[familyop]

"Unless American labor drops below a buck an hour, then it's more cost effective to manufacture offshore."

And then who will buy those offshore products here, especially with ocean freight costs going up even much more? Importers have been crying about those costs for months.

Where will products to be sold here be manufactured? ...not overseas, IMO. ...maybe places like Venezuela, Brazil and Argentine, if our investors and officers want to get that anti-American. ...and if such practice is not outlawed here for defense reasons.

[durasell]

We have to get smarter. The whole service economy thing, in my opinion, is a joke. And what I think, we have to build things here that add value to the basics that are imported. For instance, we might not make the computer chip here, but we sure as shootin' better program it here. And we have to do a better job of programming it than anyone offshore can. The other thing is -- we can make things here that are highly unique and high quality. Harley Davidson comes to mind, even though I don't know that much about the company, but I do know there are several furniture manufacturers that are doing a booming business with high quality, very unique, American made products.