On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 12:53 AM, William Robb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Boris Liberman" > Subject: OT: The world is over > > > > Hi! > > > > I went today to one of the local shops to buy me a pair of trousers. > > Apparently the shelves were almost empty. So, I asked salesperson, when > > do you expect a new shipment? We don't was the answer. The Olympics in > > China are the reason. > > > > I chuckled and went out of the shop... > > I did a quick survey a while back, and concluded that it is now virtually > impossible to live > without Chinese manufactured goods, as there are, in many instances, no > options to buy non > Chinese manufactured products. > > What this means to me is that it is very difficult to not buy products > manufactured in what I > consider to be a human rights nightmare. > I prefer to support economies that are not built on slave labour, I would > rather not support > regimes that use an iron fist to squash freedom of speech and association or > legitimate protest > against the governing power. > > What this also means is that China now has the economic clout to pretty much > shut down any > country that crosses it by protesting the way it mistreats it's citizens > (the onging abuses in > Tibet as an example) by cutting off trade to that country. > > Don't chuckle too much... >
And the success of our respective national economies is driven buy the growth in China. (probably more so ours) Cheers, Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
