Sure, we've all heard of fake gold and silver bars...

I agree! Plus it helps your economy. I was just stating, Germany is known for quality. The cheap Walmart stuff from China, as you say, "you get what you pay for" Remember those cheap, crappola LADAS from Russia.

 

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China can make high quality products but they make more money making the low end stuff.

 

Also our landfills fill up with that junk faster.

 

Actually, its time to burn the garbage and derive electricity from it. Landfills were in vogue during the Hundred Years War era, as was the "Black Death".

 

I wouldn't want to live within a hundred miles of one. Too many plastics in our landfills these days.

 

Ah, yes, landfills, also known as "future mines". There will come a day when we're profitably digging stuff back out of them.

 

American made appliances are pretty much junk. Even the high end stuff. For something like a dishwasher, even once reputable brands like KitchenAid are but a shadow of what they were 45 years ago when Hobart owned them. It's a race to the bottom, and if you can get a new dishwasher to last 5 years, you have done better than most consumers who only go 2 or 3 years before problems severe enough to warrant device replacement begin to emerge. I don't think it is quite as bad with automobiles, yet given a choice between a Toyota manufactured in Japan and one made in Mississippi, how on earth could anyone pick the American made model over the imported one?

 

Back 16 years ago I noticed many of the foodstuffs at the store had originations from China.
Most brands of Apple Juice were from China concentrates etc.
Most canned fruits, etc.
Many frozen salmon, etc
Costco at that time had large platters of shrimp, sourced from China.

I avoided this as China was going through alot of land, air, and water pollution.
So I read labels and did research.
Nowadays it has shifted a lot, but you still have to read labels.

I prefer not to buy stuff made in China (and have for decades) but some times you cannot avoid it.

 

I do buy canned white asparagus from Y&Y brand China. I love white asparagus in a white sauce. Germans and most Europeans prefer the white over green asparagus.

Yes, US built automobiles went downhill after 1972 when chrome went obsolete, plus those 427, 454s engines, sidepipes....sad. Coins also went downhill after 1933. If the US kept making cars like one below, the industry would be on top.

 

Yup. Back when movie stars looked like movie stars, not homeless people rescued from the local park.