[PornoDoggy]

Finding the balance is the difficult thing.

I try to "buy American" where I can ... on a micro level, my neighbor is a lot more likely to be working for Acme widgets than he is for WhoFlungPoo Ltd; or to put it another way, MORE of my neighbors are likely to be working for Acme. Oh, I can understand the appeal of cheap Chinese shit to those that figure they are better than their neighbors, or those so into this or that philosopy of Economics as to depart from the practical level, but I think they are as wacked out as the folks who advocate we trade our cars for horses and go back to nature.

I see too many people who seem to think that the way to "level the playing field" for American workers is to lower their expectations instead of using access to the biggest market in the world to force changes in other places. One only has to read any post by Grogan on "style" to get an idea of how well trained the consumer base is here.

Look, EVERYTHING has a cost somewhere along the line. You get enough Joes who get frustrated after the fourth carreer they've trained for goes to Bumfuckistan, and you'll be taxing a dwindling portion of the population to pay for more of Mr. 9mm, and the folks to carry them.

Yes, I realize that both the above and the following are vastly overstated examples ... but at what point does Walmart become GUM?



Last edited by PornoDoggy at May 19 2004, 01:56 PM