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Great Link and article.

The same reason we continue to import tainted Chicken and other foods-- The Bush trade policy of FREE TRADE is MORE important then the safety of Americans. We hear that China does not have the inspection mechanism to insure the safety of their exports. It is the responsibility of the U.S. Government to PROTECT Americans and that is not taking place. Bush has CUT funding for the FDA and we have less inspectors at a time when we see greater and greater food and drug imports.

WHY are we still importing lead based products? George W. Bush.

(psst...wrong president, Col. NAFTA and GATT were signed into law by your buddy BILL CLINTON!)

(shudder!)

FS,

I can't speak to now, but as recently as 1996, we were MAKING lead based products in the US. The rubber pads on wooden crutches were being made from a plastic with a led base.

How do I know this? Did I do an expose of the crutch industry? Nope. I made these parts in a factory in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Because of the convenience of these parts, we used seconds for everything imaginable. I Had taken the handles out because of their round shape for my wife to grip when she was in labor with our oldest. When I found out the parts had led in them, we immediately took our oldest to be testeed, and she came out with a slightly elevated lead level that we quickly brought down due to rapid attention.

gene do you also blame bush for the death of the dinosaurs.

Great Link and article.

Thx! I have a younger one who enjoys those toys and still tend to put things in her mouth some of the times!

We hear that China does not have the inspection mechanism to insure the safety of their exports.

It doesn't seem that they do since a lot of their products have problems.

we have less inspectors at a time when we see greater and greater food and drug imports.

Since I've lived in this country, more than 20 years, that has been the issue. I've lived here since Reagan was president so it's been a problem all around.

I can't speak to now, but as recently as 1996, we were MAKING lead based products in the US. The rubber pads on wooden crutches were being made from a plastic with a led base.

I Had taken the handles out because of their round shape for my wife to grip when she was in labor with our oldest. When I found out the parts had led in them, we immediately took our oldest to be testeed, and she came out with a slightly elevated lead level that we quickly brought down due to rapid attention.

That is horrible!

gene do you also blame bush for the death of the dinosaurs.

I digress on that one!lol!

danielostAugust 7, 2007 03:23:32Reply #4
gene do you also blame bush for the death of the dinosaurs.

Bush watched the NAFTA policy under Clinton FAIL. He choose to expand that failed policy and made the problem twice as big as under Clinton. WHO would you blame for that?

Read THIS:

I have acknowledged that past presidents have not addressed many of the issues you mention. I NEVER said Bush started all our problems. What I said is that he has failed to effectively deal with the many issues that he was handed in January 2001. NAFTA is a perfect example. Clinton made an error with NAFTA and for eight years it clearly showed it did not help our country- Either our companies or workers. What did Bush do? Rather then look at how this failed he expanded it and made the problem (Trade Deficit & lost jobs) twice as big as Clinton.

When we were attacked and it became clear that we were in danger from foreign terrorists, rather then effectively deal with those that were responsible for attacking us, he made it look like Saddam was responsible which he was told he was NOT and took our nation into a war in Iraq that was unneeded and has resulted in getting us bogged down in a NO WIN situation. Here again Bush was warned by people with experience in that part of the world what the likely outcome would be to send American Military into Iraq. He ignored them and created the mess we have today.

Bush was handed a BALANCED Budget for the first time in decades. He immediately adopted the very same fiscal policy that started the spiral of large debt increases in 1981 which has resulted in the largest increase in the National Debt in our history.

He acknowledged the problem with our dependence on foreign oil at the outset of his first term and has produced NOTHING to make ANY improvement. In fact we are MORE dependent in 2007 then in 2001 on foreign oil.

He correctly acknowledges the long standing problem of insufficient money to pay the promised benefits to the Baby Boomers under Social Security. He appointed a panel that started out with his notion of creating private accounts which provided no solution to the issue of paying the benefits to the Boomers. In face it made the existing problem worse by diverting money currently promised to par Social Security Benefits to the boomers into the proposed private accounts. He made NO suggestion how that was to be replaced or how to provide the solution to the initial problem of not having enough money in the Trust Fund to pay the boomer benefits.

He ignored the greater problem with Medicare and then supported Part D with NO added funding to pay for the largest increase in entitlements since the 1960's. Now we have Medicare that this year will go negative and pay out MORE then it takes in because Bush added $60 Billion more in entitlement with ZERO added funding.

He has conducted a war that will cost at least a Trillion Dollars with NO funding. In all past wars we have enacted an added tax to pay the increased cost of the war. Bush added it to the deficit so we can pay interest on the cost of the Iraq War.

Every one of these situations is TRUE. They all result from the choices and policies of Bush that he got through the GOP controlled Congress. These are facts not stories to make Bush LOOK BAD!

(psst...wrong president, Col. NAFTA and GATT were signed into law by your buddy BILL CLINTON!) (shudder!)

Thanks Gideon. I accidently read the previous post and my IQ went down 10 points.

As for the article, it is a pattern.  A pattern of how CHina is staring to lose its edge (India is crowding them out along with other nations as CHina approaches industrial powerhouse), so it is starting to cheat.