The solution is just too simple. The American people need to start requiring the government, that works for us, when using our money to purchase all goods and services bought on our behalf, to be only from United States sources. That is what our founding fathers wanted.
The concept that they are saving us money by buying off-shore is bogus, as the jobs lost and subsequent lost income will eliminate the ability for us to buy any products at all. This can only exacerbate the increased unemployment, and cause company bankruptcy. Don’t be fooled, their intention is to grab more power by making us all poor, and by controlling more big business.
If Obama won’t help, the people can do it themselves. Let’s say 300,000,000 Americans each simply reallocated 1 dollar per day, spending 1 dollar less on foreign-made goods, 1 dollar more on American-made goods. (That’s $30 per month, per person, and it is not an extra $30 per month, but just where you spend it!) After a year, this would add up to $109,500,000,000. What could the real, productive American economy do with an extra $109.5 billion? How about 2,737,500 new jobs paying $40,000 per year?
The greed of us all wanting lower prices is also cutting our own throats in the process. The government and businesses, as well as the consumer has forgotten what made this country the greatest in history. To just flush it all away, and end up just another poor socialist country is a tremendous waste of our divinely inspired founding fathers vision, and the lives of all those that fought and died to keep us a free nation and a great Republic. – Read more… –JB
http://www.madeinusa.org/ is just one search engine. Invest in America, buy products labeled “MADE IN THE USA”
Matt @ Best American Arts on 09.09.2010
I couldn’t agree more. Local and regional businesses employ our family, friends, and neighbors. To strengthen our communities and keep dollar cascading through our economy, we need strong small businesses and entrepreneurs. It is their efforts that create most of the new jobs in America.
Imported goods are flooding the shelves of even small retailers like gift shops and galleries. American consumer purchases drive two-thirds of our economy so how we choose to spend our money really matters. Let’s make this the year of the American gift.
Craig Kohtz on 02.07.2011
If you believe it is economically beneficial for the United States government to buy only things made in the United States, then wouldn’t it make sense that citizens should only buy goods manufactured in the United States too? Should we pressure the government to stop all imports to the United States?
And if you think this is beneficial, then shouldn’t we take it a step farther? If I live in Kansas, it stands to reason that buying only products made in Kansas will increase the benefits of protectionism for myself, as a Kansan. And if I live in Topeka, then I should at least try to buy only things made in Topeka for even greater economic benefit.
Conversely, in order to put pressure on countries like Iran and North Korea, we should immediately lift all blockades, correct? Because by restricting their purchases to only items made within their own countries, we are doing them a great service.
“What protection teaches us, is to do to ourselves in time of peace what enemies seek to do to us in time of war.” – Henry George (1839-1897)