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I was at the local gun show this weekend moseying around looking at overpriced guns, ammo and stuff. I came across a guy selling flags, bumper stickers and other patriotic memorabilia. I've been looking at buying a Gadsden Flag for some time now and I figured I'd at least check the price. Ask the guy the price...$40 for the 3x5. Okay, now next trick question, where's it made?
"China."
"Thanks and have a nice day," I say and prepare to move on since I know darn well that flag didn't cost $40 out of a Chinese factory and sure as shooting either him or the distributor is making a killing on the profit.
"No, now wait a minute! If you're one of these folks that doesn't believe in buying things made in China, I've got a buddy over there who says the factory workers are darn glad to have a job and it puts food on the table and a roof over their heads. And it's decent quality too. You can't find an American made flag for that price."
"You had better believe I can on the net," I inform him and was getting the patriotic beast from within ready to be unleashed.
But before I was able follow up with some choice words describing his business principles, he was requested by another dealer and informed me if I had any other questions to stick around. I didn't stick around as you can imagine and left before I could tell him where to stick his attitudes about keeping a Chinese worker in a job. I don't think he would have appreciated or understood the scene I would have made and I probably would have been thrown out. But anyway, the one thought on my mind after he said that was:
"What about that American worker that made patriotic flags and was able to put food on the table and a roof over their families head until that factory closed and moved to China which put him out of a job?"
I know this is only a selected member of society, however, many Americans could care less about putting an American worker out of a job if it comes down to their wallet. We are selling our national soul to the cheaply made imported goods and the corporate bottom line. I'm sorry, but I firmly believe if any product out there on the market should be made in America, it must be American flags and produced by Americans. It's a pretty simple thing you know? It's just our national symbol that's now been sent overseas because someone wanted to make a buck or two more. I was astounded an American businessman would defend a Chinese worker making our National Symbol he happened to be selling (at close to the same prices I can get an American made flag).
And attempting to do it at a gun show that's typically filled with conservatives who are very patriotic? That's some major cajones he has there.
I mean, am I way off base here in thinking this guy was off his rocker and shocked he would act this way towards a potential sale? I can hardly find the words to describe my disgust with what he was doing. "Hey, it's okay to put an American worker out of a job because it gives a Chinese worker a job." That's pretty much what he was saying as I understand it.
Maybe I was just cranky that day (as the prices at the show sucked and I didn't find anything I liked or wanted) but I just couldn't believe the audacity of a businessman selling American flags made in China and defending Chinese workers! But no, it's been a couple of days now and I'm still pretty heated about it.
Just wanted to rant a little bit about idiots that think it's perfectly fine to put an American out of a job.
"China."
"Thanks and have a nice day," I say and prepare to move on since I know darn well that flag didn't cost $40 out of a Chinese factory and sure as shooting either him or the distributor is making a killing on the profit.
"No, now wait a minute! If you're one of these folks that doesn't believe in buying things made in China, I've got a buddy over there who says the factory workers are darn glad to have a job and it puts food on the table and a roof over their heads. And it's decent quality too. You can't find an American made flag for that price."
"You had better believe I can on the net," I inform him and was getting the patriotic beast from within ready to be unleashed.
But before I was able follow up with some choice words describing his business principles, he was requested by another dealer and informed me if I had any other questions to stick around. I didn't stick around as you can imagine and left before I could tell him where to stick his attitudes about keeping a Chinese worker in a job. I don't think he would have appreciated or understood the scene I would have made and I probably would have been thrown out. But anyway, the one thought on my mind after he said that was:
"What about that American worker that made patriotic flags and was able to put food on the table and a roof over their families head until that factory closed and moved to China which put him out of a job?"
I know this is only a selected member of society, however, many Americans could care less about putting an American worker out of a job if it comes down to their wallet. We are selling our national soul to the cheaply made imported goods and the corporate bottom line. I'm sorry, but I firmly believe if any product out there on the market should be made in America, it must be American flags and produced by Americans. It's a pretty simple thing you know? It's just our national symbol that's now been sent overseas because someone wanted to make a buck or two more. I was astounded an American businessman would defend a Chinese worker making our National Symbol he happened to be selling (at close to the same prices I can get an American made flag).
And attempting to do it at a gun show that's typically filled with conservatives who are very patriotic? That's some major cajones he has there.
I mean, am I way off base here in thinking this guy was off his rocker and shocked he would act this way towards a potential sale? I can hardly find the words to describe my disgust with what he was doing. "Hey, it's okay to put an American worker out of a job because it gives a Chinese worker a job." That's pretty much what he was saying as I understand it.
Maybe I was just cranky that day (as the prices at the show sucked and I didn't find anything I liked or wanted) but I just couldn't believe the audacity of a businessman selling American flags made in China and defending Chinese workers! But no, it's been a couple of days now and I'm still pretty heated about it.
Just wanted to rant a little bit about idiots that think it's perfectly fine to put an American out of a job.
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