Could the US live without nearly a trillion dollars of Chinese goods? (health care, regular)
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And shovels: All-Steel USA-Made Professional Spades & Shovels - Garrett Wade The ones my grandfather bought in the US about 100 years ago are still in use, so I'm guessing these could be considered something to pass on to one's grandchildren. USA made!
Also, in this century, we have a thing called "google", and you can enter USA made and the item name that you are looking for, and get results!
Not sure where you are located, but many people across the US are involved in producing goods, and working for a living doing it.
Talks of ending trade with countries supporting North Korea and it's nuclear program could lead to ending trade with China.
But could the US survive without Chinese goods?
Of course it would never happen because like 90% of all goods sold by Trump family are made in China.
I think those hats are made in USA.
I'd have to go naked, if not for my old high-school clothes I've saved. My Sony camera, my "Roadmaster" bicycle and most of my power tools were made there. Even my arctic parka is filled with down from Peking ducks.
Would it be difficult? Probably. It might mean doing without cheap imported goods for a while, and yes, it would probably hurt our economy, perhaps badly.
Could we survive? Of course we could.
I have enough in my closet to last years, every thing I plant grows - I know how to fish n I used to have chickens, could do it again. So I'm good long as I get to work - 4 mi away
Check Amazon for the reviews on Chinese manufactured products, many work for a month or two, if that, making the cost per use very high. Investing in USA made products is investing in our country!
Geesh, they (libs/Dems) want to continue to give our business to China while bringing in illegal aliens to mooch off the system, free college, free medical care and free childcare. Who pays the bills? That's right, Daddy paid the bills. Well, the US isn't the libs/Dems sugar daddy and without jobs there isn't any taxes to support all the "free stuff".
Wrong idea. It is doubtful that jobs will return to the US that is really a different subject.
What would happen is you move jobs out of China. And that is what you want to do to force some action out of the Chinese. And Walmart would likely be an important part of such an operation. They simply begin to move procurement to India,Thailand, Cambodia, Mexico, Brazil etc..
And you do it gradually but consistently...the Chinese will read the tea leaves.
We have no right to what you are talking about since we have been occupying a good part of the world to protect oil and other resources.
So unless you claim that the USA has some kind of "rights" that other countries don't have...I don't see your point.
As it stands vast numbers of European, Japanese and Chinese...and Saudis and others OWN a large part of our economy. Factories, real estate, mining and much more.
That water is LONG over the dam. We decided to be capitalists and being largely "free market" capitalists means the highest bidder can buy as much of the USA as they can pay for.
Like the refinery that shut down in Texas because of the flood, the largest in the US, and owned by Saudi Arabia and Royal Dutch Shell. It's all one world just waiting for the politics to catch up.
How much crap do we really "need" anyway? Looking around me I could do without most of the material nonsense I have collected.
Though my vacuum sealer and crock pot are absolute necessities.
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