American vs. Cheap

[Turk]

Globalization, we were told. It was supposed to have been good for us.

Sure, if you are Chinese, or Japanese.

I wasn't sure about the numbers but when our own money comes back to US and is used to buy farms, baseball teams, and some very American institutions and landmarks it just not may be in our best interest.

Their labor is plentiful, and they will soon turn that labor into cash and goods and trade deficits and disposable income for them and more deficit, lowered standard of life for us.

If anyone out there thinks we are trading on a even trading field, they are mistaken.
Token Harley Davidsons shipped into Japan or China does not really go far to balance the trade deficit.

Few years ago, Japan even denied US rice exports into their country under some argument that It was not in the traditional interest of Japan to allow something like rice to be brought in because it offended their traditions.

I wish we could have said the same about our traditional worship of cars. That would have stopped them at the ports.

I have resigned to having to do business globally, because the companies themselves are all over the national boundaries. However we need to be able to sell everywhere we are buying from. Is that too much to ask?