Monday, May 6, 2013

May be we should stop this 'made in China' madness.

May be we should stop this madness. Think about it. Today everything you wear, use, look at (at least in my home) is made in China. And there is no end of it. China is big. B -i-i-i-g! They can and do produce EVERYTHING cheaply. So you can buy it, (can afford it, again, because it's cheap) and if you do not like it or it falls apart, you just throw it away and go and buy something else. Again, cheaply in most cases. And it's okay, really. As long as I can afford it I can buy something new all the time, use it a little bit, then buy more, more, more...
 It's just sometimes happens that you house full of junk and there is nothing you can really like or relay on because things, clothes, everything is so unreliable so... crappy, you just do not have trust in your stuff. Even furniture that should last for long time (in my assumption at least) falls apart in a year or two and you feel like somebody cheated on you big time.  Nothing really to keep, everything is just junk...
  Still as I said if you can afford to buy new things all the time it's okay, but...
  What I really-really do not like is that so many areas in Canada and others basically unemployed because there is no manufacturing, nobody produces anything. How much customer services do you need around in a small town? Not much. Not everybody can drive to a bigger town to get a job.
   I see so many people live in poverty or close to it in smaller towns in Canada and it makes me sad. May be we should close the borders to that junk  and say - that's enough. We can make plates and gadgets, dresses and furniture, pots and pans and everything else  in Canada. We do not need bring all that cr*p from China all the time. Let's produce it here, at home.
 What do you think?