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Are we smarter then a monkey?
By:John Monroe
Date: 3/25/2008, 3:34 am
In Response To: Re: Other: Kayaks Made in China (Chris Ostlind)

I’m afraid human nature is the driving force behind cheap good,,,,, profits, greed and survival. The need for the second and third world nations to increase their standard of living while those that have already achieved a high standard try to hang on to it by moving their manufacturing plants overseas for cheaper production of their goods and services so they can compete with the China’s and India’s of the world. A fatal end results is global heating of the planet, as China builds one carbon admitting coal burning electric generating plant a week for the next five years, to produce even more cheap goods that ups their standard of living. In the circle of this process China loans the US the excess dollars they have from our buying their cheap goods so we can buy more cheap goods from them. This is a catch 22 if there ever was one. We are the monkey with our hand in the small neck gourd trap trying to the pull the juicy fruit (cheap goods) out with a clenched fist that is bigger then the gourd neck. Just as the monkey does we won't let go so we are trapped. In the mean time as we fiddle Rome burns (ice caps melt.) Are we smarter then a monkey?

Messages In This Thread

Other: Kayaks Made in China *LINK*
Duane Strosaker -- 3/22/2008, 11:50 pm
Re: Other: Kayaks Made in China - Rebuttal *LINK*
Bryan Hansel -- 3/24/2008, 7:57 pm
Re: Other: Kayaks Made in China - Rebuttal
Bill Hamm -- 3/25/2008, 1:04 am
Re: Other: Kayaks Made in China - Rebuttal
Bryan Hansel -- 3/25/2008, 9:11 am
Re: Other: Kayaks Made in China - Rebuttal
Bill Hamm -- 3/26/2008, 12:45 am
Re: Other: Kayaks Made in China - Rebuttal
Bryan Hansel -- 3/26/2008, 8:08 am
Re: Other: Kayaks Made in China - Rebuttal
Bill Hamm -- 3/27/2008, 7:47 am
Re: Other: Kayaks Made in China - Rebuttal
Mike Savage -- 3/27/2008, 8:49 am
Kayaks/'cycles made in China
Paul G. Jacobson -- 3/27/2008, 7:30 pm
Re: Kayaks/'cycles made in China
Mike Savage -- 3/28/2008, 11:24 am
Re: Kayaks/'cycles made in China
Bill Hamm -- 3/28/2008, 10:55 am
Re: Kayaks/'cycles made in China
Mike Savage -- 3/28/2008, 11:28 am
Re: Kayaks/'cycles made in China
Bill Hamm -- 3/28/2008, 5:40 pm
Re: Kayaks/'cycles made in China
Mike Savage -- 3/28/2008, 10:27 pm
Re: Other: Kayaks Made in China - Rebuttal
Bill Hamm -- 3/27/2008, 4:18 pm
Sad... *NM*
Dan Caouette (CSFW) -- 3/24/2008, 9:39 am
Re: Other: Kayaks Made in China
Chris Ostlind -- 3/24/2008, 7:11 am
Re: selling to China
Brad -- 3/25/2008, 8:52 pm
Re: selling to China
Chris Ostlind -- 3/25/2008, 9:10 pm
Re: selling to China
Mike Savage -- 3/26/2008, 6:39 am
Re: selling to China
Chris Ostlind -- 3/26/2008, 9:50 am
China is just people
Jay Babina -- 3/25/2008, 12:39 pm
Re: China is just people
Rob W -- 3/25/2008, 6:01 pm
Re: China is just people
Rob Macks / Laughing Loon CC&K -- 3/25/2008, 2:46 pm
Are we smarter then a monkey?
John Monroe -- 3/25/2008, 3:34 am
Re: Are we smarter then a monkey?
Bill Hamm -- 3/26/2008, 12:39 am
Re: Are we smarter then a monkey?
John Monroe -- 3/26/2008, 3:48 am
Re: Other: Kayaks Made in China
Robert N Pruden -- 3/24/2008, 8:37 pm
I still eat eggs
Paul G. Jacobson -- 3/27/2008, 9:33 pm
Re: I still eat eggs
Bill Hamm -- 3/28/2008, 10:53 am
Re: I still eat eggs
watiger -- 3/28/2008, 11:56 am
Re: I still eat eggs
Bill Hamm -- 3/28/2008, 5:39 pm
Re: I still eat eggs
charlie r -- 3/27/2008, 9:49 pm
Re: Other: Kayaks Made in China
Rob Macks / Laughing Loon CC&K -- 3/24/2008, 11:55 am
Re: Other: Kayaks Made in China
Etienne Muller -- 3/24/2008, 1:58 pm
Re: Other: Kayaks Made in China
Bill Hamm -- 3/24/2008, 12:47 am
Re: Other: Kayaks Made in China
Mike Savage -- 3/23/2008, 8:11 am
Re: Other: Kayaks Made in China
Andy Waddington -- 3/26/2008, 11:25 am
Re: Other: Kayaks Made in China
Kim -- 3/23/2008, 8:49 am
Re: Other: Kayaks Made in China
Kim -- 3/23/2008, 12:22 pm
Re: Other: Kayaks Made in China *NM*
Mike Savage -- 3/23/2008, 12:35 pm
Link doesn't work for me! *NM*
Glen Smith -- 3/23/2008, 2:00 am