Good post...yes products would not cost much more if made in the US than Communist China. In fact, the reduction in transport costs would make up any difference in labor costs
Too many folks on here are apologists for Communist China, and like a weak America.
Tariffs are better than Treason
Part of what is going on, is that China is (much) tougher on our companies in trade, than America is on Chinese companies.
The issue is, that Chinese companies are run by the Chinese government. I know there are exceptions. but China is a huge communist country.
American companies are out there acting in their own independent interests, in a country run by a handful of communist dictators.
China has set up a hugely efficient government which is focused on taking over every manufacturing business, in the world.
Just one generation ago, America held global leadership.
Now China exports more than America.
We need to wake up. China is beating America.
Right now. We are rapidly losing.
Wake up.
Bring back American industry.
But Treason is embedded in the very thought of the federal agent; he has been taught and trained to accept and support Treason as a matter of course.
This is why Fast & Furious, the literal arming of parties hostile to the states and providing them with legal protections, has been such a non-starter.
This is why Benghazi is no big deal
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This is why the leadership can sell you and your children into slavery, to the tune of $17 Trillion (with another $1.1 Trillion just added).
In short the spirit of Treason has been nurtured and embodied by the War on Drugs (WOD). You see, the WOD is justified on the idea that the congress can regulate intrastate commerce thorough the interstate commerce clause — To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes.
Now, as you can see the interstate commerce power is the exact same as foreign commerce; this means there is no difference between the attempt to regulate intrastate commerce as to regulate commerce occurring in a foreign nation. Indeed, if the federal government were to try to claim that power in a foreign nation, they would rightly consider it an act of war… and, obviously, the enforcement of that proclamation would entail the waging of that war (or the prior subjugation of that country).
So then, the enforcement of these usurped powers1. (regulating intrastate commerce) are a form of waging war upon the several states, which the Constitution plainly defines as Treason: Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.
1 — The authority to regulate another substance, alcohol, required a constitutional amendment which was since repealed. No such amendment has been effected with respect to the regulation of drugs.