LA Times Op-Ed on Chinese 'Coda'

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Take a look at this and then, possibly, ask how much you've bought that's been made in China lately. I'm probably as guilty as anyone else but wow..... after reading this I may be checking labels a bit closer.

http://articles.latimes.com/2011/dec/11 ... a-20111211

I don't buy foreign products unless there's no domestic alternative. If more Americans did the same it would have a significant positive effect upon our economy; which is much more than can be said for beating drums, waving signs, and whining about the "rich."

Did you look at the article itself though? There's even more to it than that here.

Looks like it is only available in Los Angeles at present

http://app.codaautomotive.com/PathToPurchase

Once China gets serious about producing autos, it will be the end of the US auto industry.

On one side it would suck for us to lose our automotive industry, on the other - the auto war we had with Japan is a completely different case in that Japan was just ripping us off, China is not only ripping us off but funding not only most of the world security threats with that money but also growing its army that's been behaving more and more bullish with as of late - and then we want to let them in to set up factories in the US. We must be crazy.

We've largely lost our auto industry already, aside from foreign auto makers recognizing the southeast as being like the third world but closer.

I read it. It was interesting, but not particularly surprising to me. I've always more or less considered China a hostile nation.

Probably true, unless American get serious about making a really useful electric auto.

That means solving the storage battery problem. Storage batteries are too heavy for the quantity of energy they store.

ruveyn

Initially I think the idea was solving communism by stuffing McDonald's burgers under the great wall. Now, unfortunately though, it seems like the state is really getting into growing the army. Suppose its as good a time as any to start putting some currency demands on them.

Anyone who spreads fear of the Coda cannot be a friend of capitalism. Capitalism thrives on competition, and what the haters are saying is that America can only win if we give ourselves uncompetitive advantages that would never exist in a truly free market.

In a truly free market, labor standards would be determined by the free market rather than by legislative fiat anyway. Chinese labor has shown that it hungers for these manufacturing jobs more than American labor, which has grown lazy and entitled. A truly competitive American labor market would be willing to make the same sacrifices its Chinese counterpart already has: namely, lowering its squeamish limits on exposure to carcinogens, risk of loss to life and limb, and hours worked. China is willing to clog its cities' skies with smog to be competitive; America should be willing to do the same if it believes in capitalism. American workers should stop whining to their labor unions and bloated nanny state.

What's good for the goose is good for the gander. I am outraged—but because subsidies and tariffs are tools of a protectionist nanny state rather than a truly free market.

Yes, and haven't many red-blooded American corporations supplied technologies to support the "Great Firewall of China"? Clearly, Chinese authoritarianism is simply a lucrative tit from which to suckle.

When you let the state determine the winners and losers, you've already lost. Lesson learned: Let the free market decide.

Don't understand nationalism. Problem with China is human rights abuses, not that they're outcompeting Americans.

That China is out-competing America may not be a problem for the world, but it's certainly a problem for America.

I'm mostly upset that china is being paid by my own countrymen to out-compete america.

To be the next big military threat to the west really.

Nonsense. We buy their crap. Aside from that, how will they ever get paid back the money we owe them?

I'm talking about a different variety of sh&*storm first and foremost:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/ma ... ry-tension