In this discussion, and others like it, the common themes are often that too much low quality/cheap goods are sold in the USA, thus making it hard if not impossible for USA factories to sell their goods, and also that foreigners took the manufacturing and jobs to their own country, making US workers unemployed.
This is true of course, but where I think it goes wrong is that it then gets angled towards blaming the foreign elements for all this. If a US factory is making product X and selling it just fine in the USA, then a foreign company comes along, offers to sell it for half the price, putting the workers in that USA factory on the unemployment line, then that's bad for the US workers but it's not the fault of the foreign company, it's the fault of the millions of Americans who bought the foreign made items for a quick saving (which they'll most likely pay for anyway when they need to replace item X again, and again....).
Americans seem to see foreign made items on the shelves and blame the country they came from for somehow infiltrating the US economy and destroying US industry. The reason there are so many cheap imports on American shelves is because Americans keep buying them.
The same applies on a larger scale. No foreign company has "stolen" US jobs. There were not elite squads of foreign factory foremen sneaking in at night, dismantling factories and shipping them off overseas. US jobs and factories that used to be in the USA were not taken, they were sold, or given away, or moved to make things cheaper for Americans, by Americans.
I've often thought on this forum that it is an admirable quality that so many US members specifically want to support their own economy. That attitude is very impressive and quite rare in many other countries. However, I have to assume that you are in an unfortunate minority because someone in the USA is buying the imports, and they're buying a lot of them.
I think the guts of what I'm saying is this. If you want to blame someone for anything along these lines, USA manufacturing, foreign imports etc, don't blame the country they came from or the people that live there, blame the collective millions of Americans waiting right now at the checkout to hand over their USD for the latest shiny thing that they probably don't need anyway.
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