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Originally Posted by Ducimus
I'm unashamedly nationalistic. I don't think that EVERYTHING we use should be made here, but i think we should be making domestically at least the same quantity of goods that we import. I'd be happy with a 50/50 split. As it is, we import just about everything i think.
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That's not nationalism, that's common sense! The problem is the pricing, somewhere in the system from producer to consumer it's gone wildly out of whack, so you're expected to pay three or four times the price for something that was shipped several hundred miles around the world as opposed to something made in the next county/state.
Now, in a world where transportation costs are low then that makes economic sense, you go where the labour costs are cheap and cheerful, usually China or the surrounding area...but what happens when transportation costs start to rise, as they have done and will do because of oil prices...you got it, the consumer pays the extra cost.
Economic sense, for those in the middle, but then what happens when the transportation stops, because of war or a natural disaster?
The producer and consumer are both screwed, the producer has no native market for the things that he has making, and the consumer runs out of the imported goods and either has to move into being a producer, or die.
We've let economic sense overrule common sense too much, and it's going to bite us in the arse one day.