Originally posted by Pope: The Workforce Must Unite and Work for the Good of Everyone, or else I will be the end of us all.
To the same end, why not advocate that consumers unite against buying imported goods and buying only American products and services. Even when (and it will) cost more. The tech person from Dell is in India...hang up. The WRX is made 95% in Japan (I do not know, just for example purposes)..take a pass. No more cheap imported food or clothes, or furniture, or electronics. Just say no.
Good point, Dan. It would be great if consumers would consistently act in their own best interest by refusing to buy certain products. Two main reasons why they almost never do so:
1) consumers typically are not aware that they are undercutting their own interests by buying goods and services produced via outsourcing, and
2) a large number of consumers do not really have a choice; they have to buy the cheapest goods available because they earn only $7 - $10 per hour (poverty line wages). Only the high earners have the luxury of choosing consumer goods based on their policy preferences.
