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Originally Posted by Cuervo
I understand your concern, but if we focus more on buying our own products unemployment will drop across the board and wages will rise. Today a person buys a product manufactured from a foreign country, that means one less American employee and that also means one less shopper to purchase whatever your employer is selling. Buying American products is a win, win, situation for everyone. Tariffs will end up with prices going up anyway and if you remember the last time we went down this road China retaliated and started importing soybeans from South America hurting U.S. farmers.
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Let me say how I avoid buying Chinese-made products. I buy almost ALL of my clothes from thrift stores or garage sales. I can also find hardware and sports equipment that way. For example, I have found almost new softball gloves at Goodwill that are worth $80 for under 10 dollars. I even buy shoes there. I COULD afford to buy new clothes, but they would likely be made in China or another country that does NOT like the US. It is true that items sitting in thrift stores may have been ORIGINALLY made in China, but China does NOT profit when I buy 2nd hand.
........Obviously China and many other countries, are NOT friends of the US. WE have basically, for about 60 years, FUNDED their industrial and military EXPANSION. Today, they threaten the US and align with Russia. They have greater influence in Africa than the US. And are outmaneuvering us in other areas of the world (and SPACE). We should NEVER have funded them and built them up. So, what to do now? I would suggest bringing back SOME manufacturing jobs. And buying products from countries that LIKE the US. Those may be dwindling, but we still have England, Canada, Australia, Finland, and Sweden on our side. Germany and France are having their own problems. So overall, I would be ANTI outsourcing to unfriendly countries and PRO IN-sourcing within the US.