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I am someone who isn't exactly a big fan of free trade to began with, and when you factor in the Chinese government into the equation in light of there lack of concern regarding safety, I'm even less of a supporter of such failed and reticules arrangements. Weather it's led paint in our kids toys, the poison in our pets food, or in your oral hygiene products we use. The government of China must subject itself to what is just and what is fare. Not just for the consumer in America, but for the worker in the Chinese factory as well. If they can't get there crap together than lets yes quit buying there products. Some would counter this argument by suggesting that to do so would cripple our economy. I'd say it was dumb to get your stuff from a foreign communist regime to began with, for not just the safety aspect of the deal, but a wide and vast list of reasons.

Stuff like they conduct espionage at a level that has become more and more of a concern in the security of our country, They can't treat people fair relative not only to the insuring of the safety of there workers, but also there human rights record sucks too. Here it is that we are over in Iraq fighting for the supposed liberation and sanctity of the people over there as it pertainst to Iraqies rights. Yet in the same breath we buy from China who isn't exactly a model of fairness to say the least. That might just give the rest of the world pause to look at us as somewhat will hypocritical.

It really doesn't make any since to take and go do business with a country that practices a form of government that your country has spent the better part of half a century trying to bring down. Just stop and think for a minute would the USA ever had done business with Russia in the decades of the 50's-late 80's,or say Cuba even today. Yet we do, do business with a republic that is like the Soviet Union or Cuba communist, more over to the degree and the extent that we have with China.

I know that we're in the new global economy, but can't we at least stay a little true to the principles and idealism the make Americas, well America., Aren't we not only jeopardizing our safety but perhaps the principles and ideas that make us what we are. That's one devil of a Price to pay in my own personal opinion for cheaper crap at the retail level. I say we need a return to the Madison doctrine let America take care of America first and for most. That includes the safety and security of our country. If this is indeed such a grate and all mighty nation than let it be prov-en to be such or not. Either we'll sink or float depending on our ability to adjust, change, and adapt or not. In the end to keep tethering ourselves with other powers on the world stage, especially those that practice such a high disregard for the well being of anyone it would seem is just in a word wrong.

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