Producing A Generation of Air-Heads Or Is It Heartless Greed?

by Carrie K. Hutchens

It's bad enough walking through China-Mart, I mean Wal-Mart, trying to find something that isn't made in China, when you have a fondness for buying American made products, but that bad has gotten even worse.

China's products made our pets sick. Then they made our kids sick. Now information is coming out that medicine (or the ingredients) are also coming from China? Whose air-head idea was that one?

I cannot believe that people in the power think it is a good thing to out-source our jobs to places like China. We take away jobs here to get products cheaper so the now unemployed workers will be able to afford them? Guess that makes sense to someone, since that is what it looks like is happening. But it doesn't make sense to me. I see it as a deadly game. I see it as offering our citizens up for the sacrifice and slaughter for the almighty dollar or some silly idea of how if we give them all our work and our money -- China might like us and be nice.

KMBC has an interesting article on this matter, "China Makes Many Drugs Sold In U.S. - Blood Thinner Heparin Linked To Deaths" (Kansas City, MO - POSTED: 4:50 pm CST February 21, 2008. UPDATED: 9:57 pm CST February 21, 2008). An article that should be an eye-opener to people who are naively thinking the high standards for our meds, food and products are still in place.

I, too, feel that China isn't all that concerned about it's own citizens. It's irrational to think they are going to be overly-cautious with products for us and give all the sub-standard to their own. So the question becomes, "Why in the world would anyone in this country think they would be more concerned about us -- a people that they seem to merely tolerate for the opportunities, money and jobs they can take at our expense?"

I'm not sure if we produced a generation of air-heads or simply one with some pretty heartless and greedy people, but the craziness of this all ought to be getting pretty obvious to the American people. Made in China products should no longer be considered a mere annoyance. It should be taken for what it truly is -- a matter of national security! A matter of China destroying America by America's own defect -- air-heads and the heartless greedy!

We teach our children that they should say "no" to drugs. Maybe we should teach our society to say "no" to drugs from China. Maybe we should go one better than that. Maybe we should say "no" to anything made in China and to the stores that overwhelming sell their products rather than Made in the USA ones. Maybe it is time for our voices and our concern to be heard and responded to.

As consumers, we do have the power to make a difference. A difference the air-heads might not grasp, but the heartless greedy will be scrambling to get the profit margin back up and that is to our advantage. I think it is about time we take advantage of that advantage and stop the China frenzy. Stop the dangerous imports that threaten our lives and our livelihood, and the dangerous export of our jobs that threaten to totally destroy our economy! It's time to take our market and, therefore, our country back! It's past time to say "NO" to China and "YES" to the USA! Why not say it today?