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To: cba123

A side effect of capitalism is that we believe being able to buy the cheapest product is a result of reasonable market forces driving down prices.

...except it is not - but the fault isn’t with capitalism, it’s with an uneven playing field. Our economy could accelerate to “light speed” if we all spent a few bucks more on an item if it were built here.

It’s a concept that is very hard to deliver to poor people, “spend more and you’ll be better off”. If you pay more for a coffee mug that is made here vs. in China, it’s just a buck...but it means a great deal to the economics of where it is made, it encourages making it here. Once there’s more jobs, too many in fact, wages will rise.

Too many politicians have been too willing to sell out the American people, making deals that benefit only the corporations, when we could have an environment that can benefit everyone. Deals that just make products cheaper (via cheap foreign labor) are short term corporate gains that don’t help the working class. It may help the stock market in the short term but hurts it long term due to the inability of the American people to purchase products.

Buy American. It isn’t just a slogan, it’s an economic principle with deep ramifications...especially for the low income folks. I can afford it, as can many more as jobs are brought back here - it’s a fly wheel, the more you buy American the more American’s can buy American.


42 posted on 09/19/2017 9:40:55 PM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing consequences of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: fuzzylogic

I thank you for your reply.


54 posted on 09/20/2017 12:15:37 AM PDT by cba123 ( Toi la nguoi My. Toi bay gio o Viet Nam.)
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