Chinese Mr. Coffee
Small appliances seem to last about a year and then go haywire these days.
Our electric coffee maker stopped making coffee or anything else a couple of weeks ago.
Since we haven't been making money for a year or so I thought maybe we could tough it out boiling cowboy coffee in a stew pot--since our electric stove still works--but the java was not pretty good.
I would forget to turn the heat off and the coffee would boil down to syrup and then I would add tap water and the brew would taste pretty weird.
So a couple of days ago we went shopping for a new electric coffee pot.
"Mr. Coffee" is a good name for a pot and the price was under twenty dollars so we splurged and brought it home.
When we unwrapped it I noticed that it was made in China as almost everything else is these days.
Before Nixon went to China--nothing in the USA--was made in China. Then there was a trickle of Chinese wicker baskets--and NOW everything!
By golly--EVERYTHING is OUTSOURCED!!!
No wonder there is no work for us!
The American manufacturers have exported all our jobs!
And kept the money right in the ownership class!~
I can still remember when "Made in the USA" on a coffee machine or dishwasher or a screwdriver or car--meant "QUALITY".
People in other countries admired "American Know-how".
We had better get back to that old ethic mighty quick--or there is going to be a long dry time in this country!
Because that Chinese "Mr. Coffee" pot makes real good coffee!
Our electric coffee maker stopped making coffee or anything else a couple of weeks ago.
Since we haven't been making money for a year or so I thought maybe we could tough it out boiling cowboy coffee in a stew pot--since our electric stove still works--but the java was not pretty good.
I would forget to turn the heat off and the coffee would boil down to syrup and then I would add tap water and the brew would taste pretty weird.
So a couple of days ago we went shopping for a new electric coffee pot.
"Mr. Coffee" is a good name for a pot and the price was under twenty dollars so we splurged and brought it home.
When we unwrapped it I noticed that it was made in China as almost everything else is these days.
Before Nixon went to China--nothing in the USA--was made in China. Then there was a trickle of Chinese wicker baskets--and NOW everything!
By golly--EVERYTHING is OUTSOURCED!!!
No wonder there is no work for us!
The American manufacturers have exported all our jobs!
And kept the money right in the ownership class!~
I can still remember when "Made in the USA" on a coffee machine or dishwasher or a screwdriver or car--meant "QUALITY".
People in other countries admired "American Know-how".
We had better get back to that old ethic mighty quick--or there is going to be a long dry time in this country!
Because that Chinese "Mr. Coffee" pot makes real good coffee!
Tomasito, 2008
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