When is our government going to help the Innocent Victims of Chinese Drywall?
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Why doesn’t the government think that thousands of people losing their homes due to contaminated drywall is not affecting the economy? Foreclosures are up and are only going to get worse because these homes are making the occupants too sick to live in them and the government has not helped with temporary housing. The CPSC can’t give people a final protocol so they have no way of knowing if their home will be safe even with remediation. When will someone in the government step forward and be responsible to resolve this issue before thousands are homeless, bankrupt, or ill from living in these homes even when they should not because they have nowhere to go?
Thousands of families have lived the catastrophe of Chinese Drywall for more than the last 2 years. These families have not been able to live in their homes that are now toxic from this import that was Made in China. Families did live in these homes for years before this toxin was realized and watched their health deteriorate, never imagining that it was from toxic drywall used in their home. These families have had their health, home and finances destroyed. The Government of the United States of America needs to step up and hold China accountable for their toxic products that are causing catastrophic problems for tax paying American citizens.
February 14th, 2011 at 10:48 am
the govt. doesnt care about people
February 14th, 2011 at 11:14 am
I searched the constitution and did not find any mention of the govt being in charge of drywall or illnesses. Not sure what you want the govt to do. Throw money at it as a symbolic gesture. China owns us and our supreme leader knows it. BTW, would love to see some links about the thousands of people who are in foreclosure because of the Chinese dry wall.
February 14th, 2011 at 11:50 am
This would actually have to be a class action suit and those take forever.
Its not a government responsibility as the stuff wasn’t manufactured here. This is one problem that will go through the courts forever and the government isn’t in a position to be a part of the suit.
It has no legal standing in court.
Asking the government to step up is to overlook the fact that they had nothing to do with it.
The company that made the drywall, the company that sold the drywall, the company who distributed the drywall all can be sued by people directly affected by drywall, but proving the Chinese government or the US government knew or should have know about it would be impossible to prove.
Sometimes, with the best of intentions, innocent people just get screwed, and this may be one of those times.
February 14th, 2011 at 12:45 pm
Hold “China” accountable? I hope you realize that a few Chinese suppliers doesn’t = China. Do you not have a problem with American drywall or something? They’re also causing the same problems albeit it’s not as newsworthy to the likes of FOX News and CNN. I guess we should hold America responsible for crappy, toxic American drywall then. Pfft.
“Monday, the Consumer Product Safety Commission said it has found what it calls a “strong association” between some Chinese-made drywall and the corrosion of pipes and wires. But there may also be problems with American-made drywall, as CBS News chief investigative correspondent Armen Keteyian reports.”
“Perhaps more surprising, “There were some American products that we tested that had higher emission than some of the new Chinese products that we tested,” Townsend said.”
“”It’s not as black and white as saying the Chinese drywall is bad and all other drywall is good,” Townsend said.”
February 14th, 2011 at 1:11 pm
1) Our gov’t doesn’t want to do anything because admitting there is a serious problem might gum up the works of commerce. They would prefer to let us keep the world going around by paying the lawyers to fight a never-ending battle, paying ransom to the insurance companies threatening to drop us because we have toxic drywall, paying inspectors to document evidence, paying repair people to fix appliances, electronics, and HVAC systems repeatedly, paying landlords for our second home because the first one is making our families sick, paying doctors, paying pharmacies, paying the banks who hold our mortgages and are preparing to make a tidy sum off our toxic properties when they foreclose and launder the property back into the system without remediating or disclosing the problem, paying bankruptcy lawyers when our bank accounts are drained from the legal battle, and paying everyone and their brother when we have to start a new life all over from scratch. (Yes, I know that was one long run-on sentence. It was intentional so you could get a feel for our lives.)
2) Look up the process of flue gas desulpherization. Essentially, all the pollutants which power companies are not allowed to release into our air are being captured and “cleaned” resulting in a product which was formerly put in landfills. Some brilliant businessman decided to make lemonade with those lemons. Power companies got tired of dealing with the fall-out from those landfills polluting groundwater, etc. so they invented synthetic gypsum. Now they don’t have to put that waste in landfills, they put it in a truck and drive it to the local drywall manufacturing plant where it becomes a part of the drywall recipe and is put in YOUR NEW HOME. You no longer have to worry about living BESIDE the toxic landfill. You and your neighbors are now living IN IT.
So now you see how synthetic American made drywall is also toxic. That fact is going to be carefully guarded because of the billions of dollars associated with the production of drywall in the United States. As we already know, all their lobbyists are in D.C. the first whiff of a PR problem. We have to battle the power companies, EPA, drywall manufacturers, CPSC, the builders, the list goes on and on…
So… haha joke’s on us. Digging too deep and complaining too loudly about China’s drywall is like shooting yourself in the foot. American drywall companies are not going to allow the finger to be pointed at them.
I’m surprised no one has mentioned the fact that China is a top purchaser of our coal. China takes coal which does not meet our EPA standards for being burnt here in the US. Perhaps that is another reason the finger pointing is minimal. We sold poor quality coal to China which they in turn burned, scrubbed, and manufactured into synthetic drywall which they sold back to us. Who takes the blame for that?
There are myriad reasons why the gov’t does not respond to us. It is up to us to join as one voice so we are heard. It is only our $ which counts. Collectively we represent quite a bit of money and therefor quite a bit of power.