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There isn't anything fishy about buying local and keeping your dollars local. For example, if I purchase my lettuce at the farmers market from the farmer who purchases hay from his neighbor who buys feed at the local store who then comes to my store and buys a bicycle, well that is keeping the dollar local. The difference is that we are supporting each other and our businesses versus supporting globalism or a person in Florida that we don't know who is growing oranges. I think this is the fundamental benefit of supporting a local economy which really has nothing to do with jingoism.

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