Jim Shoe wrote:
magnusfide wrote:
Bottom line for me: I'll continue to buy American to support American jobs.
So, I guess you own or will buy a Toyota. They're made in America by American workers. I can't help but wonder how many "American" products with "American" names are manufactured in whole or in part off-shore.
yahbut the money eventually flows offshore back to the country where the company is based. in today's global economy it's pretty hard to buy pure American...that is American products produced (made/created and assembled here) by American workers and the company based here in America. no, if I
must i'd rather that my dollars flow to a country with an actual democracy and which is friendly with the USA. this is why I will not
knowingly buy Chinese products or products which contain Chinese components. and that goes for products produced in other totalitarian or pseudo-democratic countries like Viet-Nam, Venezuela, etc.