Why Made in America Products Are More Important Than Ever Before
Dependence on cheap and low-quality products from China for so long has put America in a vulnerable situation economically. Dateline: March 9th, 2022/Creve Coeur, MO. USA/Written by: Jeffrey L. Klump When I was a kid I remember watching T.V. commercials almost always promoting American-made products, and not just automobiles. As I got older, the mood was changing in this country especially in the '80s when everything was all about Japan and the fine workmanship of Japanese products. American manufacturing was in many cases connected with labor unions and even in the '80s, unions were tied to corruption and organized crime. At least in the movies and on the news, it was. As time went on in the 1990s, more Americans than ever were focused on buying products as cheaply as possible regardless of where they were made and what the quality of the products they were. Cheap, cheap, cheap was in. American-made was either out or I don't care. A...