Made-in-China U.S. Olympic uniforms spark political row

[Midnight Marauder]

Originally Posted by Abogada

We have always imported coffee, tea.... No one spazes out about that.

Can't grow those here in any quantity sufficient to meet even a tiny bit of demand.

[moomin]

If I ever buy a hardware porn item - be it a video tape or a DVD - I'll be sure to check it out. Just checked out my Cisco router at home, btw. Made in Taiwan. All the kitchen stuff is Electrolux or Siemens. The tv set is a Sony. Furniture all local. The only thing I can point to as American is my genuine OS/2-mouse mat, and that just because I dilberted ("make a better living stealing office supplies!")it from Oak Ridge when I left. And now that I think about it, I wouldn't place any bets that thing was actually made in America.

So the real American exports these days are Hollywood movies and licensed software? Are there any American hardware producers that still a) produce in America and b) do so for internationally competitive consumption?

[American Horse]

Should all the contries competing in the Olympics manufacture their uniforms in their own country? Isn't that what's implied?

Should all the uniforms be manufactured in the US, regardless of the country in the Olympics? If we wanted that, then we should've subsidized it by buying the uniforms and giving them to all competitors free, to the Olympics.

This appears to me to be a gross example of the ugly American personified, and way too thin skinned.