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Communist invaders taking over
(by Dave Lange - March 11, 2010)
COUNTY LINE, BY DAVE LANGE
Communist invaders taking over
As a capitalist who believes in my fellow American workers -- what there are left of them -- I try not to support Communist China. That's hard to do in a country that would rather borrow billions from communists than pay for its wars with taxes on those who reap the greatest rewards from capitalism. I have trouble understanding why Americans buy so many imported products that are subsidized with socialized medicine at the same time that we curse public health care for our own people.
Recently, the latest assault on America by Communist China arrived at Walmart and other stores in the form of cheap children's jewelry containing cadmium. A toxic heavy metal, cadmium is known to cause cancer and hinder brain development. Incredibly, it was being used as a substitute for lead, another toxic chemical that the Chinese used to lace jewelry and toys it sold to Americans earlier. They also were caught selling us contaminated pet food.
None of this should come as a surprise to anyone who doesn't trust communists.
But I had not been aware until recently that two of the greatest environmental threats facing Lake Erie and Ohio in my lifetime also are a result of unfair trade with China. I'm talking about the Asian carp, whose name should have been a dead giveaway, and the emerald ash borer.
The Asian carp, a large bottom feeder that upsets the food chain, killing off native species, was imported to the United States from China in the early 1970s by Southern fish farmers in an effort to control algae. Since then, the invasive species has been migrating up the Mississippi and Illinois rivers toward Lake Michigan.
If the voracious fish makes its way into the Great Lakes, environmentalists warn that it will be an ecological disaster. Officials in most Great Lakes states, including Ohio, are attempting to force the closure of Illinois shipping locks that link Lake Michigan to the Mississippi River in an effort to prevent the destruction of their multibillion-dollar fishing industry. Unfortunately, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to issue an injunction -- siding with imported communist fish against the preservation of native capitalist fish.
A recent story by our Geauga County reporter, Joseph Koziol Jr., explained why Geauga County was added to the quarantine list against the transport of firewood across county lines. Alan Siewert, an urban forester with the Ohio Division of Forestry, told him that the threat comes from a destructive insect known as the emerald ash borer, which is believed to have entered the United States on shipping crates from -- you guessed it -- China.
The beetle was first found in southeastern Michigan in the summer of 2002, and infestations have since been found in 11 states and two Canadian provinces. Forty-eight of Ohio's 88 counties, including Cuyahoga, Lorain, Medina, Portage and Summit, have had confirmed infestations. Geauga and 13 other counties also have been quarantined due to their proximity and likelihood of becoming infested. Ohio is home to more than 3.8 million ash trees, nearly all of which could be killed by this Chinese pest.
The evidence is conclusive that our country is being invaded by the communists. The defenders of capitalism need to rise up and demand that the federal government close our borders to the Chinese invaders. Stop buying their toxic products. Stop importing their invasive species. Buy American. Pay our own debts. Give the communists back their dirty money.
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