How else do you explain this decision to buy cheap Chinese and Korean condoms instead of continuing to purchase those made right here in the USA?

At a time when the federal government is spending billions of stimulus dollars to stem the tide of U.S. layoffs, should that same government put even more Americans out of work by buying cheaper foreign products?
In this case, Chinese condoms.

That's the dilemma for the folks at the U.S. Agency for International Development, which has distributed an estimated 10 billion U.S.-made AIDS-preventing condoms in poor countries around the world.
But not anymore.

In a move expected to cost 300 American jobs, the government is switching to cheaper off-shore condoms, including some made in China.

This does, of course, beg the question of whether the US government ought to be in the condom business at all. But if we are, doesn’t it seem reasonable for us to “buy American”?

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