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A better idea than buying Chinese-made goods, would be to give a government rebate (direct subsidy) to every property owner for installing thermo-pane windows, insulation, solar panels, and install American-made, energy-efficient appliances in or on building they own. This would help us go green, result in energy-cost savings over a few years, and not incite more wasteful spending that increased endebtedness on individuals.
Obama should begin with the White House, Capitol Building, and then all federal government buildings. This would create jobs, and create new American businesses, whose jobs won't be easily outsourced, and improve the manufacturing base of our economy. Obama could offer the same incentives to states and counties. This would alleviate a lot of the energy and environmental solutions we need. He could mandate that Detroit begin manufacturing "green," electric or hydrogen cell buses (mass transit), or light rail (train cars) to promote public transportation as well.
Spending money wisely in cost-savings, energy efficiency, and lessening pollution or global warming, is an investment in our future, whereas going to Walmart for a Chinese-made TV will get us back in the same hole we're trying to dig ourselves out of.
