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RE: Only 73%?
By mdogs444 on 6/22/2010 10:58:40 AM , Rating: 3
Since the 80s, our societies have embraced the idea of buying as much as possible from overseas, because, as consumers, we've decided we can't afford to pay our neighbours to make the goods and services we want.

Ok, that is very nice spin, but not entirely accurate.

First off, its not the average consumer who decided that they cannot afford to pay for our "neighbors". Its other countries are finding ways to produce good cheaper than we can, thus making their products more attractive. It's nothing against the actual workers themselves, but in certain cases, we see what's going on in these work places and we decide that its not worth it to us.

For example, someone goes to buy a car and see two cars priced relatively similar - a Toyota and a Chevy . If the Honda is offering more value at the same price, or the same value at a lower price - the choice is pretty clear. If you're going to ask me to pay an additional $2,000 for a car, not because its better, but because the labor costs are more expensive....good luck with that. Granted, Toyota may not be the best example right now, but you get the point.

The real fact is that our government including everyone from Congress writing new tax laws, to ever increasing environmental policy inflicted on these businesses, makes producing a product more expensive. When the average person goes to the store, he/she wants to get as much as they can for their money. We all know there is a fine line between cheaply made junk, and paying more money just because of where its produced.

Blaming it on not wanting to take care of your neighbors isn't true at all, and that wreaks of a Union talking point. The only real way to stop what you claim is "bleeding us dry", is to relax all the cost increasing restrictions put on companies - like the newly proposed Cap & Tax, and let companies try to make things cheaper and more efficiently without having to deal with regulation after regulation, when our competition is not playing by the same rules.

