Made in America

When was the time you bought an item that was "made in America"?  Yesterday? Last week?  A month ago? A year?  More?

I remember almost everything I purchased was "made in America", good quality, reasonably priced goods from textiles to tools.  Jeans "made in America" were a prize for the European crowds.

If you want to know why we are in the financial crisis we are in, do not be short sighted and look only into the near past but take it back to when the textile industry moved offshore so you could purchase cheaper shirts, ties, skirts, blouses, dresses, pants,etc.  Levi Jeans were the last to leave the USA as  a manufacturing home.  Then the small appliances were taken out, you know, irons toasters, waffle iron, microwaves, coffee makers and such.  Next the larger appliances, TVs, radios, refrigerators, stoves, etc.  Now the automobiles and trucks. 

Our trade deficit is creeping higher and higher each day, as we have no goods to sell outside our borders and we are importing almost everything we use, including defense. 

"Thousands of U.S. layoffs occur every week. You only have to look at AmericanEconomicAlert.org's news section to see the number of US jobs that are being cut across a wide range of industries. A high percentage of these layoffs are as a direct result of competition from foreign companies. Eventually, as more and more money leaves the U.S., our businesses will be powerless to prevent further such activity."     http://www.americaneconomicalert.org/ticker_home.asp

We, the citizens of the United States cannot continue to maintain a Representative Republic if we no longer have a manufacturing base.  We cannot maintain a Representative Republic without a  middle class.  We are not nor have ever been a democracy.  Republic is what we are and will remain so, I hope. 




So here I am "STUCK IN THE MIDDLE WITH YOU".