How much will taxpayers shoulder?

[eppie]

It is a great disconnect that consumers in the U.S. just buy the cheapest stuff (even if it really is low quality) without regard to long term effects. Most people don't care because they're not directly in manufacturing and it's someone else's problem.
-V

Indeed, and that is the whole point isn't it. We can keep blaming China, but if we don't buy their stuff the people don't have to fabricate it in poor conditions.
And as the guy who buys up the stuff a junkie steals from people's houses is responsible and will go to prison when cought, the people who buy the stuff are to blame.
Our economies are (were) so good because we could get loads of useful cheap stuff from poor countries and nobody ever complained. Companies like wallmart thrive on these situations (yes owned by those god loving real americans that wont sell your album if it has a naked person on the cover).

I think I have to agree with Zenda here.
Of course I also understand that the US, just like any other country will try to do everything in its own interest, but the non-fair thing seems to pop up now because China is getting such a strong economy (10 years ago we didn't see working conditions in China as such a bad thing). In that sense the bully comparison works for me.