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Made In China
During the eighties I’d read articles in the Wall Street Journal about jobs being sent to China. I was in management in the sales arena of electronic components, even then I knew that wasn’t good news for America. This trend continued through the nineties when off shoring became the battle cry of America’s industrial might being handed the communist country. Now that I lost my job to a Mexican in Renosa for a tenth of what I was making it has become perfectly clear that manufacturing is essentially gone.
I went out to buy a desk lamp for a table I planned to do some doodle art (the only pastime I can afford these days) when I was told every lamp in the store was made in China, regardless of whether the company was Canadian, American or European. I asked the sales person if there was a store in town that might have exception to this reality. I drove across town and found a German halogen for $377.95 which I passed on. Then after a couple of second hand stores I found a lamp made in Taiwan for $39.00 and bought it on the spot, claiming victory after spending all day looking.
After the lead paint found in much of the Chinese made products with the direct knowledge of American executives fiasco this Christmas, I had driven my personal stake in the ground – no more “Made in China” products. I wasn’t sure why corporate CEOs were knowingly trying to kill off our young, but I suspected it had to do with being traitors to our people by giving our enemies our jobs and now working with the enemy to kill our children. We’re still in the cold war only now the communists have powerful friends in Washington and board rooms all over our country.
I don’t care how many things I go without until I die. I still won’t kill my granddaughter off for corporate profits and the exploding wealth of the investor class in our country no matter what.
By Lloyd H. Frye
Op-Ed Columnist
The Hot Joints
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