We ought to get Buick to close their factory in China and open one in the US.

Wal Mart, Target, Bed Bath Beyond, KMart, Linens and Things, Sports Authority (ever see China gym equipment? ha!) Office Max, Dicks, Home Depot etc. China china china.

Emerson, RCA, Whirlpool, GE, Zenith, Magnavox, Jensen, Sylvania China china china.

GE Appliance Park in Louisville. 25,000 employees in the 70s. 3,000 now. All those 'fancy' appliances are coming from...you know where. China.

My electronics come from Japan only.

Hell, I bought a $100 shirt from JCrew. Made in china. (nice shirt though)

As I've said, the US still has the same slave economy as when it actually had them on our soil, it's just that they're now out of site in other countries.

The US imports between $175 and $200 BILLION worth of products per MONTH, and you can only find a half dozen major product problems in the last few years?

On the other hand, the US food production system is apparently so bad that China and Russia have put major embargoes on imports of pork and poultry from the US for the last couple years. For a while there, the entire state of Virginia was forbidden from exporting poultry to those countries, and there are still 5 or major poultry processing plants that haven't been cleared to start exporting again.

The common factor between these two situations? Politcal posturing.

I've known for decades about the lack of quality in Chinese Products. It's no secret to my eyes. As someone in the Electronic Service Industry, I've had the first-hand pleasure of seeing this crap, comparing it with Germany, Italy, Sweden, Netherlands, Japan, etc. Shoddy workmanship, cost-cutting measures, weak parts, all in some effort to save a penny here and there. And I tell my customers, and if possible The World (though this blog) that Chinese do not have MY respect or endorsment. Also, those people that suffered Liability Suits, Death, etc. because of faulty Chinese products (you rarely hear about these things, corporations like to keep these things quiet) are plentiful and all-too common. If the public is educated enough to see that their hard-earned money is wasted on that junk, perhaps things here will change over time to a more American way of living. BUY AMERICAN! (if you can).

Cant buy American electronics anymore...

most of those Buicks are sold there. They're not exported here en masse, yet.

To do business in China, such as with cars, they need a local joint venture partner and need to have most of the cars manufactured in China.

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BMW is going to invest another 350Million dollars into South Carolina.
They're already making the X5 sport utility there.
And if the euro rises to 1.5o against the dollar- BMW will begin to lay off even more german workers and shift the 3 series and 5 series manufacturing to the states.

Mercedes already has plants in Kentucky.

Rolls Royce announced that they are laying off 500 workers and transferring the jobs to a plant in Ohio.

The U.S. is becoming europes' china.

Even in Philly you can see signs of european investment.
A German firm in managing the Comcast Tower.
And an Irish firm is making plans to build a tower on Rittenhouse Sq.

Do we really want all these foreigners investing on our native soil?

Yes. Because they will add more U.S. jobs, while at the same time europe is losing jobs because all those towers and auto plants could have stayed in europe and given jobs to europeans.
Instead an ameican worker is gonna have that construction, maintenance, accountant, security, and factory job.

Screw europe.

And I wouldn't worry about all those chinese red communists.
When the WTO forces them to re-evalute the fixed yuan currency- our goods will be even more competitive.

Screw china.

I'm a minority. And I love the U.S. Screw every other country.
We have to do what's best for us first.

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