"Purchasers just looking for something cheap from China will get it — cheap in every sense of the term. That’s not China’s fault: it’s early stage industrialization. Britain’s factory life was dirty, slipshod, and dangerous in Charles Dickens’s era, and America’s was in the day of Upton Sinclair. And, frankly, American consumers just looking for something cheap will get it too. So avoid Chinese toys if you feel you must. But let’s not make this the basis for a big fiesta of anti-China-ism."
Considering that my shirt comes from Honduras, Mr. B.’s new sandals from Vietnam, and his mother’s new shorts from Mongolia, that’s good advice. Globalization is only all bad if you’re a Marxist.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 