Its really tough to buy an American made $10 pair of plyers in Home Depot and pass up the Chinese made $3 pair, especially considering you are going to loan them to your children who will probably just lose them.We most likely can't compete on a making these small items, but at least we should be able to make the more expenisve technology driven items such as supplying our own energy and making our own cars. Yet we have so many competeing buinsess and environmental lobbies with thousansds of lawyers who don't want the US to do anything to improve our position in these vitally important economic areas. You are right, China is screwing us over, but when they are done for the day, our homegrown night crew comes in and picks up where they left off. Look at the French who have no place to store their nuclear waste yet are able to gernerate the majority of their electicity from this source. But here the enviromentalists and Hollywood has convinced people we will all glow in the dark if we build more nuclear reactors.