Yes but people in poorer countries can now afford things like radios
and bicycles because they're made in china. $20 vs. $100 US is a big
difference in affordability when you make two dollars US a day. I
saw some fairly decent $30 bicycles in a carrefour market in Shanghai.
Because they're $30 and not $100 a lot more people in Asia, Africa,
Latin America can afford one. That people in countries like the US
are buying it too is to our advantage. If we didn't they could still
sell it there and we'd pay many more times for the same utility.

On Sat, 28 Feb 2004 09:20:29 -0500, "Pierre L"
wrote:


"B Banton" wrote in message
.. .

Pretty soon we'll have radios from China. Same idiot conservatives
that are buying them are screaming about NAFTA. Oh my my...!!


It's our rich industrialists in collaboration with our governments (US,
Canada, and others) that have been pushing free, globalized free trade over
the objections of the public for years now, and they were all falling over
each other trying to get an advantage over every other western country in
trade with China. I always thought it was a bad idea, but since that's what
"they" want, I'll be darned if I won't take advantage of it now to get more
for less, now that China is producing good stuff at ridiculously-low prices.
It's a vicious cycle.

Pierre