Union of Shanghai Associates. ;-) >>> Gonz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 3/25/2008 10:47 AM >>> I had to replace my electric charcoal starter for my barbeque (a major food group here) recently, and as I walked through my local home improvement store, I dreaded the possibility that it would be made in China along with pretty much everything else there. When I picked it up, I turned it over and it read "Made in the U.S.A." . I almost cried with joy. I bought two.
Gonz On 3/23/08, 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... > > > William Robb > > > > -- > 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. > -- 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. !SIG:47e9139377419950413463! -- 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.
