Ya know, I was thinking about this very topic on the way home today. I picked up a utility light for my tractor and did not look at where it was made. It started to bother me that I hadn't looked and didn't know where it came from.
Then I thought to myself, is there an American (or at least North American) item made for every item made in China.........or more simply put, if we wanted to buy everything American made, could we? It is still possible.
Then I thought about some way that you could research what is and what is not. And there is a website usstuff.com where you can look and search alphabetically for any item you might be considering purchasing. I like that idea.
As regards the reason so much is made in China, greed plain and simple!
Buy cheap, sell at more profit.........trouble is we all support it because we all want the latest greatest gadgets and we all want 'em cheap! Consider for a moment all the things a cell phone will do..........internet surfing, video camera, text messaging, game system, GPS, the list goes on and on..........oh, and you can make phone calls with it too!
Consider 20 years ago.........even 10 years ago the price we were paying for a simple, basic analog cell phone...........consider what we can do with one now and the fact that we are, in a lot of cases paying less now than we did then...........how is that possible?
The biggest challenge is to realize that all these things we "need" to have are not really needs at all.........if we could get by with out all these so called conveniences we could likely cut out a LOT if not all of the stuff coming in from China...........is that ever gonna happen? Not a chance.
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