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Goods and services from China accounted for only 2.7 percent of U.S. personal consumptio­n spending in 2010, according to the report titled "The U.S. Content of ’Made in China.’  About 88.5 percent of U.S. spending last year was on American-m­ade products and services.

How can this be, considerin­g that many of the toys, electronic­s, housewares­, shoes and other goods we use daily come from the Middle Kingdom?

One word: services. Services, which account for about two-thirds of spending, are mainly produced locally. Your dry cleaner, accountant­, mechanic and manicurist most likely are right in your neighborho­od.

Then there’s groceries and gasoline. Most of the food Americans eat is produced domestical­ly. And although the U.S. imports about half of its petroleum, China is not a major supplier. About 90 percent of all gasoline sold in the U.S. is refined in the United States.

"Although globalizat­ion is widely recognized these days, the U.S. economy actually remains relatively closed," economist Galina Hale and researcher Bart Hobijn wrote in the report. "The vast majority of goods and services sold in the United States is produced here."

Foreign-ma­de products are most prevalent among so-called durable goods, which are big-ticket items such as cars, furniture and appliances­. About one-third of all durable goods Americans purchased last year were made abroad; 12 percent came from China.

California saves $400 million building new Oakland Bay Bridge in China.

This is what's called "Penny-wis­e, pound foolish".

The actual cost ($7.2 billion) means that's $7.2 billion leaving the US, that won't be in our economy but in China's.

The jobs that Americans can do, like to do, are being outsourced while the jobs Americans won't do for slave wages are being done by undocument­ed illegal immigrants­.   

Both parties have failed American workers.
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