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.
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.
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.
I own 3 bikes, none of them were made in the USA. I agree with you about bicycles, and if you go back in this thread, I told the OP to buy the Walmart bike if it was what she really wanted.
My recent reply was to a post that had nothing to do with "buying a cheap bike", but was about Walmart being
good because he had some change jingling in his pocket. For that reason, I stand by my comments.
I agree with you about backing up what you say on election day. I do, and I hope everyone else does too.
I do NOT agree with you about the poor not being able to rise up, but I do get your point and agree that 75% or more of the extremely wealthy got it from their parents. However, I don't think having the dream to open a local hardware store that gives good advice, teaches people, and wants to be a part of the community is looking to get wealthy...and this is the kind of store Walmart has killed and I
loved.