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Another potential disaster

In light of this and the previous post… I’m getting more and more worried about our proclivity to outsource everything that big business thinks will save them another dime.

Now… don’t think me some kind of a China basher… My wife is Chinese… Thereby making my kids 1/2 of same… But… Isn’t China still a communist regime that we would go to war with in a heartbeat if it threatened any of our “Allies”?  Would we have allowed the Soviet Union to have as much control over our essentials?  Don’t we still complain about human rights abuses in China?… Yet… And please correct me if I’m wrong… We’ve turned over so many essentials to the Chinese and lost our own capacity to manufacture these things domestically that if… The Chinese government chose to do harm to the USA… The use of military force would be like number 10 on the list.

Lets See How Many Ways They Could Do Damage To Us:

1. 70% of our seafood comes from China… Cut it off or poison it.
2. 90% of our vitamins comes from Chinese Manufacturers.
3. 80% of our electronics i.e. TV’s, Ipods, Computers, DVD players and disks,
4. 25% of our clothing comes from China
5. 75% of everything in your average Wal Mart comes from China.
6. 50% of our steel
7. 50% of our shoes

If the U.S. and China were to become hostile towards one another… Who will suffer the most… Given the USA’s trade deficit with China… Do we even dare to cross them. .. The fact is… We could be shoeless, naked and very, very ill by the time our government even got wind that something was amiss.

It seems that we’ve outsourced …and outsmarted ourselves this time.