Hey 320,
Really dude? You didn't understand my question? After the word salads you toss out? LMAO.
I'm a very good reader, but a lousy mindreader. It did cross my mind that the "problems" with the two sentences about which I asked may have been the result of your having merely made some typos. That kind of mistake is actually what I figured was the case, but nonetheless I didn't understand what you meant; therefore I asked for clarification. That "word salad" remark as part of your response to my honest question was entirely unnecessary.
Look back at what I wrote.
I don't understand the sentence fragment that appears as the sole element in your third
paragraph. The sentence fragment you penned is, "
While sending a strong signal that the upper wage earners support American producers of quality goods." I understood what came before the sentence fragment.
I also don't know what "that" you mean, and the reason I don't is because the
relative pronoun "that" (as opposed to the conjunction, adverb or adjective "that") needs to be preceded or followed by the noun to which it refers and your question didn't include the requisite noun (noun equivalent), and seeing as the question is stands by itself in a single paragraph, I don't know which of the nouns in the preceding paragraphs you mean, or even whether you mean some noun not specifically mentioned in your post. The question you asked was, "What would have been wrong with that?", and my question was "what 'that'?" Were there another sentence in the same paragraph as the question I may have known "what that?" you meant.
Thankfully, you have revised your question and presented as follows:
[W]hat is wrong with supporting American companies FIRST? Particularly when you are financially able.
There is nothing wrong with one's doing that.
The reason I shared the anecdote about my recent suit shopping is to point out using a specific and personal observation that "made in America" can and in some cases does cost more than made elsewhere, all the while providing no apparent and commensurate "bump" in quality or performance. Also, the specific price points of the suits I noted is less the point than is that the American made one costs more. I think it'd be interesting to learn what observations others have regarding the price of American made and foreign made garments at stores they patronize.
I wonder if one can even find American made garments in stores that don't sell clothes that are minimally somewhat pricey? But for the fact that the clerk in the store I visited pointed it out, I wouldn't have known what suits they offered were in fact American made.
FWIW, I have enough knowledge about wristwatches that I could have made precisely the same analysis among about four American made watches (I know of six American watchmakers/watchmaking companies) and their foreign made (Swiss, Japanese and Chinese) counterparts, but I figured folks would find it easier to relate to a garment instead of a watch. Because I felt folks "relate" well enough to "rags," I also felt I could "get away with" not having to detail the specific traits and attributes of them that do in fact contribute to higher and lower production/materials costs. In contrast, because I think few folks give a tinker's dam about watches, I'd have had to write many paragraphs explaining them before I could even get to the economics in play.
You make a substantial.amount of money. I give as evidence of this your clothes shopping experience. You were shopping for suits costing as much as 1000 dollars or more.
Look back at my post. You'll find that what I said was that I was shown a variety of suits; moreover, I didn't indicate whether the four suits I noted were the only ones I was shown. I did not say or intimate that I was or was not seeking suits priced at $1000 or more. The only thing one can say for sure is that the store I went to offers suits priced between $400 and $2500, but nowhere did I indicate how much I was willing/aiming to spend, nor did I note what I did spend. (As a matter of fact, the first thing I did upon speaking with the sales clerk was ask whether their tailors could perform any needed alterations and hemming within at most four hours and the second thing I asked for was to be shown my choices in dark blue.)
There is one sentence in that entire post that expressly hints that I
might make a "substantial" amount of money, but the information I provided about that particular shopping experience itself isn't it. (And, no, I'm not suggesting in any way that I don't earn a good living.)
You chose the foreign made suit because it was cheaper.
Look back at my post. You'll find I didn't indicate which of the suits I bought.
The question was why upper income people are so cheap that you couldn't support the American made product by paying a few dollars more.
I don't know that upper income people are or are not as cheap as your question presupposes, nor do I know whether penury, assuming a given upper income person or group thereof is indeed niggardly, has anything to do with whether they will or won't buy American made products that cost more than do their foreign made substitutes. I also do not know whether and to what extent the desire to buy specifically American made products factors into upper income people's buying decisions.
Though I can generalize about how and why wealthy people spend what they do on the things they do and why, I prefer not to do so in response to express questions about the matter because I'm not an expert on the consumer behavior (economic or otherwise) of wealthy people as a group distinct from non-wealthy folks. You may find the answer to your question
here or
here.
