Originally Posted By: Bluestream
400 million dollars is peanuts in the big scheme of things. Also, your numbers are assumeing that everyone in the US will go out and buy a US made filer. They are not going to do that. Most people don't know or even care where their oil filter is made. Many don't even know what n oil filter is. You may get a few hundred people to buy them that are members here, and that is not enough to even be statistically significant. If you want to buy one for peace of mind, or to sleep at night I can understand that, buy the money leaving the country argument is very weak...
No, my basis was that 75%+ of the filters will NOT be made in the USA. If 99% of filters that are bought are made overseas, then the amount going over gets larger. Note my point... $400M is a small amount in the big scheme, but this is ONLY oil filters. Add every pair of pants, shirt, electric gadget, etc., etc., and the number becomes REALLY huge.
Originally Posted By: LT4 Vette
JHZR2,
With so many cash poor Americans just trying to make it and living in 'survival mode'... Whats so bad about shopping at Walmart to save a few dollars ?
I hate to say this but the amount of Americans struggling to make ends meet is growing so fast its scary. Walmarts sales spike when EBT cards are activated on the first day of the month at 12 AM.
You realize it is verging on "perpetual" (negative) motion, right? The more people shop at bargain basement for Chinese junk, the more those companies have market share and price pressure on manufacturing companies. The more pressure, the more the companies have to cut, sending more jobs overseas in order to meet a price target. So more of the laborer type loose their jobs because they get offshored to China. As a result, they need to buy even cheaper, driving more and more products to be made in China.