One Way Or Another (Previously Posted)

Tainted milk, lead paint on toys and now drywall from China. Who said anything about military might. A much better way to conquer a foe seems to involve an exchange of money. We send China money and they send us products that either kill, maim or require large expenditures of money to protect ourselves from them. Our consignment stores will no longer be allowed to sell used toys because they aren't able to afford to test each toy to declare them lead free. Consumers will have to pay top dollar for new toys that have been tested by a larger government regulatory agency. I don't know why I haven't heard about this story on the national news, but in our local community homeowners have had to move out of their homes because of a putrid odor and failed metal devices. It seems the cause of both of these is drywall from China. The sulfur compounds in the drywall cause copper piping to turn black and also to erode metal. Air conditioning units fail, parts (evaporator coils for example) are replaced, fail again, are replaced and fail again. Electrical wiring is also subject to this extreme failure. No one knows the long term health effects from the stench and the resulting respiratory distress. I guess sooner or later many government agencies are going to be involved in analyzing and describing all the effects of the drywall. Who knows what the cost of that will be. I suggest that we purchase all the drywall that China can produce and build houses in Iraq. At least then there will be weapons of mass destruction there.

The first sentence of an article in our local paper is "It's been a bad week to be a tractor in Manatee County." For real! I don't know anyone who has ever been a tractor.