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Originally Posted by tvbound
"Made in America" purchases will only come back in vogue, when people are willing to pay more (often a LOT more) for essentially the same products. It's simply common sense, that if you're paying employees more - then the cost of the goods or services will most likely be more. In essence, we have only ourselves to blame for the amount of foreign made services/goods, when we prioritize price. The ultimate irony being, that those foreign countries making so many of our products are simply trying to follow the old American model - of creating a burgeoning middle class/strong economy.
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Not that simple. Very abridged story. My dad was on the Battan death march. He was one of 20 something in his battalion to survive WWII. There are 400-600 in a battalion. He passed of cancer with a piece of a shell to close to his spinal cord to be removed and was in pain most of his life. I could not buy a Japanese car. It was July 4th. Irony, all the japanese companies were running July 4th specials and the American car companies were closed. I ended up buying a Chevy. What is more American than a Chevy. It does qualify as being made in the USA. Reality 40% of it is foreign made.
Rare earth metals. Original post complete with graphs and all. Tessler being electric uses rare earth magnets. The US just reopened a mine in Calif. They are not all that rare. The mining and refining are dirty. We ship American ore to China and buy back refined rare earth metals. Made in the United States.
Apple made a whole big announcement that they were moving some production to the US. Unlike in the past,much manufacturing is done by robots. Higher American labor costs simply do not effect robots.