“Made in China”
It’s getting harder every day to find a product for sale in America’s retail stores that doesn’t have those words stamped onto the carton. Many stores used to proudly display signs that read “Made in America”, but those signs are rarely seen these days. How sad.
In roughly two centuries (a mere whisk of time in world history) American engineering and American workers built the world’s most successful economy from scratch, but today that same economy is in a shambles. Gone are most of the high-paying manufacturing jobs, exported to places where human rights are largely ignored and the workers toil under conditions that most of us Americans would find appalling. Worse still, our capital is being systematically handed over to regimes that would love nothing more than to see us annihilated from the face of the earth.
Our corporations have sold out the very people who built them with their sweat, blood and loyalty, and our federal government created the environment that encouraged it under the guise of “free trade”. There is nothing “free” or fair about the playing field our liberal politicians have created for our companies to have to compete in.
Like it or not, we live in a world where we, the United States of America, are the only country that plays by the rules. And we will never again see the kind of prosperity we rightly enjoyed before NAFTA was allowed to rear its ugly head unless we wake up and start putting America and Americans first once again.
Do we really want our grandchildren to live in a world where they never read the words “Made in America”?
Rick,
I have a very funny story. My 4 year old son was playing outside at his day-care the other day. He and his friends were playing with rocks. My son picked one up and looked it over and exclaimed, “Just great! This one was made in China! Why is everything made in China?”
You have a bright kid there Doug. Hopefully someday he won’t have to answer that question from his own son.