Got this in a mail today

[TheCoxwain]

Just think about it - how long could it have lasted. The real thing ultimately depends on who is actually creating and adding value in economic and social spheres of activity. The obvious question to be answered then is, am I creating and adding value by what I am doing.
Best wishes and regards.


John Smith started the day early having set hisalarm clock
(MADE IN JAPAN ) for6 am.

While his coffeepot
(MADE IN CHINA)
was perking, he shaved with his
electric razor
(MADE IN HONG KONG)
He put on a
dress shirt
(MADE IN SRI LANKA),

designer jeans
(MADE IN SINGAPORE)
and
tennis shoes
(MADE IN KOREA)
After cooking his breakfast in his new
electric skillet
(MADE IN INDIA)
he sat down with his
calculator
(MADE IN MEXICO)
to see how much he could spend today. After setting his
watch
(MADE IN TAIWAN )
to the radio
(MADE IN JAPAN )
he got in his car
(MADE IN GERMANY )
filled it with GAS
(from Saudi Arabia )
and continued his search
for a good paying AMERICAN JOB.
At the end of yet another discouraging
and fruitless day
checking his
Computer
(made in MALAYSIA ),
John decided to relax for a while.
He put on his sandals
(MADE IN BRAZIL),
poured himself a glass of
wine
(MADE IN FRANCE)
and turned on his
TV
(MADE IN INDONESIA),
and then wondered why he can't
find a good paying job
in AMERICA

[Cant trust em]

1. The wine is probably the easiest product to find made in America.

[Oregone]

2. Gas would likely be from Canada

And his Unemployment Check would be made in the USA!

[YOY]

3. The notion of a "service based economy"

Is a joke.

[OhioChick]

4. It sure is. n/t

[mulsh]

5. Stetson has are still made in USA

Gibson, Fender, Martin and a host of other high end luthiers make their instruments in the USA. If you want to spend the money you can have a local tailor make your suits and pants and jackets. you can also find local shirt makers in major cities. costs more. the lowly squeegee is made right in my home town, Oakland,CA.

those are just a few of the things still made in the USA.

[TheCoxwain]

7. I would LOOOOVE to buy a US made Strat ..reality check - Cannot afford it with my US Paycheck.

I got myself a Canadian made Godin ... good quality at a decent price.

[Warpy]

6. This article ASSumes John Smith has a fucking choice

He doesn't and he's not to blame.

Corporate management that decided to fatten the bottom line and their own pay packages by allowing the developing world to loot US jobs are to blame.

Of course, if John's a Republican, he's too damned dumb to realize it.

[YOY]

8. Like a certain recent DLC President did anything to stop it.

Sorry Warpy, but he sure as hell didn't. He did the same for IT White Collar production as the Repugs did for the Blue Collar.

[Greyhound]

12. Stop it? He enacted all of it.

If not for him, Idiot Frat Boy wouldn't have had the means to destroy the economy and The Constitution.

[Warpy]

14. What are you sorry for? He was the best Republican president

this country ever had. He sure as hell wasn't a Democrat.

Now you know one of the many reasons I despise the DLC and the conservative, corporate horse they rode in on.

[YOY]

15. Yeah but you know as well as I that some people worship the ground he walked on here.

But telling them that he was politically everything a Republican should be is redundant. We can all thank Saint Ronnie for throwing the American political compass so far to the right that nationalism and religious fundamentalism (at least verbally for politicians) is the status quo for Republicans. In most nations it's reserved for the far right parties that generally side with other less volatile parties in parliamentary coalitions.

[Cant trust em]

13. I would love to buy more American made products

but I don't care to search high and wide to find them. Given the choice between American, union made products or those being made overseas, I'll always pick the American products. Unfortunately I'm rarely given that choice.

[margotb822]

9. He'd probably be better off wearing a suit

than the outfit he puts on in this "story."

Anyway, this assumes that America is a manufacturing economy, which it, by and large, is not any longer. In a service economy, John better have something more to contribute.

[tomreedtoon]

10. And then he got Religion and an American-made car...

which fell apart after two months, and wasn't fixed by the dealership, because the dealership went out of business.

The last person to say "we'll make 'made in America' mean something again" and mean it was the drug manufacturer in the movie Robocop 2. Face it. Americans are too stupid and too pretentious to get their hands dirty with manual labor any more; and that includes the executives who'd rather outsource jobs and collect their tax-free profits in offshore shelters.

[jmowreader]

11. I don't really buy the premise of this...

Except for the car, gas, and wine, all that shit comes from China today.