Raise the Hammer

certainly, there's probably some actual slave labour in foreign plants, and many others who willingly come to work. Although, a good portion of those who willingly come are willing to be paid virtually nothing out of desperation. The coffee industry is a good example. It is the second highest traded commodity in the world after oil, yet many farmers live in shacks or roadside 'homeless shelters' in front of their farms. they have jobs and they willingly show up each day and provide the worlds coffee, but are exploited horrendously. Not to paint a completely sad picture...I'm sure there are other plants that provide jobs with an honest wage in foreign nations as well....but far too much of the former exists for my liking.

I buy organic,fair trade coffee (if you find a good supplier it tastes far superior than any other coffee you'll try). It's a small gesture, but nice to know that somewhere in the world a coffee grower is being paid a living wage due to this simple choice.
So to answer your question, absolutely I love doing what I can to help people in other nations. The US clearly needs the money to circulate through their own economy instead of being spent by consumers in one or two stores before flying overseas. Lord knows we do enough of that.
My kitchen table/chair set used to be my grandparents...all the furniture is solid wood and stamped 'Made in Canada' on the bottom.
It's like a novelty piece now when this conversation comes up when guests are over. I end up flipping over one of the chairs and saying "get ready to see something you haven't seen in ages". Lol. Hopefully one positive thing out of the current economic situation will be more local trade eventually....it'll be tough to ever end globalization, and I'm not sure that's a good answer anyhow. Re-tooling it and making it fair for all would be a great goal.