almost all your clothes and textile goods are imported, as well as electronics and home appliances. china is taking the furniture industry, its almost been completely gutted from north carolina. auto subasemblies increasingly come from china, so your car is part chinese. don't believe me, go to the chevy dealer and look at the sticker on an Equinox. and then let's start talking about FOOD. where does it increasingly come from? the US will be a net importer of food for the first time this year. need I continue?
most of the "american" stuff you buy these days are in the form of services, not goods.
and those same consumers who are so flush with money as you claim - why can't they afford healthcare or college costs?
Check it out. A Naderite speaks.
Let me guess. Because of NAFTA? The WTO?
Not my clothes, I assume you don't dress well. people don't want to work inthe garment industry. In fact, those working in the remaining ones are mostly cheap labor immigrants. Unions have destroyed the garment industry.
by textiles, I suppose you are including bricks etc? Then your wrong. Not one ceramic tile, paving stone, brick, or any of the flooring I have in my home is made anywhere but here. There is a reason for that. those things are HEAVY and the cost of shipping makes it more feasable to make those products here.
Again, if you are buying chineese furnature, don't invite anyone over 99 lbs to sit on it. You are begging for a lawsuit. I wouldn't buy it. I suppose there are some people who would, in a pinch or something. North carolina's funature industy is suffereing from other problems, it isn't because china has taken over the market, it's because union are gutting it too, plus the lack of technology. They can't compete. Interesting though, that those who make very fine furnature are still in business. I have always said chevy's are junk. I quit buying them after the last lemon I bought in 1980, and vowed to GM over the phone one time when I was waiting for my 4th transmission that I would never every buy another Chev product unless I had my car fixed that day. It wasn't and I haven't. SOME components are made in China for SOME cars, big deal. Again, some companies do not keep up with the times, and unions destroy others. There is nothing that can be made in China that can't be made here. So go ahead, make it and sell it. There are many other ways to make money than heating up clay to make bricks, or manufacturing goods. Americans are good at making money in other ways. Some industry just isn't worth saving and proping up for the sake of it. Americans keep whats good and profitable, and contract what is not. it's how we stay ahead of the game.