Dave Hinz wrote:

Seems to me we need to revoke China's most favored trade nation status
which, if I recall correctly, was a kickback from Clinton in exchange
for some campaign contributions. They certainly aren't trading with
us in good faith; between sending us poison pet food, poison
toothpaste, toyes with lead paint, toys made of lead, and yet more
toys made with lead paint - I just don't see that they're someone we
should actually be trading with at all, let alone giving preferential
treatment to.

It's not the Chinese GOVERNMENT that's posioning cats directly - it's the
companies, firms, and crooked individuals behind the shipments. Further,
part of the fault lies with the American firms that trusted implicitly the
declarations of their suppliers. Would you blame the U.S. government if
there was an extra inch or two on your Stanley tape measure?


That, and from a strategic standpoint, we're gonna be in a hell of a
pinch next time we go to war with them; all of the US makers of the
products they're dumping on our markets will be out of business. Try
to buy USA-made plumbing components. If you have a source, let me
know, cause all I can find locally is chinese-made **** with porous
castings.

We've never been in a war with China (Boxer Rebellion exception) and never
will be. Disruption of trade would be much more catastrophic to China than
to the US.