When I was a boy the fluid for making bubbles came in small, glass jars with small, plastic bubble-making wands attached, usually with a strong elastic. The entire package usually originated in Toronto. The bubbles we made were possibly as large as four inches, but that would be pushing it.
Today bubble making fluid is big business and the bottles are huge, the wands large and sometimes even gigantic and the bubble these kits make are at least a foot in diameter and often much, much larger. The kits come from China.
Trade, we are told, is good. It is the life blood of our economies. Still, I cannot help but wonder why bubble-making kits cannot be made anywhere. Why it is necessary to ship the stuff literally halfway around the world so little kids can make bubbles? Why?
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I remember those. We should not trade with a government that thinks respect means deference, uses the illegal detention of foreign citizens as hostage bartering, and grinds their own people into the ground.
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