02.12.11
Made In China: It goes without saying
Latest giant product recall, faux-American company in Woonsocket, RI:
Baby Monitors recalled due to strangulations
Everything the company peddles is made in China.
Without discussing the poor designed product, the incident is just another illustration of why the US labor force is stagnant, except for high-end goods for the wealthy and arms manufacturing.
Since there is no obvious or easy way to reverse this without a radical overhaul of the country, one that’s not politically possible, it is now permanently embedded as part of a bleak landscape.