GOP Rep. Waltz Calls to ‘Defund’ China
— If You See ‘Made in China,’ Put
It Down

Walmart keeps China in business...Blame the Big corporations... they pay for cheap labor, yet charge high prices. The consumer loses... the Big corps make Big $$$$.

I won’t buy Made In China! Ever! Junk!

The absolute worst thing Richard Nixon ever did was to help establish relations with China. Sounded good at the time but they should have been left to wether on the vine, leaving them only other commie dictatorships to trade with. They’ve now got us by the short hairs....

Nike loves their slave labor.

For most of us that includes more than half of the items in our homes. Look at the labels in stores and buy accordingly. Even Walmart is getting the picture, I see more labels from countries other than China.

Re #4 Don't forget to include their NBA-sneaker advocate, LeBron James. Slaves make his sneakers, too.

Many of the questions on Amazon products involve people asking where it is made and people who bought it are answering (it is seldom made clear on the product description). I finally found a hair dryer not made in China, but it was not easy.

Lots of Luck to you! #1 hits it squarely on the head-- Walmart is buying very cheap and raising prices on their base of consumers. Sam Walton and his priority to buy American when he was alive has been scrapped in favor of accumulating the Almighty American Dollar. Part of this is due to the higher price of trucking items on the shelves to market because of the HUGE unnecessary price of diesel fuel to get the Chinese made crap from the ports to the store. Walmart can only put items in the stores that are produced and to reduce prices, they have reduced quality by companies OUTSOURCING their products instead of making them HERE where they have to pay employees health plans, retirement plans, and having to put up with workers who have children that get sick and need a parent home with them. One specific example is when I wanted to buy a new "Revere Ware" large skillet to replace one where the teflon had gotten nearly worn off. That product USED to be make in this country, but is now made in China. The alternative product is made in Italy. Both products are more cheaply made than the Revere Ware skillet I now have, but those are now our ONLY choices.

A free press is important to keep us free. Amazon is a China distributioner who assists them in their quest to become the worlds biggest power. It is obvious that the Washington Post which is owned by Bezos is compromised. The reporters may want to write a newsworthy story but Amazon has a dog in the fight. The Post needs to be divested.

When you find yourself blaming other people for acting in their own self interest or for being "greedy" you had better take a hard look at yourself. Do you pay the kid next door $40 to cut your grass when other kids do it as well or better for $20? Of course big corporations with a fiduciary responsibility to provide maximum shareholder value will seek less costly inputs and meet the desires of the consumer market. They are reacting to investors like your 401K manager seeking to maximize your retirement and consumers who would rather pay less even with a quality concession at times. But why are those inputs less costly? Because we dared to be better, allowing the common man to seek a free market wage and in clean safe environments perhaps? The right to collective bargaining helps workers gain a market wage for their services. If you believe in that then you also must believe that you pay that free market wage they are free to negotiate. But then do you believe that the same workers should compete against child slave labor on dirt floors? Do you like clean air and water like I do? Then how can you be OK with imposing costly regulations on your countrymen while purchasing products from the foreign polluters that gladly took the larger market share due to lower input costs not encumbered by giving a whit about the environment. Do you own a Mercedes, BMW, or other European car? They you are acting in your own self interest participating in the screwing of your neighbors over the way Europe manipulates the Value Added Tax to serve as a tariff on our goods and subsidy on their goods. People will behave as people have always behaved. It is the legal and tax framework within which we do so that is behind our decline. Government has done this not your greedy neighbors as CEO's or as consumers. It does get blurred as the lines between private and public have become less and less clear as we head down the path to an unholy fascist blended relationship.

Election time is coming up so of course Waltz starts sounding like a conservative. Where in hell has he been the last couple of years.

Right on! If people don't buy the stuff and make it known, corporations will bring manufacturing back here. We might have to pay a little more for those things but most people have too much junk anyway. Keeping the money here is a way to keep us free.

We don't make anything in the U.S., so you might put it down, but you will have to pick it back up.

Also, defund Mexico. Don’t hire Spanish speaking crews to re-roof your house, or do landscaping. Hire Americans. DYI. Mexican laborers are no bargain when you consider the taxpayer funded fallout —- food stamps, WIC, low income housing, uninsured motorist premiums, strained law enforcement, crowded ERs, ESL public school students . . . . .

DIY. Sorry.

Every gadget, kitchen item, coffee mug and cheap trinket seems to be made in China. I look at labels and refuse to buy if it is something I can live without and there is a lot. I prefer to check thrift stores and garage sales for household items that were made in the USA. I have found garden tools and cake pans that were made in this country. There is much that I absolutely would rather do without than to spend my money with the enemy.

If you have any modern product in your house, especially electronic, chances are that a tremendous number of components are made in China. We have created the Devil with which we dance.

Good luck finding items with labels that don't say made in China. The only items that I know of that don't say made in China are fruit and meat products. However, I'm not so sure they're not also Chinese owned operations. China bought the company that makes Smithfield hams years ago, and they have been on a tear buying farmland here for years as well. Bill Gates might be the biggest private landowner in this country, but who's to say he isn't buying it for China.

This is only a comment about cost. I needed a special battery for my caliper digital measuring device. Walgreens had them but out of stock for $5.99 ea. I went on e-bay to find the exact one for $1.69 with free shipping but pay tax (they now charge tax). I figured I would order a spare, so I ordered two to get an even cheaper price. Total was $3.62 for two. When the two came in it proved it was two four pack cards of batteries eight batteries total. I told my wife what you think these batteries cost in China for Walgreens to mark them up to $5.99 plus tax. Cheap cost cheap labor in China will be hard to erase from our economy.

Just try to NOT buy from China. When I have a choice I eschew the stuff, but it ain't easy. BTW: Can't blame WallyMart. There isn't a store anywhere that doesn't sell the same Chinese Clap.

Done it for years. It's a little difficult at first but you get the hang of it, and shops will learn. Hopefully they will find other sources. I started long before the 9/11 attack. Soon I noticed a shop around the Flat Iron building that carried 'only made in America'! Having left NYC it's a little harder outside, but you can find 'made in America' trust me!