Originally Posted by Longarm
Hi Earthwalker,
I just wanted you to know that sometimes I feel like I am on a soapbox when I start going on about exporting jobs instead of being made in our respective countrys. Buying local has gotten to be a joke for most items, when even candy mints are imported from somewhere else to the US. Last package I purchased came from Mexico.
No wonder fabric is so expensive, the shipping and handling charges have gone out of sight.
Thanks for listening to my gripe.
Longarm
It's not a gripe. It is a serious issue indeed. Business goes for the cheapest labor and low operational costs abroad. Last year in a news report I heard of cotton growers in India committing suicide because they could no longer subsist on the low prices they got for their cotton. Most of these materials are made for a few dimes a yard.
There are entirely too many profiteers involved in that operational food chain. When the jobs go abroad people must be allowed to buy in foreign countries without paying duties. In this global economy, duties are not due.
I get really red hot under the collar about this issue. If there is globalization then it should apply to the consumer as well.
I am going for a soap box now.