Shoe by Gary Brookins and Susie MacNelly for November 17, 2015

That is the sad truth of modern retail… a product can be discontinued if it doesn’t pull it’s own weight…

Well, they DO have plenty of other products that can malfunction.

DY-NA-MITE !!

Acme Dynamite – With the fuse you can reuse !

I thought they melted down all of the animated anvils in order to make the animated “Cars”.

I’m guessing FoMoCo is wishing the Edsel was just a car-toon…

Perhaps, but he does still buy a lot of other items from them.

But not its best seller, the infamous Acme Hand Buzzer… ;)

Going to have to start using pianos.

I heard they were discontinued due to a lack of cartoon anvil scenes.

Another ACME product that has proven to be ineffective on roadrunners…

We will see what develops from there!

I doubt anyone living today has any idea how significant Nixon’s visit to China in the early 70s would have on American manufacturing today! All we were looking for at the time was cheaper products for a hungry for bargains US consumer population! We never gave a thought to how this would impact high paying manufacturing jobs in the US!

Then, when Gerald Ford signed the first “Fair Trade Agreement” law into effect, thereby preventing manufacturers from setting prices based upon “their” cost of manufacture, and opening the market to competition from economies across the planet; i.e., China, India, Taiwan, etc., suddenly a shirt that should cost $10 was offered for $5, and we scooped them up by the barrel full!

All at the same time our fellow workers were losing their jobs producing shirts at the factory in the neighborhood town…

Tha, Tha, Tha, That’s all folks!