buy junk of their own free will.
Who are you or I to tell then how to spend their money? I thought it was supposed to be a "free market".
The consumer should buy the best product within his price range regardless of where is comes from. My point is that too many of the American consumers just don't give a damn.
If the foreign products turn out to be junk and the American products are good, they will see the difference soon enough.
Speaking of "junk", what of those foreign cars I mentioned? Should they have bought Detroit junk? And how do you know it was "American" in any case? Ever looked at where the parts are manufactured?
I said "global" not "large". If global companies are so fair to their employees, why are they out sourcing so many jobs to places that have lower standards, and cut the American worker out of their jobs?
Because it's cheaper and they are out to make a profit?
How do you propose to prevent it, anyway? Not let Americans spend money, buy companies, or make investments overseas?
I know, unions are one of the problems, but certainly not the only, or biggest, one.
The biggest "problem" is cheap 3rd world labor.
We used to have American telemarketers, and as low life as they were, they could be forced to stop calling your home. So what do the global companies to? They set up shop in India, where telemarketers, that can barely even speak English, hound you day and night, and there is nothing we can do to stop them. If you have an American made computer, you have to talk to someone in India to get advice.
You work this out the wy you do any international problem. By treaty.
"American" made computers? Ever look at the origins of most of the chips and other components inside.
Medium size businesses who make good products, should do fine, but they don't have the advertising budget, and today's consumers believe every thing they see during TOs of a football game on TV.
Maybe initially. Reality does eventaully weigh in.
>>Suppose, after other expenses, a family of 5 has only $400 left and it costs $100 a month to feed a person buying strictly American products or $80 allowing some foreign products. Do you buy the cheaper foreign-American mixture, shoot one family member, or allow all to slowly starve?<<
That's a stupid question, and you know it. You do what you gotta do.
Precisely. And if your job is lost or your wages are cut because of global competition, you do what you have to do. Precisely the point.
Once international communications became dirt cheap thanks to plentiful communications satellites and bandwidth availability expanded thanks to techniques like spread spectrum, a global economy became inevitable. You either adjust to it or die. For every pressure there is to close the American market, there is countervailing pressure by another group to open it. And it isn't just Big Global Business. Consumers get upset about paying high prices for junk too.
Try this book. It will explain much of what is going on.
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