OMG, what a cretin. Was she serious or was there more to this than meets the eye?

not sure. I'd say that was a bad misspeak unless she was being tongue-in-cheek.

the point about China being vital to the US economy is plenty true however. if I'd been in her shoes I would've said something more along the lines of "occasional faulty merchandise is the kind of bullet we sometimes have to bite when trading with a country that -- very inexpensively -- makes 80% of our consumer goods".

if china ever dumps the debt, we're screwed...

wow. what a retarded chick.
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We are far too dependent on China. Heaven forbid, given some sort of catastrophe or new world war, we've become so dependent on them that America will be in serious trouble.

Thank corporate greed and conservative near-sightedness.