A year without "Made in China"

[Bigerik]

Originally Posted by icenine

I think the train has already left the station on this issue.


I had the crazy thought that the banks should be made only to do banking, not trade in futures and investment incomes. In other words bring back Glass Steagal. We could leave the banking empire on Wall Street and move the investment empire to Detroit.
Office rent must be cheap

It would actually take a very small percentage of the populace deciding to avoid all things Chinese to scare the retailers.

[HarmanKardon]

One stupid question from the stupid little guy from Germany, please do not kill me for that folks...!

Why don't you Americans buy more American cars? Was it actually not to avoid that Detroit went to hell? A boycott of chinese stuff is for sure a nice idea Erik, but I think it would be much more important for the American economy to stop buying zillions of those crappy German SUV cars, for example.

[bobabode]

I bought a Ford.

[Rex E.]

Originally Posted by bobabode

I bought a Ford.

Sorry to hear

[Rex E.]

Originally Posted by HarmanKardon

One stupid question from the stupid little guy from Germany, please do not kill me for that folks...!

Why don't you Americans buy more American cars? Was it actually not to avoid that Detroit went to hell? A boycott of chinese stuff is for sure a nice idea Erik, but I think it would be much more important for the American economy to stop buying zillions of those crappy German SUV cars, for example.

Owning the German cars is about status and appearance here for the most part.

The original reason folks went the Japanese route in the 70's/80's was reliability and fuel economy. Something Detroit could not really offer until a bit later when they partnered with the Japanese companies.

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by Rex E.

Sorry to hear

I think it was made in Canada.

[Rex E.]

Originally Posted by bobabode

I think it was made in Canada.

My Chevy was with parts from Mexico.......go figure....

[MikeG22]

I'm sure most of the parts are not but at least it was assembled here.

[icenine]

Originally Posted by Bigerik

It would actually take a very small percentage of the populace deciding to avoid all things Chinese to scare the retailers.

I agree with your aims.....but at Walmart one can by a pair of new blue jeans for about $10 bucks (ten years ago you could anyway).....with such hard times and low wages that are a fact of life today it would be hard to get that shopper back to Levis at say $40.

When I was a kid my mom would take me to Sears and buy new Levi's for like $30 at the mall....maybe three pairs for the school year. That was a not an insubstantial sum back then in the 70s.

things are different now.

[Rex E.]

Originally Posted by icenine

I agree with your aims.....but at Walmart one can by a pair of new blue jeans for about $10 bucks (ten years ago you could anyway).....with such hard times and low wages that are a fact of life today it would be hard to get that shopper back to Levis at say $40.

When I was a kid my mom would take me to Sears and buy new Levi's for like $30 at the mall....maybe three pairs for the school year. That was a not an insubstantial sum back then in the 70s.

things are different now.

Problem here are Levi's are only "assembled" here from denim and buttons from out of country.