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American corporations with the help of this gubbamint have teamed together to destroy American manufacturing and our standard of living.

Look at China. It is an environmental disaster. Very little environmental/worker safety regulation. Their water supplies and air are polluted to extremes.

American manufacturing turned to China to escape regulation, but in turn used this lack of regulation to pad their pockets at the expense of the environment. Shame on them all.

Working little kids and young people 16 to 20 hours a day for paltry wages....all for the almighty dollar.

Americans....boycott these cheap Chinese goods! Look for the labels. Buy American products whenever you can.

Is the 3-4% cents on the dollar that manufactures “save” by off shoring and using slave labor actually passed on to the US consumer? I think not.

Boycotting Asian goods is a non-starter. Most of our durable goods are manufactured there and sold here at a low price that American-made goods just cannot compete with. The average American consumer only cares about price and so they will go to the Best Buys, the Walmarts and all the other big-box stores and buy on price - regardless of where the product is made.

There will also be plenty of jobs in the U.S. but many of them are going to be service-based jobs that cannot be exported. So if you can install/repair a toilet, install electrical wiring, repair a car, etc., there will be jobs for you here. If you want to work in a factory, good luck to you. Other than maybe some light manufacturing where it might make sense to keep the operation local (i.e. making cardboard cartons and plastic jugs for milk), most manufacturing is already overseas and stands to stay there until we get to the point where robots will take over everything.