Comments on: China Closes 180 Food Factories

Inspectors Discover Use Of Industrial Chemicals In Products Such As Candy, Seafood

[rushlimpdrug]

Last year the grandparents bought a bicycle for one of the kids from Costco. Of course, it was made in China and of course it didn't cost a lot. But you know something? That bike has lasted. . . . . the construction is top notch. All the welds were picture perfect, everything is aligned, and it's a very intelligent design.
. . . . . . . That is what the US workers need to be worrying about.
Posted by tmittelstaed

The Chineeze know bicycles. That has been their mode of transportation for decades-remember?
Your kids will grow up and worry about the lack of this country producing anything of value.
They are the ones that will look back and wonder why their grandparents supported outsourcing while the parents bragged about it.
Don't worry though China is our friend.
They are on the track to be a democracy, right?

[bareemperor]

...and CBS - c r a p - shoot is an American term for gambling. Your corporate concern over censorship is stupid. The shift to Bu$h-style Victorianism is shameful. Why don't you report on crucial things, like what an idiot our president is, or how our own vice president can rule this country from a bunker, sending thousands to their deaths to ensure high profits for his favorite defense contractors...

[bareemperor]

I will pay more to purchase American or European made products. While some Chinese products are manufactured to high-quality standards, it's a ***-shoot finding those among the rest of the $hitty stuff...

[omega39-2009]

The unabashed free traders are learning first hand why the regulations they so despise were enacted in this country in the first place.

[gaye5]

The Queensland State Government in Australia bought water pipes from China to be able to take water over a massive distance, but unfortunately the one hundred million dollars pipes are unusable.. .
In Australia we dont have to check upon production of materials as manufacturing companies have to produce articles to a manufacturing standard, thus apparently once the order was placed in China they were not checked up on...
Other manufacturers have brought Stainless steal from China which turned out to be a very low grade of stainless steal thus quickly rusted..
It is great to help other countries but not at our expense..

[tmittelstaed]

Last year the grandparents bought a bicycle for one of the kids from Costco. Of course, it was made in China and of course it didn't cost a lot. But you know something? That bike has lasted. I looked it over very carefully and while it's obvious it was made on an assembly line, the construction is top notch. All the welds were picture perfect, everything is aligned, and it's a very intelligent design.
And it's not just kids toys, I'm seeing this in my job, dealing with industrial electronics products, many of which while they may be designed in the US, or have parts designed in the US, are made in China. China has good and bad manufacturers and the high end product manufacturers have figured this out - if you spend more money on a product, you can get a better one made in China if you know who to talk to.
I can forsee a time not very far off when it isn't just manufacturing that will have moved to China, it will be design as well. How can you possibly have designers sitting in front of CAD systems in an office building in the US be able to do as good a job as designers sitting in front of CAD systems in China, 500 feet away from where the machines are actually cranking out the product being designed on those CAD systems? That is what the US workers need to be worrying about.

[nskduke]

Kommoncents is right. Look around you a lot of the stuff you have was made in China. Wal-Mart is part of the problem because almost everything they sell there comes from China. Ever since Bill Clinton open up trading with China, retailers like Wal-Mart have switch from selling US products, to selling products from China. Over the past decade US stores have been going out of business because they can't complete with the low prices Wal-Mart has to offer.
Stop buying products that are made in China and stop shopping at Wal-Mart. We don't need any more problems in this country.

[gkc99]

Between the Bushes and the Clintons, the give-away of US manufacturing and technology to Asians for cash is a clear case of treason. They're not the only traitors here though--many US based industry groups, including Congressionally chartered organizations like the American Chemical Society have supported policies that have facilitated the giveaway, bringing millions of Asians to the US on H1B visas, to train them to take these industries back to their own countries. The multinational owners do very well. Too bad about the US worker.

Now we see the harvest of these exportations--faked research, contaminated products, falsified analysis, payoffs, Canadian complicity in importing poisonous goods (Canada sells citizenships to Asians for nothing more than cash), and the whole sorry litany.

Thanks Bushes. Thanks Bill. Where is Hilly on all this? Quiet as a little church mouse.

[harp1963]

What should we expect from a country that uses slave labor? These poor b a s t a r d s probably wouldn't open their mouths if they were pouring plutonium into the food products they were making. Thinking or disagreeing isn't part of the labor culture in China.

Chinese worker: Excuse me Mr. Supervisor, I noticed plutonium being put into the corn flakes.

Mr. Supervisor: You don't tell us how me make corn flakes...ten years in re-education camp for you, with regular beatings everyday.

[incog-nito]

Go ahead and blame the Chinese. Good luck with trying avoid Made in China products. You're barking up the wrong tree. Of course their standards are lower than the U.S. It's always been that way. The difference now is that the U.S. doesn't have much of a manufacturing base anymore. Why? Because U.S. corporations have decided to move their operations to China or import stuff made there, PRECISELY because of the lower standards there. So if you're going to blame someone, blame the U.S. businesses who operate in China or import stuff made there.