Cartoon by Brian Duffy Des Moines (Iowa) Register 8-21-07 .
Several weeks ago I saw the above cartoon in the Mansfield (Ohio) News Journal. It speaks volumes of the multitude of shoddy, second-rate, inferior, cheap goods coming out of the communist Peoples Republic of China. What do you expect where labor is sometimes literally slave labor?
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We, the United States, need to reassess our trade practices with this communist regime. We are actually fueling their military build-up. Allowing our multinational firms to make profits at the expense of slave or near-slave labor in China and at the expense of workers' jobs in America. I would like us to do all we can to balance the trade between our two nations and to become less dependent on China for our goods. We have given them enough.
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Personally, I have begun to look twice at product labels. I either avoid buying the product, doing without or I find an alternative to a product made in China. I purposefully do not purchase anything labeled with the hazardous warning label, Made in China!
