Are you responding to someone else's post? I never said anything even remotely resembling that.
I'm talking about small business, small producers, innovators and entrepreneurs connecting with their market directly via the internet. It isn't just the beer industry getting squeezed by micro-producers.
But they are trying to sell the same crap as importers, only at a higher price. Go to the furniture stores, crap from wall to wall and not a damn bit of difference in the domestic from the imports, exept the sticker price.
Then they whine for protectionism when they ought to be ashamed of the stapled junk they're trying to sell.
People WILL buy American, when they are getting a premium product worth the money asked for it.
"...we will pioneer the move to customized semi-massed production via internet marketing"
Basically, what you are saying is that the jobs going offshore represent yesterday's technology, and some new wave is coming that the US will pioneer.
and what I am saying to you is - where is the new technological wave that has made migrant farm workers obsolete? there isn't one. why not? because who would invest to make it possible, when the labor costs being automated are so cheap?