[VV-talk] Re: <VV> Fuse Warning (non-Corvair)

[Gary Swiatowy]

Yes you gets what you pay for..............
I agree, just the tip of the iceberg.
The recent major recalls of toys contaminated with lead paint is yet another 
interesting example.
So the toys are going to be recalled.........millions of them! Then what? 
Re-sold to another country? Or disposed of? Even if they are landfilled, 
there will be lead paint possibly leaching out into our environment.
Has anyone checked or tested all the other made in China items shipped here?
Consumer goods that are painted like box fans, lamps, and just about 
everything on the shelves at Wal-Mart?
Underwriters Laboratories (UL) has for years had problems with manufactured 
goods shipped from china with counterfeit UL labels installed! Even when UL 
started using a holographic version of the labels, the counterfeiters found 
it more cost effestive to counterfeit the holographic labelling than to 
actually make the items properly. And note: UL labelling in this instance is 
fire rating for electrical parts.

How about the Chinese tires falling apart? Recall, but again, more scrap to 
be disposed of.

Free Trade with China?????? Yeah, that was a great idea?
And Wal-Mart, and other major retailers that buy into this get richer, but 
at what cost to the consumer?
What's a few lives here and there, as long as we meet the bottom line, and 
bear no responsibility.
Wonder who the actuaries were that deemed these actions cost effective?

Gary Swiatowy


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Corbin" <airvair at earthlink.net>
To: <AeroNed at aol.com>; <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Cc: "VV Talk" <vv-talk at corvair.org>
Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 12:16 AM
Subject: [VV-talk] Re: <VV> Fuse Warning (non-Corvair)


> That's but the tip of the iceberg. At the risk of getting political, the
> truth is that we flat out buy way too much stuff from China, simply 
> because
> of price. In the words of Bill Mitchell, Americans have always sacrificed
> everything for price. And since China pays such low wages (not to mention
> other factors), it can afford to ship stuff over here and STILL sell it at
> bargain basement prices. The result is that we have a horrendous balance 
> of
> trade deficit with them, and all of our money is supercharging their
> economy. And they outpopulate us to boot.
>
> As far as quality goes, China's reputation is spotty at best. Unlike the
> Japaneese, who first exported nothing but junk, then learned the quality
> lesson (and very well), the Chineese have exported enough good quality
> stuff so as not to totally ruin the entire country's reputation. YET. Just
> how it will play out in the coming years is anybody's guess. But if we
> continue to buy products from China at the same or, worse, increased rate
> that we have been, then we risk handing them all of our manufacturing 
> base.
> The result will be that we will become a third-world economic power with
> mostly only a super-rich mini-minority but the vast majority being very
> poor.
>
> As for me, I avoid buying "made in China" products as much as possible.
> Though it's getting more difficult all the time.
>
> BTW, I CC'ed VVtalk, so as to maybe move this thread there.
>
> -Mark
>
>
>> [Original Message]
>> From: <AeroNed at aol.com>
>> Subject: Re: <VV> Fuse Warning (non-Corvair)
>>
>> Jim,
>>
>> Thanks for the heads up...some things just aren't worth the low "Made in
>> China" prices, guess we can add fuses to that list.
>>
>> Ne
>
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