Debbie Schlussel: Most Ironic Black Friday Bumper Sticker
I laughed when I walked through the Target parking lot on Black Friday and saw this bumper sticker on one of the cars:
Out of a Job Yet? Keep Buying Foreign
Um, just where does this person think 85%-plus of Target's products are made?
Here's a hint: You won't see the "Made in America" label much at Target.
But you will see "Made in China" and "Made in Taiwan" on a lot of those TVs an other electronics you bought in doorbuster deals.
And you will see "Made in Jordan," "Made in Syria," "Made in the United Arab Emirates," "Made in Indonesia," and "Made in Malaysia" on most of Target's clothes and workout gear. Guess what all of those countries have in common?
Here's another hint: They're all from the "Religion of Peace," and vast majorities in all of these countries--including the workers who made those clothes and whose salaries you finance by buying them--all openly support terrorist groups like HAMAS, Hezbollah, and even Al-Qaeda. They hate America, but aren't missing the opportunity to make a buck off the bargain-conscious U.S. consumer.
It's, frankly, too late to push for buying Made in America purchasing. We've shipped almost all of our manufacturing elsewhere. We've, sadly, become a consumer nation . . . to our detriment.
And if the bumper sticker I saw was meant to be about buying American cars, well those, too, as I've previously written, are not necessarily made in America. The parts on some American cars are made outside of the U.S., and some whole American cars are made elsewhere. Meanwhile foreign cars, like Toyota and Mitsubishi, are often made here in the U.S.
It's murky, and it's virtually impossible to "Buy American" anymore.
Here's my bumper sticker:
Out of a Job Yet? Keep Driving Around with Dumb, Meaningless Bumper Stickers to Black Friday Events
Actually a better one--now passe--would have been:
Out of a Job Yet? Keep Voting for Obama
Well, it can be used in 2012.
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Read my July column, "Is Buying American Patriotic?"
Posted by Debbie on December 1, 2008 10:50 AM to Debbie Schlussel