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Crap Tires and other goodies from China
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tomshobby
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It is bad enough that we have been filling our lives with inferior products. Tools, toys, home repair items, appliances, poison food, and car parts to name a few.
But the part that bothers me the most is what it has done to the concept of a "Strong, Independent, and Free America"
But the part that bothers me the most is what it has done to the concept of a "Strong, Independent, and Free America"
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Tom - totally agree with you there.
Some folks say that each generation since a major war has seen its values change, focusing more and more on "me" instead of "us". Lincoln spoke about that in 1838, as the second generation since the Revolution was beginning to die away.
https://showcase.netins.net/web/creative/lincoln/speeches/lyceum.htm
Respect for the values of the past was withering away. A sense of "take things into your own hands" was replacing previous respect for law and private property.
As a retired teacher, I see the great majority of young people taught by their families that the purpose of living is to buy stuff. Not to *do* stuff, but to acquire things. Make yourself happy.
Just look around at many of the people you see in the malls, in WallyMart, and on the highways. Buying stuff they think they really need, and disregarding rules of safety when they pass you at 80 in a 55mph zone, yakking on their cell.
I'm glad I won't be around in 50 years. Visions of the movie "Blade Runner" won't be visions any more.
OK - gotta go. Have to get to the mall and join the line waiting for that new iPhone.
Tom
Some folks say that each generation since a major war has seen its values change, focusing more and more on "me" instead of "us". Lincoln spoke about that in 1838, as the second generation since the Revolution was beginning to die away.
https://showcase.netins.net/web/creative/lincoln/speeches/lyceum.htm
Respect for the values of the past was withering away. A sense of "take things into your own hands" was replacing previous respect for law and private property.
As a retired teacher, I see the great majority of young people taught by their families that the purpose of living is to buy stuff. Not to *do* stuff, but to acquire things. Make yourself happy.
Just look around at many of the people you see in the malls, in WallyMart, and on the highways. Buying stuff they think they really need, and disregarding rules of safety when they pass you at 80 in a 55mph zone, yakking on their cell.
I'm glad I won't be around in 50 years. Visions of the movie "Blade Runner" won't be visions any more.
OK - gotta go. Have to get to the mall and join the line waiting for that new iPhone.
Tom
lawguy
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I have always advocated one simple rule:
Buy the best product for the best price you can find, no matter where it is made.
"Buy America" at all costs results in things like the Dodge Aspen and Plymouth Volare. Buy American when it is the best product at the best price. Insulating American companies will not help them compete.
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That being said, there are reasons beyond economics to not buy Chinese goods. Communism, oppression of their populace, religious persecution, and latent imperial tendencies come to mind.
Buy the best product for the best price you can find, no matter where it is made.
"Buy America" at all costs results in things like the Dodge Aspen and Plymouth Volare. Buy American when it is the best product at the best price. Insulating American companies will not help them compete.
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That being said, there are reasons beyond economics to not buy Chinese goods. Communism, oppression of their populace, religious persecution, and latent imperial tendencies come to mind.
Nunyas
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*sigh* I miss the old days when we didn't have open door trade policies with Communist states.
We need to get some die hard humanitarians into China to get a glimpse at these assembly plants and factories so they can cry foul and have the media and government make the general public more aware.
erm...
We need to get some die hard humanitarians into China to get a glimpse at these assembly plants and factories so they can cry foul and have the media and government make the general public more aware.
erm...
Sherlock
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Interesting thread...
Tonight I found a new classic car in the neighbourhood, a 1968 Chrysler full-size station wagon, and a very friendly lady owner of it...
As we took a closer look at the big beast of a car, we noted how so many of the design features are so much more rugged than the plastic crap of today's cars.
And that fits in so well with this discussion...
And on an entirely separate note, not photos yet (of the Chrysler) but that will be taken care of by tomorrow morning, and in the near future as well /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif
Tonight I found a new classic car in the neighbourhood, a 1968 Chrysler full-size station wagon, and a very friendly lady owner of it...
As we took a closer look at the big beast of a car, we noted how so many of the design features are so much more rugged than the plastic crap of today's cars.
And that fits in so well with this discussion...
And on an entirely separate note, not photos yet (of the Chrysler) but that will be taken care of by tomorrow morning, and in the near future as well /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif
