douglaschick18's Blog

Perhaps we demand Americans make quality stuff, eh?? We Americans are corner-cutters and now we're paying for it. You can thank the capitalist pigs that got rich paying you slave wages, buying crap material and feeding you heart attacks in a sack, like McDonalds, with little to no regard for the environment or your health and all the little brainwashed NEOCON sheep are plugged into it like a bad version of the matrix.

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Watch it. We're in this mess, because we allow it.

There was a day in this country that foreign/imported items were considered either a luxury or inferior, depending upon the product and country of origin.

With the abuse of the union system and the advent of Globalization, made in the USA has come to mean shoddy workmanship or luxury, again depending upon the product.

In the day we, the American people, were the main contributors to the victories in WWI and WWII by being able to supply all the needed equipment, machinery and food for our allies and ourselves.

When we sent our men off to Afghanistan and Iraq they went with inappropriate and inadequate equipment and machines because we had to wait for the stuff to come from foreign countries. “We don’t make them here any more.”

Because it is impossible to buy all of our needs MADE in the USA (and we are not skilled enough to make them all at home), we, my spouse and I, have set up a priority list of producer countries for purchasing. Even this is difficult to hold to because China is last on our list closely preceded by Venezuela, N. Korea, Vietnam and Cuba…. After the USA come such countries as Taiwan, UK, Canada, Switzerland and the like.

Agreed Akiame.

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".... my spouse and I, have set up a priority list of producer countries for purchasing. Even this is difficult to hold to because China is last on our list closely preceded by Venezuela, N. Korea, Vietnam and Cuba…. After the USA come such countries as Taiwan, UK, Canada, Switzerland and the like."

South Korea and Japan are also good choices IMO. Where there are no American-made products available, it makes sense go at least buy from our allies and not our sworn enemies.

The Constitution of the USA does not establish free trade but, instead, allows the Government to establish tariffs. This seems to have gone out of fashion with some. It is short-sighted. As you say we need to be self-sufficient especially as far as concerns our own defence and basic needs.

Nothing, except of course government over-regulation, prevents us from developing our own industries, however. I applaud all who do so. Personally I never shop at Wal-Mart the USA's biggest retail outlet for Communist China. My vehicle was made in the USA and Canada. I buy used clothes if I can't afford or find American-made. Often goods are made in Latin America. I have no problem with that.

Those interested in curbing immigration (especially illegal) might consider helping, in this way, to build up the economies of Latin American nations, where home industries no longer exist. I would favor those friendly to the USA, though.

(as it China is free to ship virtually unlimited amounts of shoes into the US but we have a small

One last try,
... small quota of upwards to 2000 US automobiles regardless of manufaturer into their country.

I am not wealthy, but I would rather pay more for products made with US resources, in the US than to help fill the coffers of a fair weather friend.

I like the tariff idea. Maybe they could put a tariff on shoes, children toys and use it to shore up the sagging Social Security/Medicare fund?

Just a thought.