Has anyone considered the idea that the reason that we buy stuff from China is because they make it cheaper and are better at it than we are? If I send $100 to china for a set of clothes which is the most amount of clothes that I can get for $100 and the guy making the clothes sends me back $100 dollars for accounting services which is the most/best amount of accounting services for $100 we are both better off than me making my own clothes and him doing his own accounting. The fact that joe is up the road making half the clothes for twice the cost shouldn't dissuade me from getting the best deal. Joe can find something that he is better at or where his services are more needed. Now I realize that with a lot of developing countries you might be protesting the country itself but from a purely economic view you are better off with competition.

In a perfectly competitive and open market each country would produce that which they are most efficient or capable of producing which would make everyone richer. The question is what is it in the good ol USA of A that we produce more efficiently than any other country? Cheap plastic widgets or stuff requiring large amounts of unskilled labor are not one of those things apparently.