[TheForge] chinese steel

[Ries Niemi]

On Monday, March 15, 2004, at 10:17 AM, Ron Childers wrote:

> Ries, you forgot: China is going to shoot us with the money, scrap and 
> raw
> materials we are sending. They are even recycling our garbage. It is 
> almost
> impossible to "Buy American" any more. They are buying us because we 
> are
> selling out. Must appease the stockholders at all costs - even if it 
> is the
> future of America.
>
>

They dont have to shoot us- they can just wait a little while, and they 
will be able to buy us, or better yet,  just foreclose on all the bills 
we cant pay, and get us cheap. At a certain point, when nobody has a 
job, Walmart wont be able to sell that last 10 million of cheap plastic 
junk, and the chinese will take over walmart.

But it is still possible to buy american- it just costs more. And most 
of us arent willing to do that. I actually make an effort when I  can. 
A fair amount of my steel actually comes from nucor plants and other 
west coast mills- just because it is closer, it is cheaper, so my local 
yard buys it.
And you can buy a lot of stuff made in america- you just have to look 
at brand names. For example, Makita and Bosch make most of their hand 
power tools right in the USA. Nissan trucks are made in Tennesee. 
Michelin tires are made here, and so is Klingspoor sandpaper.
Its those squirrely foreign sounding companies you gotta steer clear 
of- Like those ford and chevy trucks that are made in mexico and 
canada, those dewalt tools made in brazil, those  goodyear tires made 
in japan, Rigid tools made in china, and like that.

ries