Perhaps the report, I read was wrong....unless this Nation's manufacturing base is staying here at home, and not moving abroad. Could it be the report was disinformation? Or could it be our clothing now comes from somewhere else, our toys now come from somewhere else, our basic right to consume yet not manufacture has been and is slowing eroding away?
I prefer American technology, remain, primarily here in America. Some would call me a protectionist. Well, yes to a great degree, I am a protectionist. I enjoy seeing Americans producing goods. Those goods when produced by Americans were and are the best goods of the lot. Mistakes do happen, and I suppose American Manufacturing left not because of cheap labor, but because the quality slipped? I really do not know, and Former President Reagan isn't here to ask.
Sometimes being in the dark is good, one can take a rest. Taking a rest now, be it dark or daylight, may be something our Nation should reconsider. To each their own. But for me, I see no gain for America without America produces the goods necessary for a possible time when a time of need for those goods may not be available.
I type this not to offend, but to request an opinion.
I don’t consider myself to be a protectionist either but anyone who didn’t see the flight of American jobs coming as a result of NAFTA is blind. Mexico is now on the receiving end of jobs lost to even cheaper labor in China.
A lot of this was probably inevitable with or without NAFTA but NAFTA certainly didn’t help.
I can’t help but reflect that when this was primarily at the expense of manufacturing jobs and blue collar laborers, it was just fine among some, after all it meant lower prices for products manufactured in low wage countries. but when high tech jobs started to drift eastward they were screaming bloody murder. Yes, in the interest of disclosure, I am a retired blue collar worker. I buy American every time I can.
Recently I needed to buy an appliance dolly. Menards had one at $89, made in China. I looked around and found one at Farm & Fleet made in the U.S.A. at $109. I bought the American made one.
I absolutely could not bring myself to vote for Ross Perot. I and a bunch of other people saw what was coming with his candidacy. That and Bush Sr. reneging on his “no new taxes” handed the election to 8 years of the horrors of the Clintons. Now, we have the most evil half of the Clintons wanting 8 more years.