Reply #19: You might add that the QUALITY has diminished as well...

[rasputin1952]

Many articles no longer produced in this country, are pretty shabby, to put it nicely. You might as well also add that prices have NOT declined w/all of the garbage about keeping the wages down. In fact, they have risen.

So, for all of the corporate disposition that this is 'good' for the economy, we have sold our heritage as well as our job base to the highest bidder.

Every time we purchase something made in China,(or anywhere else), we are helping that nation to subjugate their people. Slaves are slaves, whether they are paid a pittance or not.

Soon, there will be a new awakening of the workers, (no, I am not a Communist), and people will revolt...worldwide. Those who have profited to such an extent that their profits seem obscene, will be driven from the halls of power, and the 'free market' will then again be free.

O8)