On 10/6/2011 12:55 AM, Carla Fong wrote:

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My grandson likes Hershey's candy. I noticed, though, that it is marked
made in Mexico now. I do not buy it any more..


Kids are kids but once. Telling them YOUR opinion is fine, but I tend to
feel that burdening their youth with your own political preferences at
every turn is exceptionally bad parenting.

In particular, this entire "save the earth" bull**** pushed in US grade
schools is frighteningly baseless. It is a scam, to gain social control,
and nothing more.


Whenever anyone tells you to "save the earth"--think of Al Gore telling
YOU to make sacrifices in everything you want, while he is holding his
Nobel Prize in one hand and his $12,000 monthly utility bill in the
other. Think of his FOUR children standing beside him, and don't think
of his wife, as they're currently separated.


This past weekend I was at Kroger. I needed 60W light bulbs and Bounce
dryer sheets. I was in the light bulb aisle, and right next to the GE
brand I normally buy was an off-brand labeled, "Everyday Value." I
picked up both types of bulbs and compared the stats they were the same
except for the price. The GE bulbs were more money than the Everyday
Value brand but the thing that surprised me the most was the fact that
GE was made in MEXICO and the Everyday Value brand was made in - get
ready for this - the USA in a company in Cleveland , Ohio .


A story just a few weeks ago noted the last major US light bulb factory
was closing. 'Major' meaning ~200 people.

So throw out the myth that you cannot find products you use every day
that are made right here....

This chain-letter is rather missing the point (though the US still is
doing pretty good in the chain-letter business!).

The point was not to hold on to a minimum-wage job--the point was that
making all these things in the USA was once middle-class jobs.

Until you understand why that is (and why it is not now) you haven't
learned anything.