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Is a Car Produced in Alabama Really an Import?

Let's simplify it. Your mother works hard, secures a business loan, establishes a florist, employs local people, and has a good business that gives back to the community. She got it without government incentives and learned the trade by the sweat of her brow and making mistakes. She has paid her dues.

Then a guy from aother country decides he wants to have a florist too. Your local community government gives him money and land to build one. He builds a state-of-the-art facility and he's up and running. However, he still lives in his home country.

Then the same government that paid him to set up shop comes into your florist and tells you that you must start growing certain flowers and each flower has to give off a set amount of oxygen. Then they leave you to pay for this change and figure it out, even though the market for those flowers is very small.

Meanwhile, the other guy's business is booming. His home country pays health care, so the advantages of his operations there help him do business here. He chose not to pay retirement benefits to his employees, but your mom had already set a retirement deal fo rher workers years ago.

Your mom's florist has a hard time competing and beings to cut corners. Finally, she needs some help and asks the governemnt for a loan, This is the same government that gave the other guy incentivs to set up the shop that is putting her out. Still, the government, the media, and the public drag her through the mud and call her a beggar.

Once she was praised for providing jobs, good wages, retirement, health care, and upping the standard of living for all who lived around her florist. Now she is ridiculed for those same things. She is told to "do it like the foreign guy", but when she asks for money like he got, she's slammed.

Mom is cutting corners at home. No cable, no-name brand foods, heat set at 65, backing off sporting programs for her kids...

Then one day, your sister comes home with a ficus tree that she bought from the other guys florist. You explain to her how buying from mom's florist will help your household. She tells you that her friend from school works at the other florist, so its the same thing.