In spite of all the left wing media reports of how hostile China, Vietnam and all the other enlightened countries that embrace socialism and communism are toward the Evuuul Capitalist West the fact of the matter is if China and their allies attack Thaiwan or the USA or any of it's allies, they'd better have a big fucking war chest because once the USA stops buying their products their economies such as they are will collapse in a matter of weeks.
We are beating them now the same way we beat the USSR in the Cold War.
Not so long ago I was at Just for Feet looking for some new shoes as well. I, being the observant type noticed that all the shoes on display were made in China, Vietnam or some other Indonesian country. I asked the sales person if there were any sneakers, (I'm 43 and I still call them sneakers instead of running, crosstraining, walking, long distance shoes, this has caused a great amount of confusion amongst the sales staff on a number of occasions) made in the USA.
He (the salesman that is) brought out a pair of New Balance sneakers made in the USA. Talk about sticker shock $237 for a pair of sneakers. I don't think so.
So you say "had some new balance running shoes when i was in the army many moons ago and they were good shoes."
Do you recall where they were made?
So, what did you pay for your most recently purchased "Made in the USA" New Balance (crosstraining) sneakers?
Hey, "Look for the Union Label when you buy that that coat, dress or blouse."
Unions for a very short period of time in US history served a purpose but after they established a reasonable work day, a reasonable wage and reasonably safe work environment among other things, the Unions themselves went on to drive industries out of the USA with their ever increasing demands.
Finally, I don't usually pick nits about things like grammar and puncuation but your post is so filled with an apparent ignorance of both that I can't pass up the opportunity of offering a few pointers.
I'm not sure what part of Texas you are from but most of the Texan's, indeed most of the people I know adhere to some very basic rules in regards to writing things like sentences.
The first letter in a sentance is capitalized. If you insert a comma "," it is usually followed by a blank space. Periods "." at the end of a sentence are usually followed by two blank spaces. When you refer to the name of a country or a brand name the first letter is capitalized for example Nike as apposed to nike or Vietnam as apposed to vietnam.
When you start a sentenced in first person tense you start it with "I don't" not "dont" or "I went" instead of "went".