Eric S. Sande escribió:
> Besides when you order from China, you have to figure out if it's the real thing,
No you don't. It's guaranteed to be junk, even if it's designed and
supervised by European engineers.
I'm guessing that won't be a popular statement. But I KNOW that
Americans can do it better. Our audio products are better, our
bicycle products are better.
The only problem is that they are expensive because we actually
pay good wages and don't use slaves (anymore).
The original question was about buying foreign products from foreign web
sites. When I buy US made products, if I can find them, I either buy
directly from the manufacturer or find them locally. There are plenty of
excellent products that aren't made in the US. It would be better to
find more excellent products that are made in the US. We need more
manufacturing here. Americans are very good conscientious workers.
US made products aren't much more expensive than those from southeast
Asia, but the profits are higher on imports. I'd rather pay more for a
quality product, but when it's something that's not made in the US any
more, I don't have much choice.
There are more slaves in the United States than 150 years ago. Many are
in manufacturing, but most are women in sex trade. It's not as bad as
before the Civil War, as a percentage of population, but some recent
estimates are at least 1 million. They sew our clothing in L.A. and NYC,
they're farm workers in Florida and California, they worked on the
cleanup after Hurricane Katrina, they're au pairs. You may have seen or
met them.
I don't think slaves make high end electronics in the US, but I don't
know for sure. Do you?
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