Have you noticed a drop in the quality of products you get these days? Remember a time when you could go to the store buy a product and bring it home, read all the instructions in English, and it worked? I do too.
Now a day all the products we buy are either made in Taiwan, China, or assembled in Mexico. What ever happened to good old American pride, and the Union Label? It moved east and south.
Now I am far from being a racist, but yesterday the cable guy showed up on time, expected to spend maybe an hour here in our new office rewiring the cable for phone and internet DSL. We also had Cable TV installed. He arrived at about 10 AM and by 6PM he was still here.
First the cable box went bad no sooner than he hooked it up, then our modem went bad, and finally to top it all off our phone service would not engage. I think there is something to be said here. Other countries can not manufacture and keep up with American technology when they still use and this is if they are lucky, rabbit ears on the backs of TV's that were obsolete here ten years ago.
NAFTA and GAT were good ideas, but not for the American workers. Upper level management used them to eliminate skilled labor jobs and ship them to other countries to save money. What did this get us? Sub quality products being shipped back into this country at the same or higher prices than we paid for the price of the Union Label.
I say give me an all American made product, or give me nothing at all. I am tired of buying substandard products that never seem to work. I have a computer made in Taiwan two years ago that is slowly beginning to fail on me, but I have a ten year old fax machine made in America that works as well as it did the day it was bought.
With twenty-five percent of Mexican workers migrating to America to work why then are we shipping entire factories to Mexico? It just dos not make sense to this reporter. I believe the economic downturn began with the automotive industry. When we started shipping jobs to other countries and displacing life long workers, we started a domino effect that has effected practically every aspect of the American Economy, and the forecast only looks worse for us American workers.
