Have you ever considered banning things made in China?

I am currently reading a book called A Year Without Made in China. it is a family's attempt to go without buying anything that has a label that says Made in China (duh).
Personally I think this is a fantastic idea. I'm no patriot, but I confess to getting angry thinking about Americans losing their jobs to Chinese factories, especially thinking American corporatons stay rich while their former employees get poor. I know there have to some strong feelings on this.

I have been checking things I have purchased in the past year, and just yesterday, I found the first one marked Mane in the USA. Not only that, but it was actually PRINTED in the USA ! It was a urinal I bought for my uncle because he is broke and only lives on a pittance from Social Security and $4.65 a day on food stamps; although he had worked hard all his life in a factory.

I don't know when the American workers are going to stand up. All too many vote for for "pro business". And they just shaft them every chance they get.

I though it was ironic......a urinal, as in Pee-on; get it?

have you ever considered reducing your purchasing power by 20% ???

In Germany we do NOT LOSE JOBS ANYMORE TO DEVELOPING COUNTRIES... we have a net gain now.

The problem might be that you need interesting products to trade to them which are heavy infrastructures, engineering etc.

i think that there needs to be reform...the government and other companies need to bring jobs back to the united states no matter how cheap it is to usethe chinese workers. the first step is having somthing here before doing anything to the factories in china.

we should.

I am 30yrs old and since I was 4 my father has always refused to buy anything with a "made in china" tag on it. This has actually cost him more because china stuff is generally alot cheaper. He dosent care though. I myself do buy "made in china" because we have 6 children and cant afford to do otherwise. Its just alot cheaper.

You'd have to start with banning the Clinton campaign. That was definately made in China.

I would have to ban myself. or...

Try to find a good pair of tennis shoes that were NOT made in China and cost less than a weeks wages?

Yes!! I have.

It's a little difficult, though, considering most things they sell in the US are made in China.

One of the reasons I never went back to Walmart. Have you ever been to a Walmart that sells ONE single thing that's made in the USA? or that's not made in China, for that matter??
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I have seen an interview with the woman who wrote the book you are talking about "A year without Made in China". She said it was very very difficult to find items in stores that were not made in China. I think you would have to go to speciality stores to find items made in America or any other county besides China.

But you can look at it this way as well...if you boycott places like Walmart and Target you may put Americans out of work since many thousands of Americans work for those companies.

Or you can view it this way as well. During the 1970's and 1980's many Americans said buy American cars and not Japanese cars, Americans were losing automobile manufacturing jobs here in the States to Japanese companies. So if you were to follow that same logic today you would put out of work thousands of Americans since most of the Japanese cars are made right here in America. My Honda was made in Ohio, USA. Most of American cars are made overseas now but mostly made in Canada or Mexico, and assembled here in the US.

Well Mattel didnt have to worry about these problems before the early seventies,when their plant was in Hawthorne Ca.Do think outsourcing is a bad thing,yes and no.On a free market I can understand why.As for the American worker,it is a problem.Do I think we are making a mistake giving economical future to a Communist country,that can eventually,create a world economy problem,and further create problems in American and free world markets,I think we are selling out our future somewhere.But the best way to defeat socialism/communism is to import capitalism,and capitalist ideas,so we are in a catch 22 situation.I'll buy American where I can.