Can’t trust the American flag. Those “Support Our Troops” car magnets you used to see everywhere with the flag and yellow ribbon? Made in china. I wanted one but couldn’t have it because of my own personal boycott. I went into Garden Ridge the other day — everything made in china. Walked out empty handed. Same thing at Ross. Wal-mart often provides an American alternative at least.
You rarely can tell where anything is manufactured. Look at a label and you’ll see “Distributed by ... in the USA” ... the “manufactured by (country) ...” is NOT there. I have written my senators and congressman asking that the little flag of the manufacturer’s country be on everything. The “flag” becomes their brand. They screw up on pajamas, they lose sales on anything else with their flag on it. Right now, if you saw a Chinese flag, you wouldn’t touch the product ... but right now, YOU DON’T KNOW who manufactured most of this stuff ... it is HIDDEN from us. I think this is a basic consumers’ right to know issue. (No answer from any of my emails).