Re: your March 29 editorial, "Come on, let’s hit the stores":
This headline wasn't specific enough. It should have said, "Let’s hit the stores that sell American-made products."
As Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said on TV, the stimulus package will only be effective if we buy American-made products. Huh? What? That shows how much shopping he does. Where are the stores that sell American-made products? Answer: There are none. Wal-Mart, Best Buy, Kohl’s — all sell foreign-made products.
A Los Angeles channel did a survey of people on the street and looked at the tags on the clothes that people were wearing. None of the people surveyed had on a piece of clothing made in America. Go into Best Buy and try to find an electronic product that was made in America.
Conclusion? Hitting the stores will just send our dollars to another country. Those people who don’t hit the stores will just use their rebate to pay off existing debt and household bills. End result? The stimulus package will not stimulate the American economy.
We have dreamers running the government who are out of touch with reality.
— William Wolny, Oxnard
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