Dogs Snarling Together

This essay was interesting for about the first 5 pages and after that it became a series of historical facts that were somewhat hard to keep up with. I honestly didn’t know much about the textile and apparel industry at all until I had read this. All I knew was that I liked buying cheap shirts that were sold in a department store and probably came from china. I guess it never really crossed my mind to think that china and other foreign imports were slowly making more and more U.S. factory workers jobless. I was never much of one to care about the quality of my clothing or big into brand names. Clothes are clothes no matter where they come from.
Although Auggie had a very noble and nationalistic cause it seemed that he didn’t completely understand all the logistics of his argument. Julia Hughes seemed to have a more worldly and open-minded view to the import of textiles and apparels. I feel like this is more of where my state of mind lies as well. Due to my multi cultural background I don’t seem to have much national pride. I find imported and exported goods everywhere but I suppose I never really considered the consequences of such things increasing or decreasing and affecting the economy. It is a sad thing America is so far in debt to china that they can’t afford to not take more of their textile and apparel imports. That way many factories wouldn’t have to take such a hit, although the economy is down right now for a number of reason. Yet our debt to china is still somewhat of a crippling factor for this country. In reality I suppose we don’t really need to import that many things from other countries but because we are so readily available and seemingly stable with a better economy than most countries then we are in a sense a dump for imports.
I had no idea about the amount of political play involved in this dispute. I found it to be somewhat astounding as far as Auggies’ argument goes over the broken promises from the president. A broken promise a broken promise, but with the amount of power the president has due to the limiting factors of other political power players, he can only do so much. More people with jobs in America would be a great thing but that is looking within the boundaries of the US only; but what about the third world countries that are providing for thousands more because of this industry. There is the nationalistic way of looking at this and the betterment of all. I suppose each country has their own economy and everyone kind of feeds off of each other but it still seems so small of a thing to be arguing about. This world has many up and coming industries that require many factory workers and as one falls another one will rise. Our world cycles, and this is just a part of it.