Made in the U.S.A

Seriously.....

I had a problem with Amazon.com  -  the 8 (Yes, that's right, eight!) Amazon agents that I spoke or chatted with initially were all from the Philippines !  I did not get resolution until I demanded that I speak with some one from the U.S. 
Two days later I had to order some ink from Dell.  I ordered over the phone - guess what -  the agent selling the ink was from - the Philippines as well.

I teach an an economics class in my high school, yesterday I had the 30 students look at each others shirt or sweater labels  - result - all but 2 were made in another country - ranging from Vietnam to Pakistan, Mexico and others. TWO were made in USA>     

DINO is Spot on !!  And TF is as well, we have done it to ourselves - with the addendum of thank you politicians !!

Back in 1987 I was working as an I/C test engineer during construction/testing of the Beaver Valley II nuke plant in PA.  There were several IBEW electricians working in support of our group.  One day one of them strolled into the office proudly wearing a green ball cap with a  "Made by, Paid by, Worn by an American" logo on the front. I liked the hat and asked if I could see it.  When I looked at the label inside, it was made in China!!!  Needless to say, that hat hit the trashcan immediately.

DE

Dirty Ed,

That is a hysterical story!!! Thanks for sharing.

Russell
You are spot on -   bunch of money grabbers.

We have a safety boot company here in Canada (Terra) who were originally based out of Newfoundland. They used to make the whole boot here, but moved the uppers component offshore a number of years ago. A big part of the problem was that all of the animal rights people were on their case, for all of the cows being killed for boot leather! As long as the cows killed are from Asia they don't seem to mind, so that's how production eventually ended up over there.

So the boot arrives in Canada, complete except for the sole. It is then put into a direct injection machine (called a DESMA) and the soles are moulded on robotically. When the consumer looks at the finished boot, the sole is embossed with "Made in Canada", but that isn't seen anywhere else on or within the boot. The consumer gets the impression that the whole boot is made in Canada, but only the sole is ... by a robot.

A funny world we've made for ourselves.

Just out of curiosity I inventoried all of my electronics to see there point of origin with the exception of my tuner a Sabine (U.S.) and my Gibson(U.S.) everything else was made in China or Taiwan (which is part of China now) my toaster was made in Mexico LOL but all the little gadgets like the pencil sharpener,nail cutters, stapler, scissors wardrobe ALL made in China this sucks and it is high time to bring it back home whichever country you live in hence my reason for this topic.

Yep we did, As an older member of planet Earth born in 1941 (6 weeks before WWII) I can speak from experience I hate to say it but the demands for higher wages raised the cost of goods and services exponentially as wages got higher so did everything else and people were looking for any way to save money this is where the entry into the WTO(world trade organization) by China began under president Carter and everything went downhill China shipped tons of goods and put a high import tax on our goods in addition stole the intellectual property (ways and means to make there own copies) out an out piracy prevailed and there labor cost consists of pennys and hour or children and imprisoned people forced to work for nothing for food with no medical benefits truly a sad violation of human rights but nothing we can do about it for now as it will take a grass roots movement to change the way we manufacture and purchase so brace yourselves for a lower standard of living till we can recover. This will have to be coupled with a change in our political system new laws on price fixing, lobbying dissolving the Federal Reserve and replacing it with a government agency lots of changes needed to fix this mess.