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Originally Posted by Jammer
The issue is all of the millions of jobs Americans have lost to China because they do not compete fairly...
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Yeah, it sure is unfair of those Chinese to make stuff that American businesses never bothered with - or if they did make it, never bothered to sell the stuff to ordinary people at prices they could reasonably afford.
Look at tools, for example. These days you can go into Harbor Freight or one of the other tool companies, and find the a range of tools - everything from simple autobody dollies to lathes & welders - that 20 or 30 years ago you'd have to order from a specialty house, at many times the price. Or tractors: if you wanted a small tractor for the family farm, you had to keep the old Allis-Chalmers or Massey-Ferguson running with spit & baling wire, 'cause American companies were only interested in big stuff.