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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All these factories will be automated.  Is it better to have them in America  or China?[/quote]

It’s basic economics — it’s not worth automating if labor is dirt cheap (Bangladesh) but if labor is expensive, automation is cheaper (giant checkout lines).  There’s a point at which the two lines cross.  American manufacturing is now heavily automated — large custom parts are still made in the U.S. but often with imported steel. And the little doohickys that make the machines run are almost all made in China — even little things like screws, industrial staples, etc.  We don’t make those small parts anymore because it s so cheap to make them in China and ship them.  But for want of a nail, the kingdom was lost.

I’m a dem who has been appalled for decades about how we let everything go to China.  But this is the worse possible way to try to retrench on that.  Alsl I’m old enough to remember all the Buy American logos in the 80s back when Billy Joel was singing Allentown and Springsteen was singling basically everything he sings.  And no one cared.  They sang along to Allentown and then insisted on cheaper and cheaper products imported from abroad.  You can buy American made sweatshirts — but they cost 3x as much as the ones from the gap.  Or American made leggings — but they cost 5x as much as the ones made at Target.  No one cares enough about American manufacturing to spend more.  I hate Trump and his doll comment was stupid (and probably lifted from something he heard) — but there is truth to it.  If Americans would buy one sweatshirt and wear if for a decade, we could afford American made.  [/quote]

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