Wow, Looks like the entire AMA forum playhouse is here.

I don't think its fair to compare the prices of products produced in free countries and those products produced in oppressive countries .

People that buy cheap Chinese products know they are supporting oppressive regimes . And they know they are supporting something very similar to slave labor.

But to be completely honest about it, The same thing has happened in this hemisphere for 100 years. We have always stomped burgeoning democracies and backed dictators freindly to our corperations and their slave labor arrangments with those dictators. It wasn't model airplanes. It was generally fruit companies or other commodities . But product was cheap.

To buy cheap products that are produced in this manner is condoning the oppression of human beings. Thats no bargain. Thats not exporting freedom. Thats not what we want to stand for.

I choose to buy products produced by free people. It does cost more. But it is worth it.

I hope this explains the difference in price and the true cost.