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You are right about one thing. All appliances these days are overpriced junk, from any corner of the world these days. Planned obsolescence taken to the extreme. GE or LG pick your poison. In the end we only have ourselves to blame, it all goes back to WalMart if you are old enough to remember when they started under-pricing every corner store in the nation until, lo and behold - every corner store was gone, along with every small town hardware store. Why? Because we wanted to save a few pennies on milk or paper towels. That's when we took the teeth out of our monopoly laws and decided that cheaper is always better. Bigger corporation must be better, right? Because every dollar is a good dollar no matter who or what is destroyed in the profit making.
Okay we don't disagree much. Walmart at first carried American made products as much or more as any other retailer. I don't excuse Walmart's later business actions, but the trade deals and outsourcing were dependent on government policy. The US government favored imported products and consumer more often than not weren't given an option.
Who knew so many liberals were for low tariffs or taxes ostensibly to keep prices lower? What other taxes would liberals like to lower to reduce costs?
It's laughable to call it the "Clinton/Obama globalization of America" and speaks of personal bias, nothing else. That globalization began long before Clinton/Obama. In the late '60s RCA manufactured vacuum tube parts in Harrison NJ, boxed them up and sent them to Brazil to be assembled by cheap labor, then shipped them back to the US to be placed in inventory and there's little doubt other companies had similar operations.
That would be as opposed to the Trump idolaters who are more like the followers of Jim Jones, believing everything they're told with little need for anything remotely close to factual support of what they believe.
LMAO...Republican are protectionists now, who want to protect American workers from globalism!!
LMAO...Republican are protectionists now, who want to protect American workers from globalism!!
Trust me...I’m just as bewildered as you!
There's been a "protectionist" wing in the Republican party for decades. Did you think we were all neo-con globalist and Bush followers?
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