September 24, 2012
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WAKE UP FOLKS!!!!
‘If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand’…..Confucius
You walk into a Walmart and the first thing you see, after you pass the atrophied door greeter, are the long lines. First at the indoor McDonalds, and then lined up at the few checkouts they allow to be open, with lines backed up to the lampshade department. But, there is another line…..CUSTOMER SERVICE. Here you will find the multitudes returning their poor quality items of substandard workmanship. It’s called The Great Line Of China! Missing or broken buttons, video cameras that don’t video, zippers that don’t zip and pet food that causes Fluffy’s fur to change color. A typical day in the Walmart trenches. You make the long walk back to the electronics department to see if they have the new 55 inch 3-D Kaimy Television from the mainland of China. There you see it on display all shiny and luminous in it’s plastic enclosure. You ask the clerk if they have had any complaints on it and he responds by telling you to make sure and purchase the additional warranty that’s available and then they suggest a nice Korean made Blu-ray DVD player.
I know, we’re all sick and tired of all these tirades about inferior Chinese products and the bellyaching about manufacturing jobs being siphoned from this country and infused into Asia. Most Walmart shoppers had rather talk about the Kardashians or last night’s American Idol while patiently waiting in line. Do Walmart shoppers even know that currently, 75-80% of all the items they buy in Wally World are manufactured by fly by night companies operating along the Yangtze River? That 24 million lucky folks are joining the Asian labor force every year? For China today, exports represent about 40% of their GDP, which means that in just a very few years, they will be the most dominant and powerful financial force on earth. They currently are the number one exported of goods in the world as well has maintaining the largest standing army on the planet, (just threw that in).
The land of the free has turned into a land of the fleeced, who are marketed and influenced by foreign made products which lack desired quality and fail in comparison to the products we once made ourselves. I guess we need to live with the reality that we must accept Chinese products. We, as a people, don’t seem to care any longer and as such, have allowed manufacturing to leave us in the economic dust. We do not have it in our character anymore and have no determination to defend what was once great in the USA. Americans standing up and boycotting Chinese or any Asian made products is no longer a reality. There was a time, when we as a people, would have stood up….but, those days are long gone. Sad thing is, the customer still has it in their power to do something…..just not the will.
Charlie
Comments (6)
And have you noticed how much bigger they’re making our shopping carts these days? Now, I wonder if I could get myself a bunch of Made in America labels for my knitting, and sew em on, and use it as a selling point. Hee hee!!!
@spinner_mom Now ya got a point there.
Granny stares down at the ground and can not look Charlie in the eye.
UmmmErrrrGranny is so guilty for shopping at Walmart and buying from Dell.Granny is so bad.Granny walks slowly out of the room, leaving a small fart before she exits.Now that fart is American made.
Sad ain’t it
They already believe that Mandarin should replace English as the international bues language.
I despise the current administration; but in spite of that vowed to vote for him if he followed up on his tough talk in the early days. Talk talk talk same old crap.
There are many jobs available that Americans will not accept because they don’t pay enough or they are “beneath” them. If the unemployed would take some of these jobs, the unemployment numbers would go way down very quickly! A boycott of Chinese or other Asian goods must be accompanied by an acceptance to make the goods in this country!
I like Ruth’s take on this. No American farts ever come from China- at least directly.