Buying From China Is in Fact Buying American ???

[veracious]

 excerpt  from the article.........

Recently I had a heated exchange with my neighbor Johnny. Johnny believed that the U.S. unemployment rate, currently hovering above 9%, would become even worse. The culprit, according to him, was China. With boatloads of Chinese-made goods coming this way, and empty ships going the other way, Johnny argued, we ran a huge trade deficit. This effectively exported U.S. jobs to China while we were importing goods from there.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesleadershipforum/2011/12/22/buying-from-china-is-in-fact-buying-ame...

After I read this article and the accompanying comments,  I am curious about what other readers think.

I also found another article about iphones that stated the workers in China number 130,000 and they assemble 137,000 iphones

daily.

Thanks for any comments.

[IOBA]

Ok, wow?   What kind of comments are you looking for?

I am not a big shopper.   I think I only like food and gift shopping.

By choice, I do look at the labels to see where things were made.   And maybe by unconcious choice, I certainly buy American often.   But that is me.   I do, when given the chocie, often choose NOT to purchase something made in China.   Or grown in China.

Maybe by default, I am not supporting China or the US.  

[dobirdsmommy]

Read the book The World is Flat. You will get a different view on life.

I read it for my thesis in my business class. My thesis was that buying overseas would kill the American Economy. I wrote it in 2006.

[IOBA]

I read that book a few years ago.