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Originally Posted by rgrizzard
Consumers did not go there first(I don't believe anywhere in our history has American consumers demanded cheap foreign products). American retailers(see Walmart and the likes) saw a profit line by bringing in cheap foreign goods and putting it up for sale over here. Companies and politicians should have put a stop to this from the begining. Free and fair trade is great and all but hardly competitive when a chinese worker makes 1/10 of what an American worker makes. Don't blame the consumer most of them don't understand(ignorance is bliss), this lies in the politicians and corporate Americas pocket!
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That right there is the problem, people don't understand that each purchase has an impact. no matter how small that purchase is. and that is WHY they SHOULD BE BLAMED for what has happened.
I will explain this one more time...
think about this logically. if you buy a foreign made product, that costs the sale of one American made product. right? when this started there was nothing that was made overseas that you could not buy an american version of. The early Japanese products were basically JUNK, the big joke of the day was the throw away toys the Japanese made. but they were trying to copy American made toys.. for the same toy you could buy 4 japanese toy cars for the price of one american made one. so kids were going to tear them up anyway so who bought the cheap ones to save money?
The same went for the Japanese transistor radios of the early 60's. My dad bought a new Motorola transistor radio for 19 dollars, Our neighbor bought a Japanese brand that cost 10 dollars. the American brand had 10 transistors, the Japanese brand had 5 transistors, the American radio would bring in stations from 300 miles away. the Japanese radio was lucky to bring in a station from across the town... eventually the American company went out of business selling transistor radios, not because of an inferior product but cheap foreign competition. The American consumer demanded cheap foreign goods with their pocketbooks. Now the same is starting to happen with Chinese products, Korean products (Name your third world country), I bet you can remember will everything brought in from China was junk.. now look, most everything here electronically and toy wise is from china... soon it will be their cars... watch out I am warning you it is happening all over again...It's just moving from Japan.. even they are feeling it this time. Do you now see a pattern here?
You can try to blame the government and companies for running our jobs out of the country, but if you think about it, WE are the ones to blame. And we can change it the same way, it took 50 years to get here so it is going to take many years to get back.. remember the consumer has the strongest vote by knowing where his dollar is going.
The government and the companies just reacted to our demands with our buying habits, and if we change our buying habits we may be able to Save what we have, but it will be near impossible to get back those industries we have lost. We and our Government cannot control what workers make in other countries, the only thing we can do is show them we will support OUR workers and OUR country by buying from domestic manufacturers every chance we can.
Please just remember this one thing
Every time you buy a foreign made product that is also made in the USA you are contributing to the demise of that industry in the USA. eventually there will be no products made here if we keep doing what we have been doing...