[libh8er]

America as a country does not make these decisions. These decisions are made by individual companies. Some might want their products made in Vietnam, some in China, others in Malaysia, a few in Indonesia.. and others right here in the good old US of A. Remember the software outsourcing hype of the 90s and early 2000s ? A lot of companies have now brought back their development onshore because for whatever reason it made more economic sense to them that way. And many others never left the shores of the USA to begin with. Point is these companies do what is right for them. Individuals making individual decisions for their own self interest - that's capitalism in a nutshell.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

Sigh.

I give up. Someone else please talk some sense into our fellow FR’er.

No offense, but trying to talk common sense with a “free trader” is like trying to talk common sense with an Obama voter...

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