sockmonkeydave wrote:
For Christmas, my wife got me a spice rack.
It has spices from all around the world, things I have never heard of, from countries I can't find.
I bought her a wrap that was made of fine India silk.
I like the choices we have today.
We've always had trade with foreign lands since we learned to sail the seas. Even as a small child, we enjoyed the fine woolens from Scotland, Italian leather products, French fragrances and wines and Portugese pottery, Czech crystal, etc. But we weren't overrun with everything coming to us from outside our borders and much of it cheap lower quality versions from China of once-great quality from elsewhere.
Our troubles now aren't about the exotic spices and fine India silks that we can't produce here, or about all the other things that never were produced here. Disaster overran us when the bulk of what we can and should be producing here with our own workers was all shifted over to China. (and some elsewhere)
Need to get a little better balance going. But I doubt the ultra-cheap is going away anytime soon. Here on eBay, we need to start a search by skipping the initial lowest cheapest listings. I don't buy much of that anyway, so don't get tense having to sort through. I'm almost never doing a search that brings up listings of Chinese manufactured merchandise.
