"Uncle!"

It is unrealistic to expect U.S. entrepreneurs to forgo the greater profits they can realize by producing their goods abroad at lower cost, just as it is unreasonable to expect U.S. consumers to "Buy American!" when they can purchase an imported product of equal or greater quality at a lower price.

I remember the shoddy manufacture of made-in-America automobiles before the Japanese made substantive inroads into Detroit's market share and roused the Big 3 from their incestuous communal slumber.

Okay, I capitulate. I'm persuaded by the passion, if not the rationale, to "Buy American!"--so should I purchase the Japanese model that's assembled by American workers at a plant in Tennessee, or the American brand that's assembled by Mexican laborers at a factory in Tijuana?