The thing that gets me is that the American branded items that cost 5-10 times as much are only assembled and packaged here, if that, and are still made in China.
It's time we learned from history, we built the war machine of Japan that attacked us and we are doing the same thing with China.
This time we are worse off because we have offshored all our base industries to foreign countries, including oil and mining, and can be cut off at any moment.
Yes and meanwhile a lot of us 'outsourced' technical people are getting close to retirement, so if anyone DOES want to de-outsource (if that is even a real word), the people like me on this side of the pond, won't be around to do the work.
And the college kids are being told by their parents and others, NOT to go into any computer-related areas or they will be outsourced.
Talk about shooting ourselves in the foot. feet. whatever.