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Originally posted by seretogis
It is up to the US consumer to demand higher-quality products (i.e. products made in the US by skilled workers) but until then you can expect to see more cheap shoddy products made for $1 and sold for $80.
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Heh, you sound like someone criticizing crappy Sony product in the 1970's. I think a lot of manufactured goods coming out of China are extremely high quality. In fact, I think China has far more manufacturing know-how than the USA at this point. Many "top-of-the-line" products, such as iPods, for example, are made in China or Taiwan.
On the other hand, I think the USA could do more to convince people to "buy american" - I was reading that the Indian government has a pretty extensive "buy from India" campaign. I don't see anything wrong with the USA spending a few million to educate people on where their money goes.
In fact, given the current republican administration, I think this would be the proper "free market" way to approach the issue. The government spent many millions on FreeVibe.com and a mostly silly anti-drug campaign, we could spend equally as much on a Buy American campaign.
The main problem would be that there would be entire classes of electronic and textile products in which not a single product would be american-made. Maybe a better campaign would be to focus on "buy from free countries".