Have We Closed The Borders Yet?

The original, red, pistachios never had ants ... they were salted.

Actually, they had red ants, and the urine from them is what gave them their distinctive red colour and salty flavour in the first place. You never saw them though, 'cause they hid inside the shell.

I wonder if China has any concerns about the quality of our oil.

When I was in Superstore last weekend, I started looking twice at some of the products on the shelves.

However, since watching the news, I've learned that only if 51% of the production of a product is in Canada or the US, then the label is marked....made in the US or Canada.

"I wonder if China has any concerns about the quality of our oil."

The quality of African and Iranian oil more likely.

You might want to take a closer look at what China is up to in Africa these days. It isn't the nasty colonial imperialist white man doing the exploitation anymore.

In fairness, the number one problem for the Chinese is cultural: it sounds almost like a cliché but they just can't stand to lose face. And not being an open, democratic society, it's just that much easier to cover things up.

They'll eventually have to get over that big time if they don't want to queer their business reputation and bugger their economic progress.

Of course we haven't closed the borders. That would be racist and xenophobic. ;-)

Time to bombard the government to stop all foodstuffs, raw materials for toothpaste etc. from the horrifying place called The Peoples Republic of China.

WHAT'S THE HOLD UP? WHY THE KIDD GLOVES APPROACH?
WHAT THE HELL DO WE OWE CHINA?

Reading labels tells us only part of the story.
Such terms as bottled or packaged in Canada, or printed in Canada on a package and listing ingredients tells us nothing about the source of raw materials.

Bottom line, can't trust anything coming out of China.

WHERE'S MO STRONG HIDING OUT ON THIS ONE?

I think we may have just uncovered the reason why many things from Red China are so cheap. Slave labor and poisonous ingredients.

Caveat frickin' Emptor.

No wondering now why Chairman Mo came back to the US for medical treatment....as for the quality of Canadian goods being questioned by China why do we do business with these swindling skanks?...stop the subsidized wheat shipments now so they can get "quality" wheat from...er...maybe Uganda or Cuba or Chavezland some place like that that still trades with them?

Friggin' cheats and scum the lot of 'em.

China is not a friend.
China is a wolf in sheep clothes.
Does this change anything? Not a bit.
Everyone will be still buying their cheap stuff.

I once asked a very conservative crowd if they were fine buying specific made in China product, knowing that the money would be used to suppress freedom of speech, religion, and building missiles pointed at America. I was bashed as a hypocrite because I was known for buying several items of that product made in the CCCP during the 2nd world war. If it's cheap, we'll buy it regardless. Puke!

...The point here, I feel, this is not totally the fault of the Chinese. Look in the mirror.

Whether the product is made in China or India or Bongo-bongo, the demand for cheaper goods drives capitalism.

For capitalism to survive there has to be a cheap factor in the equation, and a buyer willing to purchase it.

Theoretically capitalism should weed out the bad and retain the good -can't keep screwing your customers forever.

Unfortunately because governments are mixed into the equation, the balance cannot be restored as fast.

So one part can be blamed on us for not adhering to "Caveat Emptor" - an axiom or principle in commerce that the buyer alone is responsible for assessing the quality of a purchase before buying.

Or you get what you pay for.

The other, and larger part of the blame, can be rested on the breakdown of Government regulatory bodies due to mismanagement and greed.

The result of tainted goods making its way into our homes or more dangerously into our food supply chain cannot be fixed overnight.

This will take a strong regulatory body govern by western ethics and morals, which seems to be in short supply at the moment.

Also remember, money is not evil, but the love of it is, (albeit we'd all love to have more money).

;-)

A good discussion is going on over at Drudge regarding capitalism.

http://www.drudge.com/news/94911/global-capitalism-could-destroy-itself

"Whether the product is made in China or India or Bongo-bongo, the demand for cheaper goods drives capitalism."

You mist've been brushing with Chins\ese toothpaste during your economics 101 class TOMAX

Demand drives the free capitalist system and competition drives the market...better, faster cheaper....not shoddy, poisonous, cheaper.

...speaking of Eco101 WL,

"not shoddy, poisonous, cheaper"

- has been a hallmark of North American cars n'est pas?

Sorry, you were saying?

Tomax, are you seriously expecting the customer (us) to conduct chemical analysis of Chinese food? I thought that we paid taxes to the government to establish the standards for labeling and selective testing for adherence. Then stop charging friggin taxes!

Aaron, something about Ralph Nader.

"- has been a hallmark of North American cars n'est pas?

Sorry, you were saying?"

....yes and the market responed how? With buying better faster cheaper Jap or German cars...the market dynaic is linear and constant. Competition filled the demand.

And we need China why?

China is up to something and we need to ibestigate this their out to wreck our nation just like most liberals are trying to do and just like the eco-freaks are trying to do

Well Aaron, that's the trouble with Big Government isn't it? Regulate everything in the name of safety, tax the hell out of us to pay for it, but don't deliver the goods.

The inspection system depends on honest vendors who comply with regulations. Faced with dishonest vendors who deliberately circumvent regulations, the desk pilots have pulled a duck and cover.

One does not advance in a bureaucracy by doing one's job, one advances by making life easy for the boss. Discovering shipload after shipload of dangerous merchandise doesn't fit in the successful career path. Therefore dangerous merchandise is only discovered in -small- quantities.

Which is why smaller gubmint is the way to go.

"yes and the market responed how? With buying better faster cheaper Jap or German cars"

...umm no on the cheaper part.

Only last year Toyota outsold Ford and maybe in a couple GM, but this is after what how many years of shoddy NA vehicles?

http://www.npr.org/news/specials/gmvstoyota/

Oh, BTW, I remember the Toyota's of the '70-80's - they sold because they were cheap, and cheap on gas, not because they were faster and/or better built than exploding pinto's.

...anyway, I'm off to Red Deer driving in my 1994 North American 3.8L Bonneville.

That is after brushing my teeth with Crest...

;-)

China and Russia are snakes in the grass and would like nothing better than to turn the whole world into a Communist Regime.

But, help me out here, exactly what is that big Canadian Automobile Manufacturer's name ?
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We're really having a wild time here in the civilized Democracies trying to fend off those who want to take us over. It's a race between the Commies and the Muzzies.
We, like stupid suckers keep on dealing with them and bringing them into our countries.

There is mounting evidence we are now starting to pay the price.
England has reached it's saturation point through stupid immigration of people who have ulterior motives beyond just being good citizens contributing to the country.
Some problems are coming from so-called home grown
residents but most are from one element of the population whose radical religious teachings spawns hatred and terror, the root of the scourge of the 21st century.
Lest we forget 9/11.

Thats the way tomax7 keep the cavity creeps away

pun - "if an automobile is shoddy its real easy to tell. it wont start, run, chocked full of rust holes etc"

ummm...no. Show me a new NA car fitting that description. They all look shiny.

Ford comes to mind, tires, rollovers etc.

"dont try to equate capitalism with unfettered absence of ethical/regulatory inhibitions"

Umm, true capitalism has no ethical/regulatory inhibitions, that is why we have laws and standards in place.

We are not a true capitalist society, but that's what this blog stream is discussing about, it is about the Government failing to close the border on Chinese goods.

Basically BSD in reverse.

spur "...keep the cavity creeps away"

...i dont' want to hear the word cavity! Actually just got back from the dentist.

$500 later for cleaning, x-ray and two small fillings in some obscure Latin named part of my two molar teeth.

Plus the freezing hadn't kicked in enough. I'm glad I brought a coin pouch with me to squeeze so I wouldn't accidentally do reflex action and TKO the dentist...