>>The trouble is, it's not that easy to find (many) products that are not made in China.
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>I just bought a set of USKids golf clubs and was mildly surprised when I saw the metal stamped with "Made in China" on each club. I'm not sure we make anything anymore.
I bought my diving fins some 15 years ago, an Italian make "Mares", with "Made in Italy" stamped on the "sole". My mate, who started only a few years ago, has a Mares pair, with "Made in Estonia" stamped on the bottom. At least the rest of my gear was made in England (except the mask).
Back in the late 80s I visited Harvard and went into the varsity clothes shop. Practically every item of quintissentially American garments was made in Taiwan. I almost yearn back to those days when many things were made in Taiwan, and not China. Why should they get to make everything?
- Whoever said that women are the weaker sex never tried to wrest the bedclothes off one in the middle of the night
- Worry is the interest you pay, in advance, for a loan that you may never need to take out.