The USA/China Syndrome
I went by Hobby Lobby today just to look around. They have three aisles right up front, filled with patriotic items for the summer and Fourth of July holidays. You can get pretty much anything you want there to decorate your home in red, white, in blue.
All of them bearing the tag "Made in China."
Yep. Every single thing I picked up on the aisle was marked "Made In China." Flags, banners, busts of Uncle Sam holding balloons, "Proud To Be An American" bottle openers, everything.
Good Lord, if the irony is going to be this obvious, I'll have nothing to blog about anymore.
Upon further review, roughly half of the store was "Made In China," including decorative crosses, big woodcrafts that said "Freedom", and University of Texas memorabilia. I'm pretty sure the Chinese government doesn't believe in any of those things.
When I talk about capitalism run amuck, this is what I'm talking about. Give it a shot, see how much of the patriotic stuff you'll see between now and July Fourth is actually made in America.
1 Comments:
To be totally fair, U of Texas could have their work outsourced to a much closer country. I'm sorry to hear about people being so brazen with their stupidity that there's not room left for clever commentary... looks like after all that hype, the apocalypse is finally upon us.
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