Blindone's Blog

“For months now we have heard the news about the products from China. Hellooooo. Anyone out there?

I think American shoppers have got to be some of the dumbest, most naive, most uneducated, most uncaring, most greedy, most materialistic.

When are you going to start reading labels? When are you going to actually 'look-up' and become concerned for your babies?”

Damn why don’t you just drop the other shoe and call everyone an idiot? Name calling isn’t going to get you anywhere! This attack on the intelligence of the American shopper kind of back fires on this individual, because I seriously doubt that they do not buy anything that is manufactured outside of the country. There are damn few things outside of food products that are made in the US today. And don’t try throwing cars at me, because they contain products that have been outsourced to foreign interests. And those like Honda, Toyota and the like that are built in the US, are not manufactured in the US; they are only assembled here: it’s no the same thing.

Besides it really isn’t a question of consumer intelligence, in as much as it’s the marketing people’s chase after the almighty profit. IF THEY weren’t so profit driven, then maybe they wouldn’t be so apt to go over seas to buy merchandise to stock their shelves.

P.S. go stuff a huge lump of dog poop in your Christmas stocking, because you deserve it! Plus I do not appreciate being called an idiot.

Actually, it’s more basic than what you have perceived it to be; the average individual regardless of who they are assumes that most other people would hold their products to the same standards of quality that they do. However, the sad truth of the matter is they other folks (i.e. Chinese manufacturer’s) do not. The labor ethic and manufacturing processes are much different over seas than they are here in America. In most cases this is partly the reason why things cost more to manufacture here in the US; it’s not JUST the labor issues that we’re all lead to believe.

So consequently when your average “Joe” goes shopping, instead of buying a brand name (which by the way doesn’t guarantee quality) he goes for the same product at the lower cost. Who can blame him? Especially in the market today with the economy taking the nose dive that it is.

For what ever reason foreign manufacturers are not held to the same standard they we are and for whatever reason, their governments do not inspect their exports as we would prior to shipping them to other countries. We have seen time and again how good s and services from foreign interests are getting out of the country of origin without being properly inspected for health and safety reasons. So who’s to blame? Certainly not the consumer and we cannot expect our customs people top become quality inspectors for everything that we import. That just isn’t going to happen.