Re: Made in America?

I don't think most Americans really care where clothing is made, or if it has a made in the USA label. Even Levi's jeans recently closed all their US factories without a bit of protest, and they are now selling more jeans than ever.

And the fact is that most Americans don't want jobs in the needletrades, which means illegal immigrants would have to fill those positions anyway, leading to more controversy over immigration.

So who cares if clothing is imported, or what label is inside? I'm not going to lose sleep over it.

Tony

"Jeff Wisnia" <jwisnia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:13fqs7pfjdmikc8@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Maxwell Lol wrote:

I was talking to a friend who runs an unfinished furniture store,
featuring "Made in US" products. He told me that a friend of his,
who was formerly a mayor of a small upstate NY town, and a commercial
pilot, retired because the company has age requirements, and he was
too old.

So he started flying jumbo cargo planes from NY over the pole to
China, making good money.

Well, his routine was

* Fly to China
* Wait until they loaded up the plane with containers of cloth.
* Fly to NY
* Wait for a guy who cut the cloth into patterns.
* Wait for the plane to be filled with the the cut cloth and scraps.
* Fly the plane to China

At this point, the cut cloth was assembled into clothing, and shipped
back into the US. I asked why they flew the cloth to the US just for
the cutting. I was told "So they can put the 'Made in US' label on
them."


Anyhow, his pilot friend was getting physically ill thinking
about the ethics of this. He quit, and is now recovering.



How bout dis?

http://glo.bmwe.org/public/journal/1999/09sep/b04.htm

According to the last paragraph in this Snopes feature, it's probably still going on.

http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/usa.asp

Jeff

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