Great posts from both Dr. Winston O. Boogie Jr. and Rubicon! The world is flat people and there is NOTHING you can do to change that. Commerce goes beyond our borders and our country and will continue to do so.
As consumers, we should buy the BEST product we can buy whether it is made here or overseas because the only way to turn things around is for our companies to get back on top and go back to producing the best instead of trying to make their shareholders happy by making huge amounts of money for them! It all comes down to greed ..............
The point made about the light bulbs is one to think about. Did the whole world know that we were going to change to this new type of light bulb? If yes, then why didn't the American Manufacturers get their stuff together and start tooling up for it, instead of leaving it to our competitor nations to jump the gun.
Greed has taken over - very few companies spend money on R&D to keep them ahead of the game, they pay their top people outrageous amounts of money instead of using that money to better the company, if they treated their employees better they would encourage loyalty and pride in their product.
Becoming an isolationist nation producing second rate products is not going to get us back to full employment and the envy of the world. We have to be the very BEST at what we do and how we treat our people - because, your people ARE your business.
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