At a time when the federal government is spending billions of stimulus dollars to stem the tide of U.S. layoffs, should that same government put even more Americans out of work by buying cheaper foreign products?Let's forget that silly notion of mine that our government should not be distributing condoms at all, let alone in other countries where the people haven't learned how to police their own behaviors.
(Face it: these countries are 'third world' for a reason, and it's not due to a lack of free condoms.)
But it seems to me that if we can pump
And given China's propensity for quality control, does anybody really think it's a good idea to be passing out mercury-laced Jimmy Deans in lead-based packaging to a bunch of AIDS-infected Bantus who can't keep their britches on?
Not to mention that 'cheaper' condoms are notoriously reliable when it comes to being unreliable.
I mean, look at the reputation of the United States abroad. They already hate us, no matter what good we try to do.
Imagine their anger when poison condoms ruin their love lives even further than fear of AIDS.
(On second thought, if they really feared AIDS, I guess they wouldn't need all these condoms after all. Besides the point, I guess.)
These folks are gonna continue to kill each other off, doing through promiscuity the job machetes and AK-47's didn't finish in their last tribal war.
But this time, they'll blame us.
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And given China's propensity for quality control, does anybody really think it's a good idea to be passing out mercury-laced Jimmy Deans in lead-based packaging to a bunch of AIDS-infected Bantus who can't keep their britches on?
You forgot the melanine, Gino. But no worries, the Chinese won't.
True story: we do sell some items manufactured in China. One of our vendors is the Shangdong Honest Machine Company. Hoping that the condoms aren't one of their products....
Yeah, we can't have government officials admit that the only anti-AIDS program that's worked is Uganda's "ABC" (abstinence--be faithful-then condoms) program, can we?
We build our societies primarily on inductive logic, and then we declare that certain numbers are out of bounds. Insane.
Do you really want to trust condoms from a country with 6 billion people?
This nation's making it's last stand on the brink of irrelevance, and we all know the Chinese are the ones at the gates, champing at the bit for a shot at global influence.
So isn't it inevitable that we grant admittance to the Trojan Horse?
tully: nice one.
Irrelevance? Does that make us the new France? How depressing.
I wish I could find the most fabulously blistering condemnation of the "logic" that argues condoms help stem AIDS (when the numbers suggest that they DON'T) ... only those African countries with long-established abstinence-and-marriage norms, or (Uaganda) newly established ones, see low or reduced AIDS rates ...
I was recently discussing with a fellow I know that the condom thing makes me crazy, from a pregnancy perspective. Even if it is 99% or whatever whatever effective (which I friggin' doubt, and now they're touting condoms from *China*???) ... dude, as the woman who would end up with a child inside her when the condoms failed, CONDOMS ARE NOT ENOUGH. With Natural Family Planning, I KNOW when I am not capable of having a baby ... 100% protection. Questionable failure stats, but definitely greater than 0%, make condoms an obvious non-answer--anyone truly averse to having a baby will necessarily need to use additional methods. And spermicide and abortion do not prevent disease transmission.
I think condoms from China are just the latest step in the power-players preferring to devalue and kill off the dark-skinned people. Slightly more subtle than building Planned Parenthoods in the neighborhoods that "need" them most (black and hispanic).
Ugly stuff.
Tully: good one ;).
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