Date: 2012-01-08 05:02 am (UTC)
Lisa doesn't say that, and we don't mean it. In fact, she routinely buys things like some custom electronic components from Lichtenstein, and she agrees that Made in Japan is often quality. But what's happened is that China has flooded the market with cheap, cheap junk, in an effort to drive everything else out of the market. And, to a great extent, they've done this by ignoring most environmental and labor rules that we've imposed upon ourselves, polluting their environment and putting their people to work in conditions that we wouldn't stand. Worse, they've been actively working to make it difficult to impossible to bring the jobs back even if they are producing cheap junk, but trying to purchase the intellectual property and the companies that design things as well.

Again, I'm not against all non-US-made goods. I'm against the predatory trade practices that are destroying pieces of the American economy. I want fair trade, not the Bigwigs' attitude of "Let's offshore all of our environmental problems and throw all of our workers on unemployment compensation. After all, it won't hurt me; my money is in the Bank of Dubai."
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