¡Basta! Enough!

Well, I’m writing this on the fly, so hopefully I won’t end up making too many errors as I go along. But, I am highly pissed at the low quality of products we are buying from China and other places. Already the U.S. has lost way too many jobs to overseas markets, but to add insult to injury, the products we used to make here, which are now being made over there somewhere, are toxic, poorly made, dangerous or otherwise flawed.

Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle, an exposé about the horrible conditions in the meat packing industry more than 100 years ago. Too bad he wasn’t still around, because he’d have a field day writing about how we have sold ourselves down the river!

I listen to Lou Dobbs on CNN, and while I may disagree on some issues, he and I are one in this matter! As I see it, and I may be wrong, but I doubt it, you need a job in order to buy things, and if you don’t make enough money to buy well-made things, there is always someone out there willing top sell you crap. We all know who “they” are, and I, for one, have sworn off buying things made overseas.

Or, at least I think I have. But this new toxic medicine scare is enough to make me research where my medicines are coming from. I depend on several medicines to stay alive, and believe me; I am worried that somehow a poison will get into the materials used to make the meds I need to keep breathing. Does that make me angry? You bet it does!

It isn’t enough just to get angry, though. You and I need to do something loud and angry to get our government to stop the importation of cheap products with such poor (or apparently in some cases non-existent safety controls). To do that we need to stop handing our jobs overseas, because this is leading to a loss of quality, as well as the hemorrhage of money from our pockets. We can ill afford to keep this up.

Write/email people in Congress, the President, and the presidential candidates. Don’t delay: that next pill you take may be the one that kills you!

For more info on this go to: http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/05/05/asia/web0505-toxic-46350.php