How to silence your friendly neighborhood free trader, quickly. Several times over, in fact.

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3. well some of us actually do attempt to find items bought in the US

I remember way back when the song "look for the union label." And you know what? Our family did look for the union label.

I believe in FAIR trade, not free trade. these corporations move to countries where they can exploit labor and the environment; when the workers start pushing back, the corporation makes a move to another country where they can do the same damn thing.

People talk about how the item is cheaper made with exploited labor. Everything comes around full circle. If people had decent paying jobs, then paying a little more for an item is no problem. Also, some of these companies, like rockport, have been penalized for upping the prices of their product by 300% and more. So, it makes little difference of cheap labor, when the company is going to charge a high price to maximize profits.

When you have ceos making 400 times the average worker, when it is way less in other industrialized nations; this country has a major problem with corruption and out right greed.

Yeah, well some of us still try to buy american made items, silly us. Oh, right, we're supposed to be the new service industry, forget those stinkin manufacturing jobs. How's the service industry working for ya? McDonalds hiring?