Quit buying things made in china! - PeachParts Mercedes-Benz Forum

lietuviai · #1 09-24-2003, 10:28 PM

Quit buying things made in China! You think you're getting a good deal because it costs half as much as something made in the good old USA? You couldn't be more wrong! Nothing but crap comes from there. The crap breaks after just using it once or even you get hurt using it. I'm not just talking about tools. It looks like more and more stuff out there in the stores says "made in china." I'm tired of having to look on packages for those awful little words.
Well you say "I can't afford anything else", well it's because you buy their crap in the first place so the good paying jobs that made products in the USA are gone and so you can't get that job that paid well enough to buy American made products.
You wonder why there's so much unemployment here. It's because our good paying jobs going there and because you keep buying s#!t made there.
I quit buying their crap long time ago and all it took for me was to strip a few cheap sockets and bruise my knuckles. Show those big box stores that you won't buy anything made anywhere else but the good old USA so they'll ship all that crap back to "f"-ing china. No one says you have to buy anything!
If you want to buy something made in china, save the trip to the store. Just throw your money in the garbage. You'll do the same with that made in china POS! We've got too much s#!t going into landfills already.
So quit buying things made in China!

nthach · #2 09-25-2003, 01:39 AM

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Originally posted by lietuviai
Quit buying things made in China! You think you're getting a good deal because it costs half as much as something made in the good old USA? You couldn't be more wrong! Nothing but crap comes from there. The crap breaks after just using it once or even you get hurt using it. I'm not just talking about tools. It looks like more and more stuff out there in the stores says "made in china." I'm tired of having to look on packages for those awful little words.
Well you say "I can't afford anything else", well it's because you buy their crap in the first place so the good paying jobs that made products in the USA are gone and so you can't get that job that paid well enough to buy American made products.
You wonder why there's so much unemployment here. It's because our good paying jobs going there and because you keep buying s#!t made there.
I quit buying their crap long time ago and all it took for me was to strip a few cheap sockets and bruise my knuckles. Show those big box stores that you won't buy anything made anywhere else but the good old USA so they'll ship all that crap back to "f"-ing china. No one says you have to buy anything!
If you want to buy something made in china, save the trip to the store. Just throw your money in the garbage. You'll do the same with that made in china POS! We've got too much s#!t going into landfills already.
So quit buying things made in China!

Costco is carryingh Chinese made Cresent tool sets. Funny thing, my new Nokia phone is made in Mexico, but the battery is made in China, it should be Made in Japan.

#3 09-25-2003, 08:50 AM

why the chicken crossed the road according to Pat Buchanan:

to take a job away from a honest hardworking american.

savas · #4 09-25-2003, 11:25 AM

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...that you won't buy anything made anywhere else but the good old USA...

I assume you drive an American car?

DuckMuck · #5 09-25-2003, 12:08 PM

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Originally posted by lietuviai
"f"-ing china

very mature

lietuviai · #6 09-25-2003, 05:40 PM

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Originally posted by ilvanakis
I assume you drive an American car?

Yes I own four plus the Mercedes. I bought that just to see what the old diesels were about.

MTI · #7 09-25-2003, 05:53 PM

let's get even with those chinese, let's sell them our televisons . . uh, oh . . . okay, we'll sell them dvd players . . . hmm . . . they'll go nuts for our Nike shoes . . . shoot . . . LazyBoys! I bet they don't have LazyBoys! That's the ticket, just wait till those folks experience the joys of reclined seating.

lietuviai · #8 09-25-2003, 06:23 PM

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Originally posted by PC Dave
Thursday September 25, 10:35 am ET
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Jeans maker Levi Strauss & Co. said on Thursday it would close its remaining North America manufacturing and finishing plants, leaving nearly 2,000 employees out of work.
The job cuts and plant closures comes as the 150-year-old
San-Francisco-based company battles growing competition in a crowded jeanswear and apparel market.

It's a crying shame! I'll just have to raid the stores and stock up on whatever US made Levi's are left.
It looks like the future of the US labor market is heading toward service jobs and fast food jobs. Funding for education is being cut right and left to where only the rich will get a good education. But even a good education will not promise you a good job anymore.
You can thank all those self-serving Democrats and Republicans for the awful mess this country is in.

Next time, let's all vote Libertarian!

lietuviai · #9 09-25-2003, 06:29 PM

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Originally posted by MTI
let's get even with those chinese, let's sell them our televisons . . uh, oh . . . okay, we'll sell them dvd players . . . hmm . . . they'll go nuts for our Nike shoes . . . shoot . . . LazyBoys! I bet they don't have LazyBoys! That's the ticket, just wait till those folks experience the joys of reclined seating.

I can brag that I have a US made television set and it's 15 years old and still working FINE! Know of any chinese and for that matter, Japanese TV sets that have lasted this long?

lietuviai · #10 09-25-2003, 06:34 PM

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Originally posted by 123c
I think this thread should be closed now

Get sober first, then we'll talk.:p

Botnst · #11 09-25-2003, 06:38 PM

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Originally posted by MTI
let's get even with those chinese, let's sell them our televisons . . uh, oh . . . okay, we'll sell them dvd players . . . hmm . . . they'll go nuts for our Nike shoes . . . shoot . . . LazyBoys! I bet they don't have LazyBoys! That's the ticket, just wait till those folks experience the joys of reclined seating.

Cool wit, sharply pointed.

Nice one, MTI. I'm envious.

DuckMuck · #12 09-25-2003, 06:52 PM

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Originally posted by lietuviai
I can brag that I have a US made television set and it's 15 years old and still working FINE! Know of any chinese and for that matter, Japanese TV sets that have lasted this long?

I have a Sony 27" Trinitron television model number KV-27HFR with manufacture date January 1988...it is still running fine...

lietuviai · #13 09-25-2003, 06:54 PM

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Originally posted by DuckMuck
I have a Sony 27" Trinitron television model number KV-27HFR with manufacture date January 1988...it is still running fine...

Has it ever needed repair?

rickg · #14 09-25-2003, 07:04 PM

I'd agree with "Buy American". I'm not disagreeing with the concept. But it's just not very realistic anymore.
I would IF they ever built anything even close to my ol SD. NOT!! Last american car I bought, will be the last one I'll ever buy. POS x 100!!
And, good luck buying ANYTHING anymore that is 100% American. Better check and find out where all the parts in your Chevvies and 15 year old "american" TV came from. More like "Assembled in America".
Good luck.

Kuan · #15 09-25-2003, 07:30 PM

I have a carbon steel hammered wok which was made in China, oh, probably 20 years ago. It's just breaking in.