Thread: Everything is made in china.....

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Originally Posted by tango

Wow I hate to think that maybe American Flags Could have been in that Box ?

Guess what: we outsource the production of US Passports to other countries.

It's disgraceful the things our government has done to us. It's not like American worker isn't competitive. Because of reduced shipping costs and increased worker productivity, unionized US labor is barely more expensive than Chinese sweatshop labor when you consider cost per unit instead of wage per hour (look at the studies of New Balance's US made shoes versus New Balance's China made shoes). The difference is in things like environmental laws. Get this - companies that make solar panels in China literally load all the toxic waste onto a dumptruck, drive the druck out just outside the company gates, and dump it all on the ground. And this is the country we decide to have free trade with?

You know how incandescent light bulbs have been scheduled to be phased out by legislation (which GE and Phillips fought for)? Incandescents are mostly made by unionized labor in the US and Canada. CFLs are made in China, and once again not because the less productive sweatshop labor by itself decreases costs, but because there is quite a bit of toxic waste produced when making CFLs and in China you can just dump it all wherever you want. The government is forcing people to buy a product they clearly don't want (CFLs have only a tiny portion of the market share even though they save consumers money in the long run, which is evidence that consumers simply do not like them) because the profit margin on producing the product is HUGE (they cost little more to make and bring to market than an incadescent bulb, but look at how much more the retail price is because they last longer under test conditions).

If it makes you old-timers feel better, I'm only 23, but don't feel too much better - most of my friends either don't care or believe the lies we are told.