Issues with China made items - A rant of sorts!

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Everyone in the current debate is saying 'we need to make sure everyone has health insurance.'

How on EARTH is compelling everyone to buy health insurance going to solve this problem? Lots of folks don't buy it because it is too expensive, and this won't change - trust me, I lived in Mass and I knew a lot of folks who paid Boston's tax penalties because THEY COULD AFFORD $1000 IN TAX PENALTIES BUT NOT $10,000 PER YEAR IN HEALTH INSURANCE PREMIUMS.

That's what will happen on a national level.

We must find ways to deliver quality care at a more reasonable price. Unfortunately I'm not expecting it anytime soon.
 
Shift the Wealth

Make it illegal for any representative to hold more than two consecutive terms of office. Make paid lobbying illegal. Make healthcare, healthcare insurance and drugs, not for profit. Go paperless reporting in all healthcare and insurance claims, eliminating lost reports and fraudulent claims. Let all those CEOs, owners and investors with their cazillion dollars be divested to manufacturing, building and taking back the creative and scientific edge in design we gave up to India and China. Lazy, subsidized and complacent workers need to get the boot.
 
I certainly agree...

with representatives not having more than 2 (or even 1) term in office. I wouldn't say 'non profit' on healthcare and drugs as I've seen HUGE abuses in the so-called 'non profit' sector.

As for paperless, who knows? I myself don't want any of my medical records electronic - too easy to steal.

And I'd argue that America's high taxes (our corporate taxes are HIGHER THAN SWEDEN'S) is one of the things that is driving innovation OUT of the USA. (Our tax policies punish repatriation of money by a corporation for example. So in a large emerging market NONE of the profit will flow back to the USA).

Hunter
 
China Vs US

I remember this several years ago in the gun industry-Norinco is Chinas largest industry-besides other things they also build guns.I remember in one of my gun magazines they compared a US built 1911 Colt 45 Auto pistol to one built by Norinco-the Norinco version was actually better built and more accurate than the US Colt built model(Colt no longer builds 1911 pistols)And to top it off the Norinco model was less expensive-othe the other side of the coin there was a comparison of M14 rifles-A Norinco built one Vs one built by Springfeild arms out of Massachuesuetts.Gues what here-the US built M14 was better-but more expensive-It turns out the Chinese made Norinco M14 rifle was UNSAFE to fire becuase its reciever was not properly hardened-they guns failed when fired from machine rests.Besides safety machine rests are used to check accuracy.
So--on Chinese products you take your chances-some of their things may be excellent-while others--UNSAFE at any speed.Its to the point its impossible to avoid Chinese made products.So far I have been lucky-since ther Chinese M14's are unsafe-they are no longer imported here.An M14 is a fine rifle.Better than the AR15.
 
electronic medical records

True, we're in the age of pishing and of e-thieves.

Anyway we have our medical records uploaded and upgraded on servers. In a emergency case (touch wood !!) the E.R. doctors can access the database to be aware of allergies, blood type etc. They have just to type your own fiscal code number on a keyboard (obviously they have to be inside the national healthcare network : PWD not enough, the hardware requires a further hardware login drive. No matter I prefer better rescue than e-safety

Innovation - no more innovation in the US .... are you sure ?
Bill "ctrl+alt+del" Gates, Steve i-Jobs, Page & Brin googlemen , Mark "Facebook" Zuckenberg .... guessed they were Americans :)
 
I'm not talking about US companies...

I'm talking about governmental policies that discourage innovation. All the companies you mention are building their R&D and other facilities OUTSIDE of the US at a much faster rate than any INSIDE the US.

the USA succeeds in spite of itself. I am concerned, at this point, that our stupidity (anti freedom, anti business, anti progress, anti industry) will do us in. Have any of you heard about the proposed national ID card in the guise of 'immigration reform'?
 
Have any of you heard about the proposed national ID card in

We already have that it is called a Social Security Card
 
I have mixed feelings about the Made in China syndrome.

Back in the early 70's and 80's I was buying some Chinese made items. In these cases it was special stuff like actual China they made for the export market - some it fairly nice. Then in the 90's manufactured stuff started showing up. First, simple things like lamps and such, but I could tell that there was a good use of materials and the finish was quite nice despite the low price tag. Gradually more and more complex manufactured stuff started showing up, and now as is said it can be difficult to find many items smaller than a refrigerator that isn't made in China.

I have also noticed that it's usually a mistake to buy the cheapest item from the Made in China bin. Usually the least expensive items are really built to a low level of price/quality. The stuff is all so inexpensive that doesn't pay to save a few pennies on an item that is going to fall apart. Usually the higher priced item isn't that much more expensive but significantly better quality.
 
National ID card.

Social Security cards do not have biometric IDs in them.

This whole thing is disgusting.

And yes I do know about the magic bullet though I don't have one :)
 
Just a thought, it wasn't always about the race to the bottom of the barrel on pricing. Remember, It's a SONY, when you bought a Trinitron television at one time it truly was, a status symbol. alr2903
 
found out in the march 14 "parade"magazine that the statue
of Martin Luther King jr.to be installed at the mall in
washington,D.C. will be made in china like a piece of walmart
landfill fodder-i consider that a national insult!
A chicom statue of M.L.K.JR..... Sheer stupidity!
 
Oh, I know! I was stunned when I heard that about the statue! There was an uproar after the 2001 terrorist attacks about American flags being imported from China because our domestic producers couldn't keep up with demand. This statue is very symbolic to our nation. How can it be any different that a Chinese-made American flag? You're right, cfz2882. It is an insult!
 

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