-Made In America,- In China By Jim Hightower!!!
(2019-05-22 at 22:04:14 )

-Made in America,- in China By Jim Hightower

The president pretends to stand up for manufacturing workers while kowtowing to corporations that flagrantly violate Made-in-America laws.

What is the matter with Donald and The Trumpeteers? Why will they not stand up for the United States of American workers and business owners who make their products right here in the United States?

Oh, yeah, I know they talk a good game.

President Trump himself even issued a bold, star-spangled executive order promoting the purchase of "American-made goods" produced by American labor.

We consumers respond positively to that pitch, generally preferring to buy everything from mattresses to hockey pucks that are manufactured here at home.

For example, take Patriot Puck.

What is not to like about this corporation, which literally wraps its hockey pucks in United States of American flag packaging and proudly advertises that they are "the only American-made hockey puck"?

Well, sadly, one thing not to like is that the puck-sellers pitch was a lie.

Its product actually turned out to be made in China.

Such a deceptive sales scam is not just unethical - it is a federal crime.

Saddest of all, though, is that when honest competitors and defrauded consumers protested the firms blatant deceit, President Trumps Federal Trade Commission appointees proved to be Made-in-America wimps.

Far from standing up for United States workers, they coddled the job-stealing culprit.

They assessed no fines, required no admission of the obvious corporate crime, and let it keep all the profits it pocketed from the fraud.

They did not even make "Patriot" Puck notify customers of its false marketing scam.

Instead, President Trumps regulatory "toughies" insisted that the threat of future fines would keep such outlaws in check.

Seriously??

The real crime here is our that our nations president is mocking the plight of United States of Americas manufacturing workers by making a spectacle of standing up for them - then kowtowing to corporations that flagrantly violate Made-in-America laws.

It is a shameful political fraud.

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