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- If you knew that a foreign country was dumping toxic waste into your surroundings,
Posted by brianbwb at 06:21 PM : Nov 06, 2008
Hello? Are you blaming the USA for what the CROOKS IN CHINA are doing with stuff WE THREW AWAY or EXPECTED IT TO BE RECYCLED???
You''re being pretty inconsistent with your attitude about China. When you''re buying cheap stuff from them, you look the other way about how it was made.
Then when someone SHOVES YOUR FACE IN IT, you blame Bush!!!
You need to get a grip on reality. - Reply to this comment
- To all of the posters on this thread who are more concerned with maintaining a false image of yourselves, and only to yourselves, than you are with the harm being done in our country''s name to innocent people around the world, rest assured that the false image is only believed by you.
Publicizing such practices force companies to clean up their act, repatriate, or close, which helps more people than it harms. - Reply to this comment
- When did China become a "poor country"? I guess I missed that one.
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- "Stop pretending to be stupid like you didn''''t know this." Posted by txgrouch2007
Tex, there is a hope. You may not be getting this in the US, but countries around the world are banning Chinese foodstuffs, and animal feed because of a chemical called melamine, used to fake a high protein content, but causes severe kidney damage when consumed, hundreds of babies have dies, thousands are in hospitals, the official in charge of food safety inspection has been convicted and sentenced to death.
Meanwhile everything containing milk, eggs, egg powder, even potato flour is being pulled from store shelves around the world, even companies like Nestle are affected.
Countries are learning that cheap isn''t cheap when lawsuits and lost sales are destroying their profits, so I think that soon we will see a serious slowdown in business investment, even a repatriation of businesses, until China gets it together, which won''t happen overnight. - Reply to this comment
- I agree with pjd4900 and others. After Charlie Gibson''s condescending talk with Sarah Palin, and the way Katie Couric excessively drilled her and looked so hateful at her during the whole session, CBS can go to hell!
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- Remember how old "Danny Boy" Rather used to sign off with "COURAGE"? Looks like some of his CBS vassals didn''t get the word; they cut and run even before their blood was spilt. Of course if they were gunning for Bush or rooting for BO they would have had shown more of that "COURAGE" (aka "BIAS") and stuck to the story like a dog on a bone. Are the "Chickens Coming Home to Roost?"
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- "...Why does CBS & 60 Minutes have to travel all the way to China just to report on an issue that makes the US look bad...?" Posted by kpreston11
If you knew that a foreign country was dumping toxic waste into your surroundings, and you knew that the toxicity caused birth defects, death, and made your environment such that you could not even drink water safely, would you care about the offending country''s false self image?
Conversely if you were the offender, do you claim right to protect a false self image by suppressing the information?
At least you show a modicum of sense to know that this is wrong, and it makes the perpetrators look bad, but this is almost nothing compared to the Austrailian-US operation at the Freeport mine in Indonesia.
These are the so-called "freedoms" that Bush says other countries hate us for. - Reply to this comment
- Gotta laugh at the liberal cavalry charging in to save these poor Chinese dudes. For all their good intentions these workers will now be begging for food rather than trying to make some money. Gee thanks.
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- I guess Scott Pelley isn''t admired in China anymore than he is here in the US of A. Gee, Scott did those dirty old ******** treat you mean and take your camera? It''s called Communism, Scott. I thought you progressive TV journalist had a more compassionate view of those totalitarian countries. But don%u2019t worry Mr. Pelley, with Barack and his comrades in control of our once great country, we will be just like China in the not too distant future.
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- Gotta laugh at the liberal cavalry charging in to save these poor Chinese dudes. For all their good intentions these workers will now be begging for food rather than trying to make some money. Gee thanks. It''s time for 60 minutes to go out of business.
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