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Will the U.S. economy get better if no one is buying products/services that are made in America?

Look inside your closet. Randomly pull out a few items and look at the tag. Where was it made? Go to the Mall and ask the store owner if they have products that were made in America. When it comes to cars, what is the most popular car in this country? Is it GMC, Chevy, Dodge? Or Toyota? When it comes to U.S animation and cartoons, why are companies like Nickelodeon, Disney, Warner Bros., to name a few, outsourcing them to countries like Korea, the Philippines and other. India has been known to handle IT level support. How long has this been and why can I not understand what they are saying. Why is Microsoft offering free certification to India when it cost up to $3000 dollars for me to take it. Why is the U.S. Government allowing U.S. companies to outsource work in places that are politically volatile and be used against us. Mike Rowe from Dirty Jobs Writes the President: http://www.armedpolitesociety.com/index.php?topic=19149.0 I see the boys are out tonight. It truly makes me feel good to know that I've emotionally affected someone. But to affect two? Dare I be Machiavelli? My very user-name alone should have given this away. But, still I wrote the question. Do I really care about the topic? Should I? Can someone else come up with a better answer...

Public Comments

1. Get a grip. About two thirds of what we consume in the US is produced in the US. That's less than it used to be, of course, because it makes economic sense to produce things wherever they can be done most efficiently. How exactly would you be better off paying more for things that could be easily produced elsewhere. How much do you think coffee would cost if the only supply was what was grown in the US (essentially, Hawaii)? And, similarly, do you wish that Toyota and Honda and Nissan and Mercedes and VW would all close their US plants so that they can manufacture those cars more expensively in Germany and Japan?
2. As is often the case SDD beats me with a good answer. Why don't you pull your head out of the closet and look around town? You are surrounded everyday by people selling you domestic goods and services. You only spend a small portion of your money on manufactured goods imported from other countries. You spend by far most of your money on other things you cannot get from overseas. I don't have to ask details, I know that for a fact and you can't disagree. Like all the rest of us, you have discovered (whether you realize it or not) that you are better off outsourcing some of your needs to foreign sources. That frees up American labor and YOUR money to do things that only local labor can do for you, from teaching to healthcare to lawyers to accountants to food service to retail to rent to plumbing to automotive repair to internet access to cell phone service and a million other things. Instead of making silly trendy complaints, why don't you pay attention to how you already spend your money, and think about what that means.