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   dtroutma said, 7 months ago

   Libby, Montana doesn’t have a wall. Then there’s “Peanut Corporation of America”. What American companies imported from China? Ethics won’t outweigh profit on the corporate see-saw here at home.

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   oldlegodad said, 7 months ago

   Builder in VA Beach is having to “do over” 60+ houses because of the chink junk, A sub contractor cut the corners. The stuff gives off toxic sulfur compounds that corrodes electrical wires and AC coils. God only knows what it does to children.

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   believecommonsense said, 7 months ago

   The greed/profit motive is universally corrupting, I guess. Let’s see: children’s toys, infant formula, pet food, now drywall? Am I missing something else.
   China’s going to have adopt some US-style regulations.

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   ralphman said, 7 months ago

   bcs you’ve got a little off. The government in our great country needs to strictly regulate what is allowed to be imported into the US.

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   Sooky Rottweiler's ... said, 7 months ago

   Interrestingly, China seems to suffer much less from the depression than the rest of the World.

   But if dodging the recession means becoming more like them, is it worth it?

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   believecommonsense said, 7 months ago

   ralph, I don’t think it’s possible to ever be able to test every import into the US, imagine what it would cost to hire enough people to do that. So our best hope is more testing on our part and China doing a better job of policing its own because of world pressure.
   I’m not defending our FDA and other fed agencies, they’ve been effectively emasculated for the last eight years, longer, actually. The deregulation of the financial industry started under Clinton.

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   deadheadzan said, 7 months ago

   This shows a compelling reason for manufacturing drywall in this country. You would get a quality product and a lot of people would be employed. I remember when most goods were manufactured in this country. Clothes were proudly labeled “union made in the USA”.

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   believecommonsense said, 7 months ago

   deadhead, you are so right on. Our nation’s shift from being a manufacturing leader to focusing only on real estate and financial services has cost us a great deal, as is so obvious now. I heard a quote from the president of G.E. now acknowledging what a huge mistake that shift was and it can no longer be continued. In this case, I think the people of the U.S. came to that realization long before business and political leaders.
   And one p.s. I recently needed to buy a new memory disk for my digital camera. I went to the high end stores and tried to find one made in the U.S., nope, none to be had.

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   senorbullwinkle said, 7 months ago

   WHAT’S the name of that beetle eating all the trees in the east, and where did it come from, and there are weeds, and a fish in the Great Lakes we dont want. and something about a snakehead fish.
   Seems were importing are own plagues.

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    motivemagus said, 7 months ago

    Nothing new about that, senorbullwinkle. Anyone who grew up in the Southeast, as I did, knows about kudzu, which was imported to stop erosion and wound up killing forests. And of course rabbits screwed up the ecology of Australia in a big way. Etc.

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    dtroutma said, 7 months ago

    Dutch elm disease, quagga muscles, starlings, crested wheatgrass, yellow star thistle, med sage, endless lists of imported disasters.

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    WillBerry said, 7 months ago

    Of course the same people who have brought all those great ideas like kudzu (that WAS a government idea, after all), along with outsourcing, want to grow government! The Clinton (NAFTA) white house stated that the future for the United States is in the “service sector”, and that we don’t need manufacturing. Another short-sighted idea from the man who isn’t sure what the definition of “is” is. G.H.W. Bush and G.W. Bush were pushing the same agenda. So much for the “Good ol’ USA”. Try finding ANYTHING manufactured in the US today and you’ll be looking a looooonnnnnnnggggggg time!