Just read this again. So if you buy a toothbrush, pen, greeting card, baseball cap or pennant at a ball game, lawn sprinkler, air filter for your car, dvd etc you check to make sure it was not made in China? Bullcrap again!!!!!!!!!!!!
1. toothbrush--made in U.S.A. (G-U-M)(bought it last week),I shop for U.S. products and take pleasure in buying them over overs. I buy imports by choice, not because someone has a gun to my head or because I'm too lazy to walk out of the store empty-handed. You are free to make the argument (as you are making, and hedgetrimmer had to be prodded to do so), that the wool in my baseball cap was imported "unfairly" from Peru duty-free under Reagan's CBI. I will proceed to make the argument that that precisely is the reason we need a FTA with Peru. The usual suspects will then twist themselves into knots explaining what the word "fair" means.
2. pen--made in U.S.A. (Cross)(haven't bought one for a while),
3. greeting card--make my own,
4. baseball cap--made in U.S.A. (New Era)(bought it years ago),
5. pennant--don't buy them they're gay,
6. lawn sprinkler--don't have one,
7. air filter--not from China (last time I checked), and
8. DVD--don't buy them.
Now, if you wish to discuss industrial chemicals (an industry in the U.S. that is humming right along, but complaining about energy costs) that's ok also. So let's look up the tariff-rate on polymolyalidocious and go from there.
And he expects us to believe that? LOL!