Friday, May 24, 2019

Trade War--Right for Wrong Reason?


This photo illustrates something never mentioned in the discussions of Trump's Trade War: 1)The coffee carafe bought a couple years back has a broken spring in the small handle that allows the liquid out. 2)The bath poof, barely 6 months old, is pulling out of its center sewing. 3) The egg slicer barely a year old, has two broken wires. (I had one in my Denver kitchen for 15 years). The cute little carrot-marker I bought for the garden got a chip in it before it even got to the garden!

The people discussing the trade war are fond of citing cheap products as an advantage. Are they? Many are made of plastic and tons we are importing from China are filling up our landfills, fouling the ground water--which is now the drinking water in most Iowa cities because the surface water is tainted with nitrates.

It was stupid to buy these shabby products, but a trade war that slows them down inadvertently benefits us all!

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