Will people pay for made in U.S.A.

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12. Raw material exports

The US is ranked 3rd in the production of cotton in the world.

The US is the top exporter of cotton, primarily to Honduras.

So this question of whether Americans would buy an American textile gets complicated when considering the materials flow. We use our resources to produce a product that we then ship somewhere else where they turn it into a finished product and then ship it back.

That means the ONLY Americans benefitting from this process is the cotton conglomerate (can't call him a farmer cause that's another individual industry that we don't have any more), the transportation conglomerate (driven by an industry that doesn't provide much in the way of labor benefits), and the retailer (another group that squeezes labor).

Add in the tax "incentives" and corporate welfare and we, the people, are being squeezed a number of different ways. And I won't even mention the traders and wall street guys who gamble on it (wait, I just did) cause it just p'es me off even more.

So the answer to the question remains: Not at this time. Not until we move the emphasis away from the corporate arena and into the individual's arena. Not until we break this propaganda network that pretends that it's to our benefit to be given a break by the corporations.