The Obama administration has decided to buy cheap Chinese condoms instead of the U.S. made products it had been distributing for its efforts to spread condoms around the world by the U.S. Agency for International Development. So much for Obama’s “Buy American” promise.
Condom makers in Alabama will likely lose this business and perhaps as many as 300 American jobs. USAID plans to stimulate new contracts with a South Korean condom manufacturer and a Chinese company instead of Alatech, the Alabama manufacturer.
So, while Obama talks about American stimulus, USAID is deflating one American company in favor of causing foreign stocks to rise, screwing the economy in Alabama at least for Alatech and its 300 employees.
Isn’t it great that we have a president like Obama so willing to give our economy the injection it needs?
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Be careful Chinese will put lead in them
bobojake (Diary) Tuesday, March 24th at 6:47AM EST (link)China seems to have a problem with quality control. A new bunch of baby boomers sooner will be on the way.
The jokes almost write themselves...
Crowe (Diary) Tuesday, March 24th at 7:03AM EST (link)I saw this item last night and thought I was reading an item on The Onion.
“We sleep soundly in our beds only because
rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence upon those who would do us harmDear Leader Obama gives us leave to do so.”You have got to be kidding...
franklinslocke Tuesday, March 24th at 8:16AM EST (link)So, we are going to use condoms from a country that makes products with lead, that kills pets, contaminated seafood,, etc I don’t think so. People yelled about “outsourcing” jobs during Bush. Well…here will go…outsourcing “rubber” jobs.
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hummm stiffs a condom?
Jack (Diary) Tuesday, March 24th at 8:26AM EST (link)Someone should have been reading that more carefully in the editing room.
Jack
“If at age 20 you are conservative you have no heart. It at age 30 you are liberal you have no brains.” Sir Winston Churchill
Sorry
Warner Todd Huston (Diary) Tuesday, March 24th at 8:42AM EST (link)That was my bad attempt at humor.
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Not just "stiffs"
Lammo (Diary) Tuesday, March 24th at 1:36PM EST (link)but “stimulate”, “deflating”, “rise”, “screwing”, “injection” – - had me laughing out loud. No apologies necessary – - we need something to laugh at these days and this one practically wrote itself.
Seriously, this was probably one of the strings on all of the money the Chinese have been loaning us.
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actually this makes sense....
Jack (Diary) Tuesday, March 24th at 8:28AM EST (link)Sorry for the attempt at humor. Alabama is a Republican State trust me if this was New York or California this would not be happening. The great moron wanted to stick it to a Republican State.
Jack
“If at age 20 you are conservative you have no heart. It at age 30 you are liberal you have no brains.” Sir Winston Churchill
yup S AL is very red. nt
mom2oneson (Diary) Tuesday, March 24th at 1:45PM EST (link)Aren't the Chinese condoms the ones that have
The_Gadfly (Diary) Tuesday, March 24th at 1:27PM EST (link)the super high failure rates?
I mean, I’m with the Pope on what actually prevents STDs, but even if you were to buy into the idea that condoms prevent the transmission of AIDS or other STDs, shouldn’t you be sending ones with LOW rates of failure when properly used?
Gawd I should never have dabbled in statistics. I worked on the birthday bet problem once, so I remember the numbers go down quickly. I just ran the 95% failure rate, and assuming the failures are completely random, you only have to get to the 14th use before you have more than a 50% chance of at least one failure having occurred.