Cornered by Mike Baldwin for November 03, 2009

This just may be entirely TOO prophetic.

It’s too late, corporate greed already sold out our industrial soul for their profits. Blame the MBA’s.

The simplest solution to the ‘China’ syndrome is to NOT by any item that is Made in China !!!!!!! It is not easy to find items made in America, but if you try and look in the right stores, they are there!

My motto is “Buy American every chance you get” !! I am very tired of supporting the Chinese and especially when the stuff from that country is poor quality, has poisoned our pets, and children with lead, even construction materials are poisoning homes so that people have to move out and the houses have to be rebuilt ! Most everything they manufacture is inferior to American made. In the 80’s and 90’s all the clothing that i bought was made in U.S.A. Try and find something now that is made in our own country! We need to get back to manufacturing here or we are doomed. How can this country recover when all the jobs are in Asia ?

I used to run my own metal stamping business until NAFTA & the “most favored nation” c#ap showed up.

I now spend a good portion of my day reading & commenting on comics sites.

‘Nuff said.

Corporate greed? How about consumer greed? They’re the ones who don’t care where something is made if they can get it a few cents cheaper.

The corporations are just responding to the market. If people stopped buying stuff made in China, the corporations would stop making it there.

Great site: http://www.stillmadeinusa.com

grr, double post and it won’t let me delete. Sorry about that

and eat with chopsticks

i bought an american car, but it turns out that it was only assembled in america, everything in it was foreign made

We brought it on ourselves with our demands for higher and higher wages, to pay for the increasingly higher priced goods, ad infinitum. We did it in Canada first, and have completely lost our manufacturing base. Now the government is the biggest “employer” between the city, region, provincial and federal levels, but as we all know government doesn’t make anything (execpt more taxes). This is a really poignant cartoon. Too real to be funny. But agree totally with the sentiment.

Mike, thanks for the accuracy!

Years ago, as a manager for the old Bell System, I was given a mountainous territory and needed a new company car. Since we were a public utility, it had to be made in the U.S., so I was given a brand-new 4WD Dodge Ram. After receiving it, I raised the hood to check the engine, and saw a large paper sheet glued to the underneath - on it was printed “Parts made in Canada, Assembled in Mexico”. Always made me laugh, my “100% made in U.S.” vehicle.