This blog was made in China.

For this blog, I checked all of my clothes and items in my house to see where they were made and most of where my stuff was from was China. Although I did have clothes that were from country’s like Bangladesh, Honduras, Jordan, Taiwan, Malaysia etc. most household items like lamps, clocks toasters or whatever were made in china. Why is it that we don’t buy anything American? What makes all of these country’s where my clothes came from common is that they are poor country’s that would have limited labor laws and low minimum wages. Almost everything we buy is from China and this has impacted our society in many ways. This has taken jobs from Americans because why would companies pay for labor here when it costs $3.27 in China. There are 5 million fewer manufacturing jobs in the us since 2000. If everything was made here in the United States then everything would be more expensive. Because we like to buy things for a cheap price, many Americans would prefer to keep buying all of our items from there. We’ve pretty much become dependent on china. American businesses and consumers buy half a trillion dollars worth of Chinese goods every year. There is no other source of goods that we can buy from as cheap and as large as china. But what if we had everything made in china. Well it doesn’t take an economics expert to know that higher wages means higher cost in production which would also mean higher cost for consumers. For example, an iPhone that costs $600 is made in china. if it was made in the United States, it would cost over $2000 dollars. This is the same with clothes, the pair of denim jeans I own cost me $69 at JC penny. If those jeans were made in the US they would cost more than $100. Americans want jobs to be brought back to America but they don’t want to pay for everything. We really just want to have our cake and eat it too.