Crooked Corporations and Government

Over the last few months they have had a lot of problems with imports. Bad dog food, bad people food, toothpaste, chemicals and lead in toys…..
They keep yelling about how bad China is and that is ok with me. They do not have the controls and safety regulations that we do.
Why are they not talking about the manufacturers and importers though?
When I was a kid, anything you got from overseas was considered third rate and cheap. The good stuff was made in USA. However, because of regulations and wages for employees, many companies have moved their factories and plants out of the United States. A good example of this is Mexico. Just across the border are many plants that originally were American Made.
It is the same with the importers. An import and distribution company does not worry about wages or retirement or any of that. They pay a very cheap price overseas.
Is our cost less since items are cheaply bought or made outside the United States? NO, what has happened is that these importers and manufacturers keep the prices as inflated as they can and then they pocket the extra savings. You can see the proof of this just by looking at their yearly returns and the stock market. They have record profits, but they have no responsibility. All the yelling and screaming is about China and how bad they are.
China, who cares!!!!!!!!! I believe the problem and responsibility should sit in the laps of the importers, distributors, and manufacturers. If Disney, or Hasbro, or any of the other large “toy sellers” get their stuff from China (or anywhere else for that matter) then they should be held accountable and responsible.
They are the ones that outsourced the jobs to make more profit, but they still need us as consumers.
Why do the news stations not talk about his part of the problem?
Sometimes I think that the news broadcasters are the best friend of government and corporations. For a few days the major threat is terrorists and they go into it with so many what ifs and whens. Then they shift to immigration and how we are being invaded by that. Then they shift to China and how they can destroy us with bad food. Eventually they start all over. They continually shift the focus back and forth depending on where they get the most viewers or depending on their owner’s ideals. When this happens, a lot of the really important stuff gets overlooked or bypassed. The politicians can just wait for it to “go away” for a while. Take Katrina for example. There was such an outcry at first about repairs for New Orleans and housing and feeding the homeless. Then for months there was nothing. It must have been solved because we heard nothing about it.
Yesterday, I was reading an article in the latest Time magazine about Katrina though. It seems that the Army Corps of Engineers has been doing the same old thing. They replace the things that don’t work with no concept of how to make it better than it was before. All the money appropriated for it is gone, and it is not anywhere near fixed. Someone made a fortune off Katrina, but the inhabitants of the area lost out. Yeah for crooks, politicians, and big business.
Nothing gets solved but new problems and threats are always popping up. The newscasters are happy because they have something “new”. The politicians are happy because they can continue to go along the same old way and the public forgets. Business is happy because they can continue to make money at the expense of the consumer.
It all ends up that way. “At the expense of the consumer”
That is US, we loose.

Stupid Walmart

Stupid Walmart
You know their new system? You give them a check and they print out everything on it and it is instantly approved or rejected? LOL Here is what happened to me

I wrote a check on the 19th of august for $70.28. When I checked my bank, the amount was $170.28. The receipt in my hand is correct. The check that was printed out by walmart was almost unreadable. It looks like there is an extra dollar sign in front of the number. Evidently the bank scanner or whatever they use, saw it as a 1.
It is 6pm. I just spent over two hours trying to deal with this. The lady in customer service told me to come back tomorrow. The check is pending and I am not willing to wait until it clears before I do something about it. The night manager finally gave me a phone number to some financial place for me to call and see what they charged. He told me they were open ALL the time. I called right away. It seems they are only open from 9 to 3 daily. SO he lied or had no idea what he was talking about. I took the phone number down for the district manager off their wall. It turned out to be a walmart in wichita falls and they told me I should talk to the manager here. I told him what I was going to do.
I told my wife to cancel the check completely. When they want their money, I will come down to walmart and pay what I owe, minus the amount for canceling the check.
I do not know how this happened but I do require it to be fixed. The night manage should have been more helpful, but he is a useless dickhead. If there is a problem with their registers printing checks for us then it should be stopped. In the future, I will be filling them out myself.
So if you use this service, be very careful and check.
Managers of walmart, YOU SUCK