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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by Roadtrp I know I won't change the mind of the buy American folks, but study after study has shown that free trade is GOOD for both the American economy and the American worker. Remember Ross Perot and his 'big sucking sound' of jobs going to Mexico because of NAFTA? Never happened. Yes, some lower level assembly jobs DID go to Mexico. But more jobs were created in America because of the act, and they were generally at a higher level than the jobs that left. I buy American when all other things are equal, but I don't know that I would pay extra just to buy American. The prejudice being shown now against the Chinese is the exact same as the prejudice shown against the Japanese when they started importing to the U.S. over 40 years ago. We've made our peace with Japan. It will happen with China too. Just give it time. [:)] [/quote] Make peace with Commies???!!!!!!! I thought America was for democracy, but how come our biggest trading partner is COMMUNIST??? Do you know how the Chinese get treated by their government over there??? And so-called "free trade"; (read: Let's (India and China) Kill your country), is good for America?? Tell the people that know how to make molds, dies, machinists, industrial workers, steel workers that! America needs industry-It is what America grew and prospered on!! Look at the prosperity of once-industrial centers, like Chicago, St. Louis, Pittsburg, and others; then compare that with what they were like 60-50 years ago!! Yes, jobs that long ago were less well-paying, but everything was much, much less expensive too!! Not today! The Chinese who make so much of our products in America get paid what we did in the 1920s and '30s, yet once the stuff gets over here, instantly the company charges for the product what it cost when it was still made over here!![:(!][:(!][:0][V] And I WOULD pay more for a product that's USA made, I have before and will plenty of other times... I would type more, but I don't want to start a "flame war", All I want to do is prove to you that America needs industry! Oh, and think around for a while about what it would be like to be forced to train your foreign replacement, then have to go to Wally World or some other minimum wage job, I don't think it would be fun, and I don't care to ever find out, either. [:(!][:(!][:(!][:(!][:0][:0][V][V]
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