A Short Meditation on America’s Loss of Manufacturing
August 15th, 2011Via: Dissident Voice:
By now most people are aware that the United States produces very little of its own furniture, carpeting, toys, textiles, shoes, electronics and appliances. Those once flourishing industries are a thing of the past. Indeed, hard as it may be to believe, a sizeable number of American flags are now made in China.
On a less urgent note, we’ve also lost our “novelty” manufacturing base. It’s true. Our plastic, artificial vomit and artificial dog poop are now being produced in Asia. While some people might greet this news with apathy, I see it differently. If we’ve already lost our fake vomit and dog poop to foreign manufacturers, how soon before we lose our truck nuts?
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