Buying a made in the USA shirt?

companies constantly use the "to keep prices down, and to remain competitive" excuse for the outsourcing of American jobs. I just returned from the mall, and found that I could not purchase a single "made in the USA" shirt. however, there were plenty of shirts made in southeast asia. most of these shirts were approximately $50, I would imagine that someone in southeast asia is making about 10 cents an hour, and can probablly produce 10 shirts an hour. with labor materials added to the equation, the shirt probablly costs about a dollar. yet it is sold for $50. Does anyone see the irony here?

I don't know why you could not find a shirt made in the USA. Many of mine are. Besides nothing is acchieved by complaining - If you are interested in finding and buying items manufactured in the US a simple web search turns up a number of sites that list or sell American-made apparel and other consumer items. below is a short list, find more via search.

http://madeinusa.com/
http://www.stillmadeinusa.com/
http://www.usstuff.com/
http://www.unionjeancompany.com/...
http://www.apparelsearch.com/america.htm...

if you opened a factory here in U.S. to make shirts, the employees would want a union, then they would want higher wages and health insurance and retirement and vacation days, sick pay, holidays paid, etc etc. You'd have to pay un-employment tax, half of their social security tax and so on and so on till you would have to charge $100. to make the same shirt,, and it would be lower quality cuz your American workers wouldn't have any pride in what they do and wouldn't appreciate the job.
Shirts will continue to be made offshore,,