Meh, not so much.
So I’d like to tell you about my toaster instead. My winter home is the very definition of hodge-podge. Everything, the furniture, the appliances, the silverware/dishware was purchased at a garage sale. Lamps, chairs, tables and book racks were all bought second hand. Maintaining two homes gets rather expensive and so bargains were sought after with a vengeance.
My toaster is seriously over-built. This thing has to be at least 60 years old and I feel confident that I could drop it from atop a 10-story building at noon and still be toasting bagels with it at 12:05. It is ancient; if I didn’t own firearms, swinging this bad boy by the 2-prong plug would be my primary home defense weapon.
I marvel at how old and how stout this toaster is. If I flip it upside down I read an odd message…
Mansfield Ohio, Made in the USA.
Wow.
I know it may be hard to believe, but I’m a huge smart-ass. I have been known to ask the “helpers” at Walmart to direct me towards various items that were Made in America. I receive one of two responses:
1. Blank stare.
2. High decibel laughter
That’s when I say, “Oh…well thank you anyway” and I walk out of the store.
Doing a little bit of home inventory of my Gun cleaning tote bag, I discovered some gold encrusted butt-nuggets.
WinOil(Winchester oil), Gun Scrubber and Sheath Rust preventative are made in Eden Prairie, Minnesota.
Hoppe’s #9 solvent is made in Overland Park, Kansas.
Hoppe’s complete gun cleaning kit is made in Oregon City, Oregon.
Outer’s Gun Oil is made in Onalaska, Wisconsin.
Ox-Yoke Originals Best Dam Gun Oil is made in Milo, Maine.
Protech bore cleaner is made in Memphis, Tennessee.
Hoppe’s gun grease is made in Coatesville, Pennsylvania.
Brass bore brushes, bore snakes, ram rods, patches…all made in the USA.
My most recent ammo purchase was 100 rounds of .380 to feed the PPK and Makarov. Made in East Alton, Illinois.
I have at least $150 invested in my grab and go gun cleaning tote bag and as far as I can tell, everything in it was made in America.
While I don’t find the absence of coverage surprising in the MSM, it’s got to chafe a bit at The Messiah’s thighs to have the one bright spot in an otherwise crappy economy be firearms related.
While auto makers were begging for bail-out billions, gun manufacturers were hiring and still had a 6 month back log on EBR’s. While Bank exec’s begged for cash, ammo manufacturers were hiring and adding entire shifts to meet demand.
The Messiah saw the coverage just as the rest of us did and sank his head into his lap knowing he couldn’t bring himself to shed light on the only bright spot in a sea of darkness. It ate at his very soul.
He searched for any good news to serve up to the masses to justify that his policies had a positive effect.
Yet in the end, the only manufacturing growth was due to direct opposition to his ascension.
How poetic is that?
2 comments:
Had an old friend who told of his teenage son accidentally losing(?) some 38 rounds in an old chrome toaster, shells went off while his sister was doing toast. That just gave the toaster a more rounded look, still worked. Made in America just lasted too long, fewer replacements, lower profit.
Thank you
Those are the only things made in America at a wal-mart with the exception of a couple food items.
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