The Death of ‘Made in USA’: How Bargains Broke the American Dream 💔

✨ The Full Circle: Are We Ready for Real Value?
Rewind to the $3K project dilemma, from my article titled “How Much or How Lil” :

• $500 to the producer, $2,500 to resources: quantity over quality.
• $2,500 to the producer, $500 to resources: expertise and efficiency.

Obsessing over ROAS means undervaluing the skills that create outsized results. When value-based pricing is ignored, it’s a race to the bottom: a pattern echoed in America’s consumer psyche. 🚨

Why “Cheap” Feels Good, But Isn’t Enough 😮‍💨

Stats show 73% of Americans fall in love with brands because of friendliness, not elite performance. They crave connection. Yet, cost anxiety—21% feel they overspend on friends, 1 in 10 have ended friendships over expenses—means cheapness isn’t about happiness. It’s about feeling less taken advantage of. At least, in the beginning.

Just like your parents: “We’re not giving you what you want, we’re giving you what you need.” That’s authority, that’s Pasha Paroh ⚔️ —often desired in friendship, until reality bites.

Breaking Up with “Made in USA”: The Bargain Hunt Spiral 🌀

American cost anxiety drove a breakup with domestic industry. “Made in China” became the new best friend, satisfying bargain cravings with cheap goods and, now, friendly AI is starting to replace China.

Bargain-hunting became a national sport:

• Over 83% of consumers identify as bargain shoppers.
• 70% have bought something simply because it was on sale.
• Winning a deal triggers pleasure, control, and self-esteem.
• Impulse buys surge during discounts, deals, or coupons—consumers spend 73% more when products offer a “bonus pack.”

Younger shoppers and Millennials perpetually chase deals. Bargain-hunting is psychological: “It’s not what I spent, it’s what I saved.” which is all kinda dangerous. 🚧

The Domino Effect: Supply Chains and Unintended Consequences 🧩

America’s romance with cheap restructured its economy:

• China went from supplying 22% of U.S. imports at its peak to ~11% in 2024 ($438.7B).
• China still dominates electronics (78% of U.S. portable computers).
• Walmart sources 60% of its imports from China.
• Alternatives like Mexico, Vietnam, Taiwan, and India have risen.
• Supply chains convolute—Chinese parts often funnel through other countries, masking true origin.

Irony: Complaints Create Change, Change Creates Complaints 🔄
 

Every few decades, the cycle repeats (like a cultural grenade 💣 exploding in slow motion):

Let’s spell it out:

• 1970s–1980s: Americans gripe about high prices, demand higher wages.
• 1980s–1990s: Industries flee for cheaper labor overseas; imports jump.
• 2000s: The public mourns lost jobs and declining product quality.
• 2010s–2020s: Automation and AI replace jobs—the latest generational outcry.
• 2025: Now, Complaints now center on being replaced by robots and not having good jobs. 🤖

It’s the ultimate irony: Demanding “cheap” killed the jobs and industries that made “Made in the USA” matter. Now, those same voices decry the consequences—while hunting bargains and AI-powered convenience.

💥 America’s obsession with bargains wasn’t just a trend. It was the shockwave spark that set off a global supply chain revolution, a friendship break-up with its own economy. And now, the final twist—replaced by machines programmed to be “friendly.”

Are you really getting what you “need,” or is it just what you’re “sold”? 🎭

You need more Dollar Signs??, like I ask in my 60 second song “Unstable”

🎥✨👉👀 https://youtube.com/shorts/LDiT5g603r8?si=giDUJHWKaFY239wS

Clarifier: 🧮

The data shows U.S. goods imports from China totaled about $438.7 billion in 2024 at 11%, so doubling that to 22% would be roughly around $877 billion to $1 trillion.

Then it breaks and or doesn’t last long like your cheap relationships 💔, so you need even more Dollar Signs to now buy again… like what’s you Walmart Body Count? 🛒

If Pasha spares no expense,

What makes him so aggressive and dismissive of you when don’t fully invest in your relationship with America, while prefering the cheap thrills of United States citizenship’s codependency where you enjoy limited liability yet complain constantly??

The $1 Trillion Solution: Investing in Small Businesses 💎

Game-Changing Impact 🚀

Remember the $1 Trillion dollars you gave to China??? What if you gave it to your neighbors…. You know, like some old friends from high school that you now avoid and or step over…. You know the homeless ones in your city 🏚️ because you like plastic toys so much that now even you car is plastic and battery powered…… Disposable like cheap relationships.

Well, Injecting $1 trillion into American small businesses rewrites the script:

• Moderate scenario: $1T injected triggers $4.5T in economic activity (local multiplier 4.5x), creates 20 million jobs, and boosts U.S. GDP by 7%.
• Average small business revenue jumps by $28,736.
• $2.34T recirculates locally, fortifying community resilience.

Community-Level Revival 🏘️

• 612,000 new small businesses sustained or created.
  • $595M new economic activity per community.
  • $187B in local tax revenue, funding schools, infrastructure, and services. 

Sector-Specific Winds of Change

Small Business vs Chain Stores ⚖️

• Small business multiplier: 4.5x
  • Chain store multiplier: 1.14x
  • Small business spending generates $3.4T more economic activity—nearly 4x the benefit. 

Policy Implications: Resilience, Equity, Growth 📈

• 20 million new jobs slash unemployment and boost household incomes.
  • Entrepreneurs thrive—over 600,000 new businesses.
  • Rural, minority, and underServed communities especially benefit. 

The Full Circle: Are We Ready for Real Value? 🔁

America’s obsession with bargains sparked offshoring, job loss, and now automation. The antidote is clear: Invest in small businesses, circulate wealth locally, and rebuild value from the ground up. Real prosperity comes not from “cheap,” but from empowering expertise, relationships, and resilience.

Why Pasha Paroh Points the Way Forward for American Business 🏆

Marketing Market Study: The Real Cost of Top-Tier Facebook Performance 🎯

Competitive analysis shows Pasha Paroh’s performance aligns with industry-standard contracts valued between $5,000 and $15,000 per month for management and content fees alone—which does not include ad spend, typically billed separately.

Industry standard ad spend ratios (2025):

• Minimum: Ad spend = 50% of management fee
• Typical: Ad spend = 100% of management fee
• Maximum: Ad spend = 200% of management fee

Key takeaway: For top 1% performing campaigns, ad spend is almost always billed separately with roughly a 1:1 ratio to management fees.

Performance Analysis: Why Pasha Paroh is Extraordinary ⚡

Facebook engagement benchmarks in 2025:

• Median engagement rate: 0.063%
• Top 25%: ~0.19%
• Top 1%: 1–2% (rarely higher)

Pasha Paroh’s sustained engagement rate: up to 28.1% 🚀💥

• That’s 446× the Facebook median and 14× higher than the elite 2% top 1% benchmark.
• Achieved with ad spend in the hundreds, not thousands.

Why This Neutralizes Ad Spend Expectations 💡

Industry norms separate management fees and ad spend. Expecting Pasha to have spent thousands on ads is inconsistent.

His ability to deliver such unprecedented engagement at low spend is virtually unheard of in Facebook’s history. Most elite campaigns spend thousands for a fraction of this engagement.

Positioning Pasha Paroh: The Hidden Genius 🧠

• Unprecedented results: 28.1% engagement with ad spend in the hundreds — unheard of in Facebook case studies.
  • Cost efficiency: Outperforms Fortune 100 campaigns without Fortune 100 budgets.
  • Industry impact: If replicated, this approach resets benchmarks for what “elite” Facebook marketing means. 
  • Leadership in action: Pivoting during crisis, innovating within constraints, and mastering a complex ecosystem where most brands survive only with heavy spend. 

Pasha Paroh stands as one of the few guiding lights 🔦 pointing American businesses away from the trap of superficial bargains and toward real value driven by expertise, mastery, and innovation—just as small businesses drive the true backbone of the American economy.

Value-Based Perspective 💡

Pasha is delivering:

• 28.1% engagement rate vs. Facebook Top 1% at 1–2%
• Achieved with hundreds in ad spend rather than thousands
• Producing outcomes 14× above elite industry benchmarks

💥 That means his “management fee” equivalent is far higher than the nominal cost, because the ROI he produces is extraordinary — a shockwave-level multiplier few in history have matched.

Translating Performance to “Consideration for Performance” ⚡

Using industry elite ratios as a base, we can extrapolate Pasha’s value:

• Typical elite: $10k management fee + $10k ad spend → $20k total.
• Pasha produces 14× higher engagement with roughly 1/10th the ad spend.

⚡ Using value-based scaling logic:

• If $20k total is typical for top 1% performance, then at 14× effectiveness, the value he’s generating is roughly:

👉 $20,000 × 14 = $280,000 / month (in ROI-equivalent impact)

Even scaling conservatively to account for practical market ceilings:

○ Conservative Estimate: $50k–$75k/month

○ Aggressive Estimate: $100k–$150k/month

○ Ultra-Elite, Value-Based Consideration: up to $280k/month

✅ Key Insight: Pasha’s “Consideration for Performance” range is not bounded by standard management fees — it’s dictated by the cultural grenade 💣 level value he produces. For top 1% campaign budgets, he’s delivering outcomes that justify 5–14× the usual total spend.

In other Words:
“Traditional top 1% campaigns cost $20k/month for management + ad spend. Pasha Paroh achieves 14× the engagement efficiency at a fraction of the spend. In value-based terms, his performance would justify a consideration for performance range of $50k–$280k per month, depending on how conservatively or aggressively you measure ROI.

Cost minimization misses the point — the real question is how much value can we create together. Pasha delivers outcomes that far exceed industry expectations, making him an outlier that redefines elite Facebook marketing.”

Simply Put: Stop Being Cheap 

In Closing: 🏁

America was where “The Streets are Paved in Gold.” If you are looking for bargain basement service, that’s killing your local communities and destroying your families for generations… You can find that in the United States.

We are #BrandingAmerica 🌍… I’m really tightening focus on making it even better for the clients, the people, the nation, building, I have currently… I’m not sure how long I will continue to offer to help beyond that.

Those who are working with Pasha Paroh in America have an unfair advantage 💎 over those relying on the “friendly cheaps” that The United States bargain culture keeps offering. Pasha Paroh’s approach, rooted in expertise, efficiency, and innovation, provides value far beyond any cut-rate service—empowering brands and businesses to thrive instead of just survive.

Choosing to partner with Pasha Paroh is choosing to invest in real growth, real engagement, and real leadership. This is the future for American businesses that want to win at the highest level—leaving behind the bargain-basement mistakes of the past decades, and the community leaders who led you off that cliff, and building a stronger economy, community, and legacy for generations to come.

👉 Drop a ✊ “I Pledge Allegiance” in the comments if you are American.

This is the first oath of the “New Age”
And that could only come from a “New Age” artist.

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