His answer would be restore the market's minimum wage by enforcing our borders. It will cause consumer prices to rise, corporations will hate it, but it's the true cost of goods sold (as opposed to undercutting reality and pushing families onto the taxpayer).
You can make stuff in this country. You can't make everything in this country, but (since MDMH doesn't want to talk about cars because, well, his theories don't work well in that example), look at beer. The "cheapest" beer is made in mass produced, hyper-efficient canned bottling plants cranking out light American lager. The cheapest food is made the same way. Consumers---dare I say some on these hallowed pages---don't always choose the lowest bidder on stuff. Well-made, craft products will always have a place in a marketplace full of insufferable snobs like some of the people that post here consumers with refined tastes.
People pay more for products labeled environmentally friendly (curiously, whether or not the product is net-net safer for the environment). We could have the same consciousness about where a product is made. It's just been easier, and certainly more easily digestible politically, to cut bait, surrender and ask the taxpayer to provide. Shouldn't we at least try before tendering our surrender?
