Knock offs and Why people hate Americans

Rightly or wrongly, Americans are vilified in many parts of the world. This is usually written off as simple jealousy but I have another perspective that should be considered. Take a look around at the local supermarket. Do we REALLT need 150 types of shampoo, or dog food, or toothbrushes? Of course not but we somehow thing that we're entitled to them.

people in other countries, especially those that make our clothes and personal items see what we buy. Jealous? Probably not and I be they aren't really unhappy that you have so much. What they do see however is that while we're buying the latest BratZ doll at inflated prices, they are almost starving. These people ask, and I think rightly so, why it's wrong for us to have so much when they have so little. They'd like to see us do without a little bit of the extras so they could live better lives. Does this seem to be unreasonable to anyone? Why can't we buy less so others might have more? Why do Americans spend more on dog food than most of African countries spend on health care. While Africans are burying their children due to diseases that we've wiped out in our country, they see us spending enough money on dog food to save their kids. And we ask why they hate Americans? The reason may not be because we have so much but because we care so little.

There's knock offs and there's KNOCK OFF'S!

Folks, there are cheap knock offs and CHEAP, low down dirty trick abusive type knock offs when it comes to products made in third world countries. Many companies that use off shored labor to construct their products use some of the best materials available. So while the latest fashion may come out of a sweat shop in some third world country, at least you know that materials being used are of good quality.

Of course, the people actually doing the work could be working for less than 5 dollars a day. Or about enough to buy their meals only, just so the industrialized west can pay exorbitant amounts for the results of their labors. Now PLEASE don't give me the competition is good for everyone garbage or that they actually do better by taking slave wages. ok, maybe they have few other options but does that mean that the international corporations with their big deal salaries to their upper management need to push wages to their lowest common amount? Do you know that there are whole factories of people slaving away at building shoes for a well known sporting goods company? Do you know that this well known sporting goods company pays their well known basketball player spokesperson MORE MONEY THAN ALL THE PEOPLE THAT MAKE THE PRODUCTS FOR A YEAR!

So we as consumers get taken as those same shoes delivered to the dock in LA cost about 12 bucks. We whoever, get to pay 100-150 dollars for those same 12 dollar shoes! All the while the people who did the work are starving.

Will someone who so loves the free market society so much, try to justify this type of robbery and abuse of people. It may be legal but it's immoral.

Let's just get a Gun for Home Security!

There are few ideas about Home Security that illicit more direct response than the belief of having a gun equals home security. Granted, there is a certain appeal but in thinking through it, we need to realize that a gun, either a revolver or rifle, doesn't meet either of the criteria to increase home security.

Remember that home security increases when would be burglars and thieves are forced in take larger risks to enter your home. That is, if it's more difficult to enter, the likelihood of a break in is decreased. A firearm doesn't make your home any more difficult to get into so simply having a gun doesn't meet this first test.

The second test is an understanding that burglars prefer anonymity. They want to enter and leave without being noticed or seen. How does a firearm increase a burglar being noticed? It doesn't!
Although having a gun in your home may initially be desired, remember that increased home security cannot be used as a justification for having one in your home. There are also mitigating risks that increase the potential of a serious injurty by having a weapon in your home. To limit this risk, you would need a gun save or have it locked away. This though limits it's use in a fast developing situation like a burglary. And the circle of problems continues. . .