“On the other hand, we could have kept all those t-shirt manufacturing jobs in the US. Maybe your t-shirt would be $20 instead of $5. Would the result be you went about naked? No, you’d have five t-shirts instead of 25 t-shirts. An American would have a well-paying job and we’d save vast amounts of garbage.”

I like the casual way in which Mr. Petericke spends 15 dollars of my money. I wish I could return the favor with his money – I have a whole list of things I think he should spend his money on, instead of all the wasteful stuff he buys now. On the top of the list is “$500 for John Sabotta” followed by “New car for John Sabotta”. Hey, I’m an American too!

Here’s something to note carefully. If someone asks me to voluntarily buy American, I’d consider it. I might even do it. I often do. But if someone passes a law in order to force me to buy American T-shirts, then I will buy Chinese T-shirts even if I have to buy them from a street dealer, and I will do it for the sole purpose of defying someone who thinks he can spend my money for me.

If peterike is asking me to voluntarily buy American, I have no quarrel with him.