I try not to buy foriegn made stuff, when possilbe. But, most of the time, it's impossible to do so! My all-American Dodge Ram truck? Most, if not all of it was manufactured in Mexico and Canada. My Levis?? Made in Bangladesh or some damned place. The T-Shirt I'm wearing says Nike, but it's made in Taiwan. My shoes are New Balance, which I know were made in the US. I'm not even gonna guess where my socks and underwear where made! You can't buy a TV or a DVD player made in the US. You can't even buy groceries that were made here anymore! All of the fruits and vegetables are comming from Mexico or South America. That's why every summer we have another scare about some terrible disease emanating from imported produce. This year, Mexican tomatos are spreading salmonella. A couple of years ago, it was spinach spreading E. Coli. The year before that, it was green onions spreading whatever-the-hell it was spreading. I knew my parents where lying when they told me vegetables were good for me! Last year, it was contaminated wheat from China. Just why in the hell are we importing food from China, especially wheat??? Hellllooooo???? WTF?
As I type this on my Japanese-manufactured laptop, I just can't help but wonder just what in the hell we make here in America anymore. I know that even here where I work, we manufacture a product, but many of the parts we used come from other countries and not because of cost, it's because nobody in the USA makes the stuff we need anymore! We HAVE to buy crap from other places.
I think I'll just go home and commit suicide by eating a tube of contaminated, poisonous Chinese toothpaste.
