Trade Deficit Grows While China Kills Us Literally With Their Goods

China products choke, burn, drown, drop, trap Americans:

WorldNetDaily"WASHINGTON – It's not just Chinese food and drug imports that can kill you.

Many of those bargain-priced products you pick up at Wal-Mart, Target or Sam's Club could do you in, too.

Imports from China were recalled by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission twice as often as products made everywhere else in the world, including the U.S., a WND study of government 2007 reports shows."

That's not good news now is it? Why don't we see Dateline NBC, the New York Times etc doing segment after segment of these kinds of stories. No bleed no lead, that's why. Were however these products American made you could bet the pages of the Times and other lib rags would be filled with accusatory anti American business mumbo jumbo.

Of the 152 product recalls announced by the commission since January, 104 have been for products made in China. They include:

• Portable baby swings that entrap youngsters, resulting in 60 reports of cuts, bruises and abrasions;
  
  
• Swimming pool ladders that break, resulting in 127 reports of injuries, including leg lacerations requiring up to 21 stitches, five reports of bone fractures, two back injuries, two reports of torn ligaments and eight sprained ankles;
  
  
• Faulty baby carriers that result in babies falling Faulty baby carriers that result in babies falling out and getting bruised, getting skulls cracked and hospitalizations;
  
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Looks like we're getting what we pay for, garbage in garbage out as they say. Cheap goods are -exactly what they are, cheap. Then what should we expect when these goods are assembled and made by people that are payed nearly nothing to provide their services.

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