Should We Manufacture Our Own Goods?

[EnlightenedChosenOne]

Think about the JOBS this would create.

You guys love JOBS right?

[Englebert]

The American people have shown over and over that they/we will buy cheaper goods over American made goods. So for America to manufacture our own goods, we have to make them as cheap as other countries. How do you suppose we do that...and continue to pay our workers a "living wage"?

[stevenash]

I much prefer for the markets to determine who manufactures goods and where they are manufactured than to have the government do it. We can readily improve the jobs situation not by more government intervention but by government getting out of the way. Keystone pipeline is a great example of jobs waiting to happen. If one believes that we should somehow mandate that we buy only what we produce, he or she ought to consider that we would likely lose some jobs for people who are involved in manufacturing goods that are exported. I would also be willing to bet that there would be more full time jobs right now if Obamacare did not exist.

[TROJANSWIN]

For a long time in the history of the U.S. the government was completely supported by import tariffs.