Unfortunately, your efforts are futile. Offshoring is and will continue to be the modus operandi. The ball has started rolling and will not stop. For instance, you need a flashlight to find "made in the USA" in a Wal-Mart store, or even a Nike store, which I have first hand experience, being a former supplier to Nike who has lost his job to offshore sourcing. The answer, in my own humble opinion, is to adapt. Observe what is happening and react to it before it leaves you in a situation where you are stuck, waiting for regulations or quotas against foreign made products. This isnt an answer that everyone wants to hear, but it is an unavoidable truth. Those same folks who are out of work or even hanging on by a thread, are those who are shopping at Walmart. It is a cycle that will not be broken by being passive.

There is no logic presented in the argument. Why "Buy American" instead of, for example, buying New Yorkian? If you live in New York should you not ensure whatever you buy is made in New York and New York only? Would it not be a horror if you were to purchase something from Ohio? God forbid Texas! Of course within New York itself one should shop local, only buying cars, air con, areoplanes and mustard manufactured on your own street, created by materials mined or whatever from your local park. Right? Obviously enough, that wouldn't work. The way to get the very best use of resources and materials, both for the money and convenience and so on, is by diversity of sources. If the very best aircraft, for the money, are made in Texas, buy Texan. What good would it do for people in New York to have to pay import tariffs, or charge taxes to "external" companies in places like Texas? How does paying more for a product actually help you? These things do not help YOU, they only help the companies selling to you - by making life harder for the competition that wants to supply you the same products cheaper. It only makes sense when YOU are the actual supplier, or employed by the supplier. Then of course you'd like high tariffs or restrictions on anyone else. That's plain greed and envy, nothing to do with being "American" or anything else. Why SHOULD people in America have to pay higher prices when they could buy the same thing cheaply from China or India? What right do you have to force them to pay more? If you live in New York what's the difference between China or Texas? You're still "exporting jobs" while importing goodies. For that matter, why SHOULD people in China be poor? What's the point of America being "rich" if you can't afford to buy stuff? For example, from China? Why should rich people be rich and poor people poor? Well there are lots of reasons perhaps but arguing for policies or government action to enforce that has nothing to do with fairness or ethics now, does it? In truth all you are seeing is the market balancing things out, just on a larger scale than New York and Texas. Modern telecommunications, the spread of language, more efficent transportation and so on, all mean that today you don't have to pay $80.00 for an item you could have for $8.00 - if you buy it from China. It's only a bad thing for those still trying to sell the same thing for $80.00 and losing customers. You should only make money in business, be it as an employer or employee, by making other people happy. Not by getting the government, mafia or some other mob to cripple your competitors at the expense of everybody else. W.