Perhaps we bare some blame because we import so much of their junk. They’ve sold us pet food recalls, lead in toys, etc. They have slave rings to build the junk we buy. It’s very hard to buy anything made in the U.S. because it is so expensive because there is so little of it. But if we had more manufacturing, I bet the cost would go down.
I completely agree.
That’s one of the reasons I’m supporting Duncan Hunter for President.
I know he will stand up to the China threat.
Alternate markets exist which can compete with china on pricing for manufacturing for the US, but there is no way we can directly on most items. They are orders of magnitude cheaper in many areas than we can ever be. By this I mean that the problem isn’t that China is, say, 25% cheaper than making it in the US - they are more like 90-95% cheaper in areas I have been around or know people who have seen prices firsthand.