Red, white, blue Olympics uniform flap laughable
Lewis DiuguidIt almost sounds like a joke you’d hear at a bar: lawmakers in Congress are upset over the U.S. Olympic Committee picking Chinese-made uniforms for America’s Olympic athletes.
But U.S. lawmakers over decades were the ones providing tax breaks and other enticements that caused companies to close factories in the United States and ship jobs overseas. U.S. flags, Olympic uniforms, clothing, shoes, furniture, cars, trucks, computers and other items are made elsewhere and sold back to people in the states, where the unemployment rate is more than 8 percent.
It’s silly for Republican and Democratic lawmakers to chastise the Olympic Committee for buying Chinese made goods saying its causing the U.S. textile industry to suffer. For most consumers buying goods made elsewhere is a mainstay. Searching for a product with a Made in the U.S.A. label is like trying to find a video you always wanted in a Walmart bargain bin. Good luck with that.
The U.S. Olympic athletes no doubt will look mighty fine dressed to the nines in their Chinese-made clothing as we watch them on TVs, smartphones and computers also made in China and other countries.
Kent Mueller
10 months, 1 week agoI agree that our legislatures shouldn’t get all indignant about this. However, the committee should have see the criticism coming.
I would like to know specifically what tax breaks and other enticements Congress has provide America business to send jobs overseas. I hear that said a lot, but I never see just what legislation that was.
Charles Purvis
10 months, 1 week agoHave to agree with Lewis on this one. No need to get all indignant about what the Olympians are wearing; it’s no different than what everybody else has on.
Mark Hastert
10 months, 1 week agoWhat with all the incentives to produce goods elsewhere CAN we buy uniforms made in the US?
Kent Mueller
10 months, 1 week agoMark, our government is providing incentives to move jobs elsewhere? With no other positive effect? With no other rationale? Please list?