$8 apple? Maybe I should by a couple of truck loads today. Where do you get you data for $8 apples? BTW the stock market (DOW) is down to 24000 neighborhood from 26000 neighborhood.One way or another you are going to wind up paying 8 dollars for an apple. Either in the form of tax payer funded subsidies or in the form of higher prices on imported apples, which will be the only apples available.
Doesn't sound like that's strengthening the industrial backbone of America to me. At all.