We only hold the cards to the extent that we have the resources we need in the United States. That is clearly not the case today. Look at the percentage of goods we import, from Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_United_States agricultural products 4.9%, industrial supplies 32.9% (crude oil 8.2%) The other stuff (furniture, toys, computers, industrial parts) we can start to make ourselves again, but we can't produce those things if we lack the resources to do the work. Speaking of which, if we bring manufacturing back from China, we will need to import far more oil and other resources to power the additional work, making us more dependent on OPEC. Not that I disagree with you on the issue of crap goods. We need to ban poorly made products and focus our manufacturing base on the creation of only very high quality products with excellent reliability and long life spans. If we are going to survive and maintain something of our standard of living, we need to become the world leaders in the sustainable living. On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Sam <[email protected]> wrote: > > But we sell the high end stuff that the rest of the world needs. China > sells crap like toys and cheap plastic thingys that hold a sponge to > your sing. If crap gets expensive we don't buy it from them. We only > buy it because it's too cheap not to have it. We can also easily > manufacture crap, we just don't have slave labor here so we would > charge more for it. > > In reality we still hold the cards. > > . > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:334484 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
