[central_va]

You can also blame the consumers who chose price over the Made in USA label.

When you factor in all the middle men and markup and profit taking the savings are nil to the end customer. Add in little or no quality control and defective products that have to be replaced the cost actually went up.

[TwelveOfTwenty]

Not to mention the tax payers that could have paid into our infrastructure and military paid into China's instead.

And that's not all. Remember those stimulus checks from about 12 years ago? Nice gesture, but everything we could buy with it was made in China. The money bounced around retail for a while but ended up back in China. We ended up paying them twice, once when we bought the products, and again when we paid back the money we borrowed for the stimulus checks in the first place.