Read the label on my "HANES" boxers: THAILAND.

[Tyler Durden]

So I did an inventory:

Van Huesen pullover: Cambodia.

Sweatshirt: China

Wrangler black jeans: Mexico

Wrangler steel toed shoes: China

Socks: unknown, no label

Glasses frames: South Korea

Seiko Watch: Japan

Pen in my pocket: Spain

Car I got to work in: Japan (Mazda/Ford Aspire)

Wedding ring: Artisan in Stratford, Ontario, Canada



If you took away everything not made here, I'd be as naked as the day I was born.

[BiggJawn]

1. My Palm

Hecho en Mexico.

My Accu-Check Glucometer, Germany.

My TI calculators? China.
My "band-aids" are made in Brazil.
my soap is made in the USA, Mexico and India (I use several brands).
Hardly any small stuff is made here.

[Warpy]

2. Dang, at least I'd still be wearing my rings

which are all antiques I inherited and made here. Of course, the few diamonds I got were mined elsewhere, so they'd just be the gold settings, but at least I wouldn't be nekkid as a jaybird.

Come to think of it, I'd be doing pretty well. A lot of my clothing is homemade, and I could get used to not wearing undies. Much of my fabric stash is unfashionable, dating back to when this country made its own cloth. I have a trunk full of sweaters I knit and I know they're domestic: I buy my wool right off the critter and spin it myself.

However, I do know what you mean, and the problem is that all this artifically underpriced stuff made by people in the third world is what the government uses to tell us there is no inflation so they can hold our wages down. Look at the costs of housing and healthcare to find out what the real inflation rate is! Meanwhile, we're all stuck out there in underemployment land (if we still have jobs), selling the stuff we used to make for half the wage we used to make while watching that credit card debt pile up.

What are all these rich people gonna do when there are no more customers left because none of us can get any more credit?

[samplegirl]

3. Give us more

Check in Cash places.

[ikojo]

4. My beloved scooter made in

Italy

What concerns me is that if the US had to mobilize the manufacturing base as happened during WWII, it would be very difficult because it barely exists. Talk about making the country vulnerable. Even much coding and programming is done outside the US.