You'd have to turn the clock back, when we were industrializing Asia wasn't competing, shipping and communications were expensive, etc. I've heard that for man

You'd have to turn the clock back, when we were industrializing Asia wasn't competing, shipping and communications were expensive, etc. I've heard that for many mass products China can get things onto the shelf for less than US manufacturers would have to pay for raw materials. On that extreme end I just can't imagine us producing those items. Of course it's a sliding scale, I pay a lot more for certain types of goods that are made close to where I live but it seems foolish to extend that approach to everything.