Dear editor,
One presidential candidate has brought up the subject of countries taking advantage of America. Let’s dive deeper into this subject, even deeper than how that candidate spoke about it.
China unloads millions of inferior products into our country every year. But let’s go deeper with the Chinese products that are intentionally intended to harm our citizenship.
Something imported as a once-legal product — supposedly for adding to bath water — is bath salts. Its chemical make-up contains ingredients not associated with any of the other products in this product category. It's not marketed to stores such as Bed, Bath & Beyond but to smoke shops and convenience stores. When it is marketed within the stores, it is not marketed as a bath additive but as a substance that stores tell its customers to snort to achieve a high.
The customers could only know this through a bait-and-switch product marketing scheme that originated in China. The marketing agency's salesmen who sold these products to the stores, along with our local stores, were in compliance with this scheme; they all had knowledge of the scheme.
Another product with the exact same bait-and-switch product marketing scheme was imported as an incense, potpourri-type product. But in these same stores it is marketed as something the customer should now smoke. In each case, these products harmed the customer, a U.S. citizen, and caused states to have to spend taxpayer dollars finally chasing these products out of our local stores.
As for Mexico, it has taken a majority of our jobs, yet almost all of the heroin and cocaine that enter our country does so through Mexico with Mexican cartels. Hundreds of thousands of immigrants from countries south of Mexico's southern border dissolve into our states, taking our jobs here with some progressive liberal Democrat states and cities even being safe havens for these so-called immigrants.
America is being preyed upon, not only by the Chinese and Mexican people, but also their governments.
Also, as with the marketing agency's sales people and our local stores, we have a large portion of the American public who are in compliance with these actions. They are known as progressive liberals.
I won't include all Democrats, but will ask: Why do you still belong to and support a party controlled by progressive liberals — including the Obama administration — that not only allows but complies with you, your children and grandchildren being preyed upon by foreign governments and the people thereof?
STEVEN M. KING
Milton
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This article originally appeared on Santa Rosa Press Gazette: LETTER: 'Progressive liberals' let undocumented workers 'prey' upon America