Made in China

My husband made a comment last night that though meant to be humorous made quite a valid point, he said "it won't be too long before American's fly to China to have their children so they can have a sticker on their baby's butt that says 'Made in China'."
We have so many homeless people because we cannot afford to manufacture products in this country that might provide a job for someone and thus may actually provide a sustainable income that would allow people of this nation to live in a home (not necessarily a house) instead of the streets!
Why are we forced to go to a nation that doesn't respect its own people in order to get our products? I'll tell you why; because we Americans want it cheap and we want it yesterday. Just like there is little respect in this country there is also little regard for craftsmanship and quality. Today's definition of quality is a product that if it didn't break, fall apart or kill someone within the first 2 weeks of ownership of said product then that's a good quality product. The fact that our government mandates and regulates that items be produced safely, especially for our children, means products could be manufactured here more safely IF the American people would get off their butts and demand more products made in America. The excuse, and that is all it is an excuse, is that it is too expensive to manufacture most products here. We did that to ourselves people! We demanded cheaper and quicker lower quality products that would take away precious American job opportunities. We, the people of this nation, would rather go to Wally World and buy the same piece of crap made in China that our 1 million other neighbors have because it is cheap, may have toxins in it, is poorly produced, and will be adding to our credit card debt, just to throw it away in a week, a month, a year, whenever. Or we could have something well crafted, with longevity that was regulated so we know it is more safe than what is produced elsewhere... true, but then we would have to wait, and it would be original, oh my! Why have fine wood products when you can have particle board!? Why have toys that are made safely when you can have a toy painted with lead paint!? And why oh why brush your teeth with toothpaste that has nothing but toothpaste in it when you could instead brush your teeth with carcinogenic and toxic toothpaste!? Decisions, decisions, decisions.
Go to your favorite search engine type in "recall Made in China," "recalls from China," or something along those lines and see what you come up with. It won't be just toothpaste and Thomas the Train. It will be dog food, little girls jewelry, stickers with toxins in the glue, little boys cars with lead paint, crayons with toxins... toxins, toxins, toxins... notice a pattern here? The American government has no authority to regulate the production of items manufactured over seas. Which allows us to just freely give our kids, our pets, and ourselves items that may potentially be lethal.
Do you want to see change? I know I do! Stop buying items "Made in China." Buy items "Hencho in Mexico" then maybe their condition of living would improve and we could perhaps help that nation and its people aiding in a solution for illegal immigration--but that my friends is a totally different post. Buy items made in Germany, buy items from places that have some regard for its people and some regulation for manufacturing products... oh wait, now here is a novel idea BUY AMERICAN!