[Alberta's Child]

This article raises some good points, but it overlooks the effect that foreign trade has on supressing inflation in this country.

Many of the products we import -- especially those we import from a country like China that has a very low standard of living and pegs its currency to ours -- are artificially cheaper than they would be if they were produced here in the U.S.

[GailA]

Much of it is cheap junk, worse than what the Japanese produced in earlier decades. Much of it toxic to boot.