There has been a segment running on the radio late at night where one house is selected in a typical American neighborhood and a team goes through the house looking for products with the 'made in America' label. Sadly the team usually only finds one or two items and remove the rest. They then try and local replacement items for the ones that were removed.
On one particular episode one of the items they were try to find was a coffee maker and it took two hours to locate one that had the 'made in America' label. By the end of that episode they did find replacements for everything except a few electronic items.
At the end of each episode they close by telling us how many jobs we would create here if we all just looked at what we had in our house and just replace one item. It would make such a difference if we would actually follow this example.
It is hard to imagine it but at one time just about everything we bought was made here in America. Now, it is hard to find a coffee maker and we don't have anyone that makes televisions.
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