Free Trade is a lie.  Most of the so-call free trade is the result of off-shoring of jobs.   For example, Hewlett Packard laid off 17,000 people and sent those jobs to China.  They setup a subsidiary in China who manufacture their products.  When these products are sent back to the U.S. they are counted as imports.  Free Trade people have an erection because America was just fucked.  These tactics have nothing to do with trade — they are off-shoring jobs.  Hewlett Packard made a few extra bucks but the destruction to America with companies doing such tactics is profound.  Let China produce products for China and let America produce products for America — but make it even more local.

Another trend in food is Localvore – people who will only consume food that was produced locally, e.g. within a 100 miles.  Money spent locally has a multiplier effect of 3 to 1.  That is, every one dollar spent by a consumer on locally produced food will create two more dollars for the local economy.  Spend money are  your local farmers’ market and confirm that the farmers are nearby.  Money spent on food produced by large multi-national corporations will not help the local economy — it will enrich other countries and a few rich shareholders.  Plus, these large companies pay very little American taxes.

Buying America isn’t enough.  Americans need to buy local and ONLY buy things outside of their local region that are essential.  In those cases buy it from sources as close to where you live as possible — buy it directly from manufacturers over the internet so that these people get more of the money.  Let your money be used to help your regional neighbors.  Socialize your money to help your region and employ your neighbors.    Don’t shop at stores like Walmart, Costco, Ikea, etc.  These stores are conduits for products from distant lands.   These companies are destroying America and your job will be next.

America is doomed.