How utterly @#$%ed up is it that two-thirds

[JDPriestly]

153. As a woman who sews, I would love to see the return of American jobs in the textile

and clothing industries in the US. I really miss the wonderful fabrics we used to be able to buy, the American made fabrics.

I have told this story many times on DU. I bought a used washing machine in 1985. I still have it. Works beautifully.

Of course it works beautifully. It was made by Americans in America, in Newton, Iowa to be exact. I assure you a product of that quality and with that sturdy design is not sold today. The products we get from other countries do not last as a rule. They are poorly made of cheap materials. Young people don't realize just how bad the things they buy really are. Reminds me of what I used to see in shops in Eastern Europe under the Communists when I used to visit there.

If we don't allow foreign imports to inundate our markets with poor quality, cheap goods, we will establish our own good factories to make quality products. American workmanship was excellent before we allowed other countries to import their junk. Sorry. But I have watched the deterioration in the quality of products sold in the US over my lifetime, and that deterioration is directly linked to the increase in imported goods.