Originally Posted by
kwrides
It's not about whether or not people at the store are nice to you. It's about everything in America being owned and manufactured offshore.
Nearly every bike in any given LBS is also made offshore. Should we boycott the LBS too? At a certain point, we need to accept that the only thing the US readily produces and exports is weaponry. Our economy is designed to import everything else at low low prices; this is the natural output of good old capitalism.
It's about politicians lining the pockets of those who would have Americans earning less, building trade deficits, and ensuring that the common American can no longer start a small business and compete locally.
Then why not target the politicians who embrace the "free market" and start voting into office people who don't believe corporations know what's best for us? Claiming to support local development and voting for parties that champion oil and auto giants is rather self-defeating. Yet we keep doing so.
If you find that 50 cents savings jingling in your pocket is worth the destruction of the American dream, so be it.
The American Dream never existed. The rich start out and end up rich. The poor start out and end up poor. The average person doesn't ever go from rags to riches, regardless of how often the rich encourage this fantasy to keep the working classes working for them.