For what it's worth:
I hear that even our close neighbor Mexico is feeling the pinch of corporate greed by loosing those high paying $5per day manufacturing jobs to China where they make $5/week and work in dangerous environmentally unfriendly conditions.
Jim
You comment about the $89 foreign built TV vs the $150 American made one brings up one big problem. We have no choice on many goods. I for one would rather pay a little more for an American made product vs a Foreign built product. You might be suprised how small the differance can be between American made and Foreign made.
For example I know a guy who used to work for a large department chain as a clothing purchaser. They could but American made Levi's for about $2 per pair more than the same product made in China and that was about 4 years ago. If they would put two racks there and give me the choice then I would pay a couple of bucks to keep the money here in the states.
Corporations and individuals make too many decisions based on the bottom line vs the big picture.
I work in the steel industry and we are seeing record price increases in the neighborhood of 16 to 100% over the past few months depending on the product. A large part of the problem is China's thirst for steel with their booming economy that we and Wallyworld helped finance.
The dollar is weakening and if the trend continues the cost of foreign goods will rise and make our products come down in price overseas. Who knows mayby one day our grandchildren will be making toys for Chineese children.
