A good story from our Progressive friends (slightly rewritten)

Just because an item is catchy doesn't mean it's accurate.

Here's one that I've seen before, picked up this time from Mid-Atlantic States Labor:

Joe Smith started the day early having set his alarm clock (MADE IN JAPAN) for 6am. While his coffeepot (MADE IN CHINA) was perking, he shaved with his electric razor (MADE IN HONG KONG). He put on a dress shirt (MADE IN SRI LANKA), designer jeans (MADE IN SINGAPORE) and tennis shoes (MADE IN KOREA).

After cooking his breakfast in his new electric skillet (MADE IN INDIA), he sat down with his calculator (MADE IN MEXICO ) to see how much he could spend today.

After setting his watch (MADE IN TAIWAN) to the radio (MADE IN INDIA) he got in his car (MADE IN GERMANY) filled it with GAS from Saudi Arabia and continued his search for a good paying AMERICAN JOB.

At the end of yet another discouraging and fruitless day checking his Computer (Made In Malaysia ), Joe decided to relax for a while. He put on his sandals (MADE IN BRAZIL) poured himself a glass of wine (MADE IN FRANCE) and turned on his TV (MADE IN INDONESIA), and then wondered why he can’t find a good paying job in AMERICA .

Y’all gotta Keep this one circulating, please.!

OK, great union made in American fodder, right?

Let's take a shot at rewriting it:

Joe Smith started the day early having set his alarm clock (MADE IN JAPAN ) for 6am; he woke to Sirius, the American-engineered satellite radio network. While his coffeepot (MADE IN CHINA) was perking, he sat out sugar from Louisiana and cream from Wisconsin. Meanwhile, he shaved with his electric razor (MADE IN HONG KONG), after having lubricated his beard with a shaving gel produced in Illinois. He put on a dress shirt (MADE IN SRI LANKA), designer jeans (MADE IN SINGAPORE), and tennis shoes (MADE IN KOREA). He complemented these with an American-made L. L. Bean jacket, a leather belt produced in Texas, and underwear manufactured in South Carolina.

After cooking his breakfast of American-produced bacon and eggs in his new electric skillet (MADE IN INDIA), he sat down with his programmable calculator (MADE IN MEXICO) that runs on an American-manufactured AMD chip to see how much he could spend today. Later tonight he would upload the data using an American-made Cisco software program into his American-made Quickbooks program.

After setting his watch (MADE IN TAIWAN) (necessary because he was replacing the American-made battery) to the radio (MADE IN INDIA), which was still tuned to Sirius, he got in his car (MADE IN GERMANY) that had recently been tuned up by an American automobile technician who added new American-made platinum spark plugs, traveled on four American-made tires, and had been repainted by an American enterpreneur. He filled it with GAS from Saudi Arabia (because US energy companies have virtually been prohibited from realistic exploration and development of new oils fields in America) and continued his search for a good paying AMERICAN JOB.

At the end of yet another discouraging and fruitless day checking his computer (Made In Malaysia) and running software designed in America's Silicon Valley, Joe decided to relax for a while. He put on his sandals (MADE IN BRAZIL), poured himself a glass of wine (MADE IN FRANCE), grabbed an American-produced frozen dinner, and turned on his TV (MADE IN INDONESIA) to watch the wide variety of entertainment produced in America and exported to the rest of the world.

He wondered why he can’t find a good paying job in AMERICA. He considered for a moment that he should have enrolled at the community college to update his skills, but then dismissed the thought. You should be able to find a decent-paying job with a high school education, right? Didn't the government owe you that?

Moral of story: it's never as simple as the so-called Progressives would like you to believe.

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