View Single Post
  #13   Report Post  
Posted to rec.crafts.metalworking
Larry Jaques Larry Jaques is offline
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 5,154
Default shocking product from China

On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 13:58:09 -0400, the infamous "Ed Huntress"
scrolled the following:


"Doug Miller" wrote in message
...
In article , Tim Wescott
wrote:
On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 10:33:45 -0500, Jon Elson wrote:


There are **NO** regulations in China. Haven't you been reading the
news? They feed their own kids seriously tainted milk! Antifreeze is
used as a sweetener in toothpaste, permitted by LAW! They use lead-based
paint on toys sold to the US.

Where have you been?

Jon

They have regulations, they just ignore them if it'll make money for the
friends of those in high places (see "Bush Administration").


Conveniently ignoring the fact that it was Bill Clinton, not G.W. Bush,
who
ensured that China was awarded "most favored nation" trading status...


Which is why genuine economists consider Clinton to be an economic
conservative. He bought almost the whole program: "free" trade,
deregulation, limited welfare, balanced budgets, inflation-fighting, and so
on. He was a Washington Consensus guy, from NAFTA to the IMF and the World
Bank.


kaff


Bush is, too. The difference is that Bush doesn't have a clue about how the
pieces are supposed to fit together. No Rhodes Scholar he, Bush just follows
the economic programs he's told.


I'd be willing to bet that most of our Presidents have -not- been
Rhodes Scholars and have pretty much just listened to their economic
advisors all along.

Shrub is Shrub; no further comment is necessary.

================================================== ==========
Help Save the Endangered Plumb Bobs From Becoming Extinct!