re: #51 theheat

And when “Made in the USA” costs five times as much for virtually identical items, which are most people going to buy?

The pro-American sector usually screams “it’s just cheap imported crap” but the fact is it’s often as good, depending on the item. I’ve watched the quality of several agri-based imported items make a complete turnaround in as little as a year’s time. If consumers demanded more quality, the overseas manufacturers delivered, and still kept the costs down.

Look, no one says that there are easy answers to this stuff. But even Henry Ford understood that it was in his own best interest if his workers could afford his products. It’s the Walmart conundrum: “I can’t afford to shop somewhere else, even though I know that Walmart doesn’t pay their workers a living wage.” (I’m not just singling out Walmart, they are just a well-known example).