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To: TobagoJack who wrote (22087)	9/7/2007 12:18:12 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 217657

You're completely missing the point, again. That article is from the New York Times, which is the most respected and influential newspaper in the US. And they're not reporting what I think, they're reporting on a national trend among the educated upper and upper middle classes. Not just conservatives, but also liberals, and lefties, and greenies. It puzzles me, and not just me, it's a topic of note among public commentators, that Chinese think this is all political, and all about trade wars and silly stuff like that. Point is, cheap Chinese goods were acceptable when we thought they were safe, and now we don't, and the Chinese destruction of the environment was acceptable when we thought it was limited to China, but it's not, and so forth. Maybe a sign of maturation of US economy, like the European economies and the Japanese economy are maturing. Young people just starting out in life have fewer economic choices, older people with good jobs have more choices, and prefer good value for money even if the goods are more expensive. As for Chinese made cars -- who knows? But not any time soon. I mean, China can't even get it together in time for the Olympics, when they'll be under global scrutiny. PRC has its head up someplace dark.

To: TobagoJack who wrote (22087)	9/7/2007 9:51:53 PM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217657

>>you will be riding in mostly made-in-china made vehicles soon enough<< China needs to perfect the art of making toy cars first! All these shiploads of goods rejected by Toys-R-Us don't look good on the resume. The beleaguered officialdom needs to dispatch an army of students around the world to learn modern quality control methods.

To: TobagoJack who wrote (22087)	9/10/2007 5:54:25 AM
From: Dr. Voodoo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217657

yes, it will be made in china... by GM.... it will be called the "buick lacrosse", it will be populated by a chain smoking cell phone toting middle aged man who drives in all lanes avoiding all traffic laws engrossed in making a delivery of some such...and otherwise pissing off all westerners "needing to be somewhere by 3 pm." What she fails to realize is that: Chinese toys and all manner of crap (to paraphrase from George Carlin about the box that it goes in)... was purchased by an American buyer not from a single orderly factory churning out Thomas Choo-Choos by the gazillion... but by dozens of unknowledgeable disordered folk buying assorted raw material that they knew nothing about... in a frantic rush to meet a delivery deadline.... pointing and screaming at each other.... none of them knowing which one laid the turd in the punchbowl. who are now spending the money on shoes for their kids, a home for their parents, and a never ending bottle of beer served up by a cute but simple minded girl who just arrived from the outskirts of town.... before the next delivery is due for the next 58 million Thomas Choo Choos.....