If there were a choice, it would be interesting to test that assertion.
Have you ever tried to buy consumer goods not made in, say, China?
For some items it is nearly impossible. There's no choice involved.
Each of those forced micro decisions leads to incremental reduction in wages and lifestyle of working Americans.
Its great for those of us with intellectual and financial capital to invest, if we're nimble enough to dance with multinationals on this unlevel playing field. Any of us that aren't already so equipped, well, they aren't true Americans I guess, their taxes and civic contributions don't count as much, let 'em suffer, they'll keep buying and working as they are told.
Wealth sucked from increasingly impoverished Americans are sent to offshore corps and foreign countries, incrementally hollowing out the economy. First the manufacturing base goes (in spite of NMA claims to the contrary), and now the service sector.
Sure, it keeps down inflation, while the pump is primed, but it leads to Clinton or Dean-type insurgents to clean up the budgets after all the looting. |
