Vlasic pickles used to be made in America - now their main plant is in Poland and they buy their cukes from Europe.
My cousin was a lead mechanical engineer there - he had the sorry job of setting up the Polish factory and training the foreigners to take over USA jobs.
Walmart forced them to lower production costs and going overseas was the only way possible to keep costs at a level acceptable to Walmart.
Even their 4th of July T shirts are made in foreighn countries - like Afghanistan!
Walmart is the largest retailer in the world - their price squeezing went a long way to the USA losing jobs.
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Most of us drive CARS. They have brakes, brake shoes, and ROTORS
Rotors are HEAVY, made of iron or STEELE
20, 30, LBS a pair
Did you know there the ROTORS are shipped from?
Mexico
China
Brazil
Venezula
Italy
ALL...over EUROPE
Somehow we can PAY freight TEN THOUSAND miles or MORE and NOT buy American.
Why does so much of our produce, wheat corn goes OVERSEAS?
Remember THIS story
http://www.nytimes.com/1996/06/27/business/a-sweetheart-becomes-suspect-looking-behind-those-kathie-...
A Sweetheart Becomes Suspect;Looking Behind Those Kathie Lee Labels
By STEPHANIE STROM Published: June 27, 1996
Two months ago, a labor activist pulled a thread and Kathie Lee Gifford's storybook life began to unravel.
Overnight, the effervescent co-host of "Live With Regis and Kathie Lee," was branded a pariah after Charles Kernaghan, executive director of the National Labor Committee Education Fund in Support of Worker and Human Rights in Central America, told Congress on April 29 that
her clothing line was being made by 13- and 14-year-olds working 20-hour days in factories in Honduras.
Never mind that Wal-Mart was responsible for producing the Kathie Lee Gifford clothing line. Never mind that Michael Jordan and Jaclyn Smith have come under criticism for endorsing products made in sweatshops.
Let me ask, why is WalMart, Not Target bashed?