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Originally Posted by jebartle
Would you shop there?...On Diane Sawyer tonight they said if we bought $64 of American made merchandise this Christmas, we could produce 200,000 jobs.....Let's do it Villagers!
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It sounds good, but I'm not sure I understand how it would work. Let's say that a "widget" is made in America. I go out and buy a widget. It's already been produced, so no new job has been created to produce it. If the seller of the widget decides he has to reorder it, the labor to produce it is already in place, so no new job has been created. If demand for the widget suddenly skyrockets, then perhaps the widget manufacturer has to hire more help to produce more widgets, but only until the sudden increase in demand has been met, then those extra workers will be laid off. If the increase in demand is permanent, the manufacturer might just think that he can increase his profit margin and his stock price by outsourcing the labor to China or Bangladesh. I think what Diane Sawyer was probably saying was that if we have a choice between purchasing a product made in the USA or purchasing an identical product made in Bangladesh, then we should spend the extra money and buy the product made in America, and do it every time we shop.