Sorry. I just think you are approaching it all wrong. Nothing personal, but your approach will simply not work.
We are conservatives here, so it is a more or less a given that free markets with capitalist underpinnings (the ability to make money and own property) are the engines that drive prosperity.
Where I take issue is your assertion that people have to stop buying all imported products.
It will not work. It goes against human nature. It is why capitalism works so well, because few things motivate like money.
What we need to do is make the industrial environment in this country attractive to investors both domestic and foreign, and allow business to do business with minimal government intrusion by decreasing legislation and taxes.
Again, nothing personal here. Your approach simply will not work, encouraging people to just not by imported products.
I agree rlmorel. We could look at it this way: Australia has a trade deficit with America (last year the US exported $26 billion to Australia and imported $9 billion from Australia). Should Australia stop importing from America?
I believe that free and fair trade between friendly countries is, on balance, a good thing.
China isn’t exactly what I’d call a friendly country but as it stands now they have America (and the rest of the western world) by the gonads in an economic version of the Cold War ‘MAD’.
How we extract ourselves from this predicament without killing ourselves is the challenge.
In a Free Market how do you compete with slave labor? Someone has got to call the Chicoms out on this might as well be us.