On 17-Aug-2010, Joe from Kokomo wrote:

I closed 2 plants when industrial output hit the skids, in 2004 and
2005. I
now produce overseas and you clowns pay through the ass for very
inexpensively made merchandise. I cannot change the U.S. because 98% of
"Americans" don't give a flying rats ass nor are they willing to
participate
in correcting the debacle. It's your, or you kids problem.

You may be right that we "pay through the ass for very
inexpensively made merchandise"...but that merchandise is STILL cheaper
(waaay cheaper) than stuff made in the USA.

The market sets the price, not the producers. You're paying what the market
will bear and as much as the sellers can get. Diminishing wages (via
diminishing output) is what diminishes wages.


Not so much as people "not giving a flying rat's ass" as much as it is
that people, many without jobs want, nay, need "cheap" merchandise.

They are acquiescing to shoddy junk that costs seemingly less, but then, now
there's nothing to compare it to as produced in the U.S (for the majority of
items)


If the American sheeple ever wake up and get wise, watch out! There
won't be enough tar and feathers for politicians of either stripe.

You can only dream that will happen - it NEVER will.