Yes, we actually do buy bottles from China and make the stuff which goes into the bottles. That is smart business. And we sell to China.
If the Chinese government is making Chinese products too cheap, how are Americans being taken advantage of? It sounds like Americans are taking advantage of foolishness of the Chinese government.
That's a very short sighted vison you have there.
Imagine for a moment that China did not provide anything to the US or any other country for that matter. Then we are left with whatever other countries can create for us or whatever we produce ourselves. The stuff we make ourselves is very important in times of war, or when that other country that makes all the stuff decides they will cut us off (especially in times of war). Being prepared is something every country should strive to be. We have simply grown way too dependent on other nations for our needs. One of the points that Mark Levin made in his segment is the fact that don't have the ability to create ships for our Navy at a pace that even comes close to China. That is going to come back to bite us if we don't get more self sufficient and improve our trade deficit issues.
When you purchase slave labor goods and service's from China (we're all guilty of it), you are essentially approving of slave labor due to your own greed and desire to get something for nothing. That comes at a cost eventually. Maybe, not today, but eventually we end up with a nation of dummies that have no idea how to create anything anymore. We need another industrial revolution that can build the economy back in a way that serves the whole nation (and nations abroad) and not just a few companies that want to make a buck. The cycle has run it's coarse, and it's time to be self sufficient again or perish due to lack of preparedness.
China had one of the largest industrial revolutions that extended well beyond the amount of years in our past revolutions. They did it at the cost of their people working very hard at low wages and little regulations which caused many health issues for their people. Notice they have many many people in their country in spite of this abuse. That's another problem we have here, because there just isn't as many people that have good decent families that keep producing more and more children. And no, this doesn't mean we should open our borders to let anyone in and become a citizen. Should we have more legal immigration? Yes, and we need the smart hard working ones, not the lazy non-assimilating one's.
Now imagine that they put all kinds of regulations on their (China's) businesses and paid the workers what we would typically call a fair wage over here when they first started their industrial revolution? Would they have been able to do what they did and sell their products that cheaply? In addition, they decided to keep other countries products out using tariffs. So there is a trade off, isn't there? We will never be able to make things as cheaply as they do because we don't abuse our workers and there are too many regulations. The only thing Trump is asking is to trade fairly without any tariffs at all. No currency manipulation, no pushing products through other countries to get around the tariffs, etc...
In addition to the tariffs, cut regulation, cut taxes, cut spending and make the government more efficient with less, and have another industrial revolution in the good old USA. If you focus just on the tariffs, you miss the big picture plan that is unfolding.
