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If the goods are of acceptable quality and cheaper made offshore, good for me.

Because a few toys might be cheaper today but necessities might be lacking tomorrow. It happened before, it happened in other places too. We may not be close yet but the quickly rising debt + deficit + falling dollar + falling exports is an explosive mix.

Why should I subsidize inefficient manufacturers?

Huh? We are talking about expatriate producers. Why are they running out? Because they are efficient??? And does using (almost) slave labor qualify as "efficiency"? This question was supposed to be settled by the Civil War. Whip the laborer or be innovative. Deja vu.

They aren't lining up to give me any handouts. Why should I give them a handout?

Please, keep your change. There is no handout involved here. The legitimate price you pay ends up in the US or offshore. That's the issue. The drop in price is barely visible, just enough to undercut the domestic producer without unduly cutting the profits.

America has factories. America has farms. America has everything that Americans need in order to survive... What's in it for me?

What else do you want? Why is all that being exported? Why take economic and political risks? To stuff ourselves with pizza? Then have the privilege to pay the doctor? Rinse, repeat? Why not just be responsible, for a change?

And balance is not hard to achieve within the market. For example, deprive the expatriate producers of patent protection in the US. Because now companies export their production but use patents to stop the domestic producers... This country has such an enormous potential. It should be used, not kept on a leash for the sake of others.

What else do you want?

For you not to pee on my leg and tell me it's raining. I may have been born at night but it wasn't last night.

So when it all boils down to the nub, your suggestion is that US patent law should only apply to companies which manufacture goods in the US? That's so stupid it doesn't even deserve the sobriquet of "radical".

We've got a heck of a lot more to lose if foreign nationals don't honor our patents, and turnabout is fair play;