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Comment by Donna — May 9, 2007 @ 7:01 pm

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I would like to re-phrase that :)

If I were the President of the US, I would tell the Chinese Abassador: Something needs to be done, and done quickly. My subjects (the people of the USA) are getting nervous and restless, and due to that (juicy expression) internet they have access to information - sweeping situations like that under the rug is not longer as easy as it was some time ago.

Now the problem is that those subjects, regardless of my excellent spin meisters, are threatening to *not buy* any stuff from China any longer and that now is a problem. People talk, you know. Gossip and internet are the worst enemies of a well-oiled governmental machine.

I don’t have to tell you, Mr. Ambassador-from-China, what it means if only a percentage of those few misguided panicky pet-people refuse to buy ‘China food items’. Even *I* am getting those emails and letters from my subjects *threatening me* to not longer buy anything with the print ‘Made in China’, even my Congress is getting frisky.

So do something, and do it quick. Can’t you throw a few people into jail, and leak that to the media?
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What I learned during that 8-weeks-and-counting food scandal is:

Nobody in the Government or BigBusiness gives a [beeeeep] about our pets, about us, our health or anything else. All they care about is profit and power (money), resp.

Therefore: hurt them where they hurt most, in their pockets.

How about a ‘My pet and I paid a high price already’ one day no-buy.

Don’t buy anything: no gas, no food, no nothing. For one day. And let them know about that day.

That will send chills down their spines.

The great wall of China is littered with the rotting flesh of our pets and now even the fish glow melamine and schools of it are swimming ashore in San Francisco.

Don’t buy their crap - not any of it - hit them where it hurts!

And I hope someone, somewhere asks the FDA employees on the ground what they feel is needed to get the job done. They’re the people who would know.

—He has appointed a “Food Safety Czar” who thinks our food is “probably safe”, at least until we get a spike of unexplained health problems.

—Top FDA commissioner (and Bush political appointee) Andrew C. von Eschenbach could tell his subordinates to reveal the mystery company that bought the contaminated rice protein and the companies selling the contaminated pork, chicken and fish. Hasn’t happened. Instead, the FDA is treating this information as though it is “classified”—too dangerous to reveal to the public it is protecting.

Don’t wait anymore for Mr. Bush to solve this—actions speak louder than words.

As for Bush telling the Chinese Premier we are going to boycott Chinese goods—that won’t happen because:
(1) we’ve outsourced too much manufacturing and agricultural production; the infrastructure is gone. We physically can’t produce all the stuff we consume.
(2) our economy runs on cheap imports made with cheap labor. Source those at home and we’ll have inflation. That is political suicide.
(3) China owns most of the ballooning debt that financed the Iraq war. We’re in no position to tell them what to do; for the first time in decades, it’s now the other way around.

I’m not posting this to start a political feud; I’m hoping people will direct themselves towards useful action instead of wishful thinking. This is not going to make our pets safer. The U.S. is in debt to China and we can’t manufacture what we consume; so talking about “banning Chinese imports” is like talking about solving global warming by putting refrigerator ice cubes in the ocean.