On Sun, 10 Sep 2017 14:46:39 -0700, Gunner Asch
wrote:

On Sun, 10 Sep 2017 09:37:53 +0700, John B.
wrote:

According to Forbes
( Tom Ziegler, Aug 12, 2011 )

"More than half the amount you spend on products made in China
actually stays here -- going to American companies, workers,
marketers, retailers, and transport providers. The amount is at least
55 cents per each $1 spent, says a report from the Federal Reserve
Bank of San Francisco. So for that $70 pair of sneakers, $38.50 of it
boosts bottom lines here in the U.S."

About half of everything you see in Walmart and hardware stores is now
imported. And much of their profit is used to pay American workers,
so it's not the horrible thing many people make of it. If I can buy a
decent American sourced widget for a decent price, I'll buy it over a
Chinese import, but when the difference is 10x, I always go import.
That's why my shop is filled with Grizzly and Harbor Freight tools.
For the most rigorously used tools, I went with American, German, and
Japanese (Milwaukee, Bosch, Makita) name brands which held up to the
daily strain.


Unless you buy directly from China as I do.

I think the manufacturers pay for fake invoices which show a mere 45%
markup when it's likely 750% or better. I bought a beautiful jade
carving from China which would have been $50-500 over here. It cost me
$4.23, including delivery.

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butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet,
balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying,
take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations,
analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a
tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is
for insects.

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