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falconbrother wrote:

GeoBoy wrote:
For me I have a real hard time purchasing Chinese manufactured products when there are great American products that employees American workers.

I totally agree with you on this issue. I try to buy American made whenever possible. It just seems so difficult to find American made in so many products, and it gets harder all the time. After I retired I was hired back by the city to work on a ARRA construction project. I saw first hand how jobs come back when we demand American made. The fact is we don't and won't.

I have paid extra for American names before names before only to find out that the product wasn't made in America. Before the Timken plant here shut down they were actively pushing the limits on how little they could do in the U.S. and still slap the "Made in America" label on it. Of course, part of the reason for doing that was that some of their larger customers like John Deere were pushing them to outsource as much as possible to low cost countries. I have a friend with a Mahindra tractor that swears the only differences between it and a Deere are the paint and about $15,000.

I am actually OK with importing things so long as it is balanced. I would like to see importers have to declare their trade deficit and then have to pay a tariff on it. We could let companies that produce here and sell overseas sell trade credits, sort of like the carbon credits.