The Chinese failure (amended/updated)

First the Chinese gave us toys laced with lead and poison for our children to play with, be exposed to and quite likely harm.

Of course, part of that is our own fault for having the adult-child George W. Bush in the White House where he denuded our EPA which was supposed to protect us from such things but that's another story.

Then, the Chinese poisoned their own children because some greedy idiot put melamine in their infant's formula food.

Better them than us, right?

All this time, they're poisoning their own water and air, horribly, but, hey, they want to be a wealthy superpower fast.

And of course they have the worst mines and mining accidents on the planet.

Sure, I'd like to see them raise their people out of the abject poverty they've experienced for hundreds of years, sure, but not at any price. Not at the price of unbridled, poisoning capitalism and consumerism.

Next, they poisoned lots of Americans recently in the South with their drywall products which virtually immediately sickened the residents who were exposed to it.

"But it was a bargain!"

Sick.

Now, check this out--a Chinese freighter is sitting on the Great Barrier Reef, down in Australia, about to foul that incredible, unique, magnificent and fragile ecosytem.

You know what? The world needs to tell the Chinese "enough!" "We've had it. We aren't taking this crap any more."

But wait.

That's what they should tell us, the US, too, given our near-destruction of the world economy, given the banking and mortgage mess we inflicted on the world.

Never mind.

Update on the stranded tanker at the G.B. Reef: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100405/ts_nm/us_australia_ship;_ylt=AiOEm81ILnRvmW47WjbF48as0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTNscDhraDYxBGFzc2V0A25tLzIwMTAwNDA1L3VzX2F1c3RyYWxpYV9zaGlwBGNjb2RlA21vc3Rwb3B1bGFyBGNwb3MDNgRwb3MDMwRwdANob21lX2Nva2UEc2VjA3luX2hlYWRsaW5lX2xpc3QEc2xrA3N0cmFuZGVkc2hpcA--