Anyone who manufactures anything in the United States, and all the innovators and inventors know that if they come up with a new product and start producing it, even if they have a patent, it will be copied by someone in China, it will be mass produced, and it will be sold all over the world for much cheaper than they can afford to produce it for. At some point this disincentive for innovators and inventors will cause fewer innovations and inventions to come forth in the United States.

For those who think that America will do all the designing, creating, and innovations, and China will be the factory floor to produce at all, they seriously haven’t thought out the situation as it is currently playing out. Back in 2002, I went to the SEMA and APEX tradeshows for the automotive industry. At the APEX Show that year, there were at least four football fields full of booths, 10 X 10, with nothing but Chinese and Asian knockoff parts, copies, and patent infringements.

Indeed, I was blown away when I asked one of the individuals who sold fake Ford car parts, and also had what looked like Coleman lanterns, the same green color, also for sale in his booth, looking for US distributors to market and wholesale them too – I said to the gentleman in the booth; hey, that’s a Coleman lantern, and those are Ford car parts, and he told me they weren’t. I said; yes, they are. And he swore to me that they were not, he then told me that; I know for a fact those are ‘NOT’ Ford or Coleman’s, because my brother has contracts with both of those companies, and those factories are next door to mine.

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