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22. Don't you remember? There was a reporter who

Reply to True Blue American (Reply #12)

Sat Jan 13, 2018, 01:51 PM

Jan 2018

did an investigation. All those Made in America signs were on racks of products that weren't Made in America. This was 20 years ago. He went to a factory in Indonesia with a camera in his hat, pretending to be a buyer. There were kids that lived and worked in the factory. The factory owner would take part of their pay for room and board. The owner said he would put whatever label the buyer wanted to indicate country of origin.

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