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Is there anything made in America any more? Olympic uniforms made in China. The America flag made in
China. Here at CD we read mounds of posts of people opposing communism and yet they flock to Wmart buying 100% Chinese communist goods. They buy millions of iPhones made in communist China. Now we salute our flag made in China and our olympians dressed in uniforms made by the Chinese.
Apparently they even screwed up the clothing orders, and we ended up with hats intended for the French and school uniforms for Chinese children.... how embarrassing.
IS there anything that says U.S. athletes can't wear their OWN lucky track gear, instead of the phony designer crap made in china??
I'm pretty bullheaded, and if i was fast enough to be on the U.S. olympic team then I'd wear my best boxers and nikes so fashion could be damned!!
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Teams wear uniforms. Have you ever watched the opening/closing ceremonies and observed what the teams wear? This is not something which is undertaken lightly or at the last minute.
Frankly stated, Sen. Harry Reid is an idiot. It is his party who largely has put into place the union labor laws and the international trade treaties that have brought US corporations to send manufactuing jobs overseas. The US Olympic Team uniforms are a symptom of the larger problem.
Our teams are privately funded, not funded by the state. The origin of manufactuing apparently was not a problem for USOC. The lawmakers have no say, period. If they are angry they need to look in the mirror and stop demonizing corporations but do something to make doing business in the USA attractive again. Or, they need to go to the fabric store, get some Simplicity patterns, and start sewing themselves. It would certainly be more productive than destroying our country they way they have been.
Is it that bad, that we as a nation cannot even produce our own clothing, for our Olympic athletes?
Buy them some Tony Lamas, Wranglers and a Resistol hat and throw some custom rodeo chaps on them, all made in the USA.
It's not a matter of being able to produce the clothing here in the United States. The heart of the matter is that clothes can be manufactured in other countries at lower cost. Consumers benefit from lower prices and corporations benefit from higher profits.
You can scream and yell about how "Un-American" it is but that doesn't change the economic realities of the world we live in.
IS there anything that says U.S. athletes can't wear their OWN lucky track gear, instead of the phony designer crap made in china??
When you are bought and paid for by corporate sponsors who pay your housing, plane rides and other costs to get you to your dreams, you wear what they tell you.
This is America now, the people who brought this on by outsourcing jobs are in shock, SHOCK! that their own friggin policies led to this outrage. SHOCK!
Right up there with relying on China to make our flag.
Why does this fallacy keep getting repeated. There are several companies in the USA which make US Flags here and always have. Stop shopping at big box stores which stick the cheapest stuff and I suspect you'll find them.
It's not a matter of being able to produce the clothing here in the United States. The heart of the matter is that clothes can be manufactured in other countries at lower cost. Consumers benefit from lower prices and corporations benefit from higher profits.
You can scream and yell about how "Un-American" it is but that doesn't change the economic realities of the world we live in.
The economic realities are that big government has made it unprofitable and very difficult to manufacture in the USA compared to other countries with fewer regulations.
Ralph Lauren who had his GIANT logo embroidered on OUR Olympic uniforms, gets his clothes(his wealth) from sweatshops....great advertising for the US....
the person who is responsible for these should be deported as a traitor....
But, that's Capitalism and the American Way.....
Does Lauren get a point for living in Telluride
Oh, the FAKE "political" outrage over Olympic made Uniforms ....
Where's the outrage over this???
"While the 10th anniversary has made international headlines, little attention has been paid to some controversial aspects of the rebuilding at Ground Zero.
At a time when President Obama is launching a massive jobs initiative, key parts of the construction project were outsourced overseas.
A Chinese glass company won the contract to manufacture the special blast-resistant glass base of 1 World Trade Center.
Some 250 tons of stainless steel from Germany will also be imported for the project."
The only thing still produced regularly in America is bull****
Teams wear uniforms. Have you ever watched the opening/closing ceremonies and observed what the teams wear? This is not something which is undertaken lightly or at the last minute.
Frankly stated, Sen. Harry Reid is an idiot. It is his party who largely has put into place the union labor laws and the international trade treaties that have brought US corporations to send manufactuing jobs overseas. The US Olympic Team uniforms are a symptom of the larger problem.
Our teams are privately funded, not funded by the state. The origin of manufactuing apparently was not a problem for USOC. The lawmakers have no say, period. If they are angry they need to look in the mirror and stop demonizing corporations but do something to make doing business in the USA attractive again. Or, they need to go to the fabric store, get some Simplicity patterns, and start sewing themselves. It would certainly be more productive than destroying our country they way they have been.
You are exactly right, and frankly, I will happily buy foreign made clothes rather than buy union made clothes. Unions are the bane of society.
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to be on the U.S. olympic team then I'd wear my best boxers and nikes so fashion could be damned!!
