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If buying a car not made-in-America can be considered un-American by some people, can buying a computer (or whatever the heck the iPad is), also be considered un-American?
This is a more important question than you might think. While our rate of net job loss has slowed down some, there are still more than 15 million Americans unemployed, not counting those who are considered “underemployed” or who simply gave up trying to find work.
When nearly 10% of the nation is officially unemployed, when certain ethnic minorities have much higher rates of unemployment and some regions have one out of four people out of work, is it un-American to buy products made in other countries?
I asked this question in depth in my new book, How To Save Jobs (you can download it for free here). The most shocking piece of information I uncovered was that fully 10% of our tax dollars (and probably more) is used to employ people outside of this country. America sends more than $260 billion dollars of our money, each year, to companies headquartered outside of the U.S.
You can employ a lot of people for $260 billion. In fact, America could employ somewhere between 2.6 and 10.4 million people for the amount of money we send outside America — and that’s just tax dollars.
Can you imagine how many people we could employ if we bought our goods from American companies?
Why it's "Un-American"
Fail? I THINK SO!
This is a more important question than you might think. While our rate of net job loss has slowed down some, there are still more than 15 million Americans unemployed, not counting those who are considered “underemployed” or who simply gave up trying to find work.
When nearly 10% of the nation is officially unemployed, when certain ethnic minorities have much higher rates of unemployment and some regions have one out of four people out of work, is it un-American to buy products made in other countries?
I asked this question in depth in my new book, How To Save Jobs (you can download it for free here). The most shocking piece of information I uncovered was that fully 10% of our tax dollars (and probably more) is used to employ people outside of this country. America sends more than $260 billion dollars of our money, each year, to companies headquartered outside of the U.S.
You can employ a lot of people for $260 billion. In fact, America could employ somewhere between 2.6 and 10.4 million people for the amount of money we send outside America — and that’s just tax dollars.
Can you imagine how many people we could employ if we bought our goods from American companies?
Why it's "Un-American"
Fail? I THINK SO!
