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I don't think we can just blame China for everything. It's our own Corporations that outsource the products we used to manufacture right here. And not just corporations, either. Entreprenuers and small businessmen run~don't~walk straight off to China to produce "American" products on the cheap. Ask our beloved Back-Order-Bob how many Chinese stamps are on his Passport. Whose fault is all this? Our punitive tax structure, regulatory laws, and beaurocratic red tape make it virtually impossible for "Made In USA" products to compete in the marketplace.

Outsourcing isn't always bad for Americans, though. Look at the outsourcing the large Pharmacueticals do. They test their new drugs on Black Africans, and have done so for many years. They set up nice hospitals and invite the diseased in for free "treatment". This isn't new, of course, they used to do the very same thing in the Deep South.

What are we able to manufacture extremely well and sell globally? Land mines, hand held missile launchers, fighter planes, we can sell war to both sides of any argument. Any question why we won't sign on to the Anti Personell Mine Treaty? 156 Nations have signed, but no, not us. ...It's just that lately, we seem to have forgotten how to step aside and not get our own boys involved in the wars we create.

If ever there was a time for reckoning...