"pg" <penang@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> On Mar 18, 3:52 pm, "J.Venning" <J.Venn...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> "bluewave" <bluew...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>>
>>
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>> world-news, war
>> > Seeded by tucanofulano
>> > I understand the people (not any "government", officially) have
>> > started a world-wide effort on the part of free peoples to avoid
>> > buying anything "Made in China" to the fullest possible extent till
at
>> > least 3 months after Tibet is once again a free nation and a member
of
>> > the United Nations as a sovereign, not puppet, nation. This is a
>> > worthy, non-military, non-confrontational, pacific and non-violent
>> > method of bringing the tremendous economic power of the other 5
>> > billion people of the world to bear on the economic stability of
China
>> > and consequent pressure on the leaders of China to get themselves out
>> > of Tibet. My family sup****ts this movement the best we can. Do the
>> > math: at least $10/month x 5 Billion NOT purchased from China is
huge.
>> > Why don't you and your family do the same?
>>
>> Have you yourself started boycotting Chinese goods ? I see you're
>> posting from San Francisco. Go to China Town in SF and tell all the
>> Chinese
>> there to "get out from Tibet", otherwise you are boycotting everything
>> the
>> Chinese are producing, and tell us how you're getting on in a month's
>> time.
>
> How many times a day for the average person would use a China-made
> product? Simple - just look at the breakfast scene -
> In the morning, we use a China-made coffee machine to make coffee.> Then
> we pour the coffee into a China-made coffee cup.
> We use a China-made spoon to stir the coffee.
> We fry some bacon and eggs, on a China-made pan.
> Then we put the bacon and eggs on a China-made plate.
> We made some mushroom soup, in a China-made sauce pan.
> Then we get some butter, unfreeze it a bit in a China-made microwave
> oven.
> Luckily, China is too far to send us bread every day, or else, we
> would have to eat China-made bread as well. :)
>
I know that, and you know that, but the poster calling himself
"bluewave", posting from San Francisco, claimed that he and his family can
survive without buying anything that is made in China. I would merely like
to know how far he gets in San Francisco without buying anything that is
"Made in China".
J.
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