Poison toys
We can't buy cigars from the Commies in Cuba -- the only nation on Earth in which you can't -- but we sure can buy millions of toys from the Commies in China that are covered with lead paint and filled with dangerous magnets.
Re the latter, it now turns out that the Commies knew about them as early as last March: http://in.reuters.com/article/businessNews/idINIndia-28987120070815
It sure is cold comfort that the manager of one of the plants that produced playthings poisoning our children hung himself in a factory this week. Business analysts cite this as goodish news for the future of the China trade -- if Chinese executives adopt the traditional suicide because of shame from the Japanese commercial culture, maybe the poison in pet food and Dora the Explorers will not be so prevalent.
It's the one issue on which I agree with our cartoon duck Mallard Fillmore, or perhaps his creator -- it's just sick the way American entrepreneurs have abandoned human-rights and political principles in pursuit of a tainted buck.
The cartoonist tried to go for a period of time buying no Chinese-made goods and as I recall had to give up.
And everyone seems to be in a clamor to visit Commie China. I wouldn't go if you paid me to -- or rather, I would take your money and go elsewhere. Skip the grand repressors and take in Thailand -- with Malaysia, the only place in Asia I've been -- or Nepal, or Bhutan, or maybe an Indo surfing trip. But the idea of being toured around in some godawful bus through the concretized cities while being watched by the Commie watchers ... no thanks.
OK, in a stretch I'll drop by near-Commie Hong Kong for some dim sum someday. Not saying I'm not curious. I just won't bring home any Barbie dolls for the kids.
Comments
The Rose Parade float has to be natural material and no lead paint, right?
I think the toy factory guy killed himself to avoid death at a work camp or execution in a damp basement somewhere in Beijing. Isn't that the punishment for embarrassing the country?
Economic and cultural boycotts eventually worked with South Africa. Could work with China if they weren't so good at bribing wealthy America with free travel, cheap goods and high profits. Didn't the Chinese Communist Party marry into the Walton family to gain a Vice Presidency with Wal Mart?
Boycotts won't work with Cuba because what we want we can't get so long as Castro lives. Smoking cigars is about as vile as you can get, IMHO, so if you want to suck on eight inches of stinky brown thing, go visit Fidel's island to do it.
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