Posted on 12/19/2014 10:10:13 PM PST by Swordmaker
Have you ever seen a knock-off? He showed me the ones he was competing against. They looked the same, supposedly did the same thing. . . you could not tell them apart, if they were placed side-by-side. But the knock-off would no way last as long, or have the same output wave-form as the American product. . . or the one that he later had made to his specifications in Indonesia. There was no way a consumer could tell that from looking at the product or the specs on the packaging. WAKE UP! Quit trying to make excuses for the crime that has been committed against our people by our own government to extract our substance and our ability to earn our own incomes. We cannot fight the leviathan who can crush us with the might, money, and resources of the US government. That is what these entrepreneurs faced. . . and other businesses, small and large faced. You damn them for finding a way for their businesses to survive. You would have done the same in the same situation.
For that matter if you can't manufacture in the USA then find something else to do.
So, tell me. who made your computer and phone?
Exactly the point. A 10% tariff on all manufactured goods is in order. That should help, be a start.
All the founding fathers to a man were extreme protectionists. They had their crap together.
What make is your computer, your TV, your car, and your phone. Answer the question.
All of my electronics are made overseas as traitors off shored electronics decades ago.
Then you should buy an Apple iMac, better than 85% of it is made in the United States by American Workers, with only the minimum imported parts that cannot be made here. . . or better yet, a MacPro. Made in Texas by Texans.
Actually I own an i-mac. Drive Fords and Lincolns.
Right. It's "iMac" not "I-mac." I drive a 2009 Ford Taurus. . . before that it was a 2001 Chrysler 300M. . . but I couldn't force myself to buy an Italian owned Fiat after Obambi paid Fiat $80 billion to take it away from the share holders. . . Ford told him what he could do with his Auto industry bailout money. For that, I respect them. . . but I know that about 60% of my Ford is foreign made parts.
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