"Made In America" Is Made In Honduras

http://kevin-wardsworld.blogspot.com/ ^ | 04/16/2011 | Kevin A Ward

[kevinaw2]

Made In America?

So, I'm at Sears at the Westshore Mall here in Tampa, Florida and this shirt was pointed out to me by my sister. It's a small child sized shirt that as you can see says "Made in America"  with the flag on the shirt. Nothing new here really. You see this product all the time. Except the label on the collar tells a different story. The picture below shows "Made In Honduras".Yup, that "Made In America" shirt being sold for American children with a mind of instilling some pride is in fact made in Honduras. I don't know the working conditions in Honduras, but I'm sure it's not as much as the $5.00 price tag to buy it at Sears.   

[Loud Mime]

Made in America may be Central America, South America, etc..

Made in the U.S.A. is what you need to find.

[pnut22]

I do believe the flag indicates USA.

[USMCPOP]

My two kids were assembled in America using foreign and domestic components. :)

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[Malsua]

I know exactly where that shirt was made.

It’s just outside of El Progresso in a park called Zip el Porvenir. I know this because I’ve been there.

I can tell you that the working conditions in that facility aren’t bad at all and the people are happy to have a job.

If you look at my video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzJb_hOPhgc

and slide it towards the end, you can see as we arrive at the fairly modern facility. Youtube made me swap out the “original Sopranos music”

[moehoward]

To be fair. That's just a design.

I've been in the rag biz for 30 years and watched tags go from "100% made in America" to "Assembled in -fill in the blank- from USA Cotton", now the only thing American about it, is where it's sold.

That particular product is probably not even printed in the USA.

There was a fantastic documentary on HBO chronicling the garment industry in the USA called Schmata: Rags to Riches to Rags

[dangus]

No, no, no, no. The flag is made in America, and by America, they mean the United States of America. But the shirt is only the packaging; the product inside the shirt (the kid) is made in America.

[Brilliant]

Personally, it doesn’t bother me that $10 t-shirts aren’t made in the US. The guys who make them get paid 50 cents an hour. Let Honduras make the t-shirts. We will make the tractors, airplanes, and skyscrapers.

[ReformedBeckite]

Probably the shirt material was cut in the U.S. shipped to the other end of world, where they sew it all up except for the buttons or one button and then they shipped it back to the states, and then a bunch of illegals sew the one button on and call it made in the U.S. And then the illegals package it up. And then American store prices it 1000% higher then what they paid for it and then the immediate mark it down 60% so you can feel like your getting a great deal.

[Texas Fossil]

America vs United States, interesting concept. Where have I seen it before? Think about this:

According to the Director of Health of the State of Hawaii, Obama is a "natural born" American Citizen. (think about it, he could have been born in Canada and still be an American Citizen, but not a United States Citizen.

Here is the statement by Dr. Chiyome Fukino, Director of the Health Department of the State of Hawaii:

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Dr. Chiyome Fukino, Hawaii State Health Director, has issued a second statement Monday, July 27th confirming President Barack Obama was born in Honolulu, HI.

“I, Dr. Chiyome Fukino, Director of the Hawaii State Department of Health, have seen the original vital records maintained on file by the Hawaii State Department of Health verifying Barrack Hussein Obama was born in Hawaii and is a natural-born American citizen.

(note- she said a "natural-born American citizen, NOT natural born United States Citizen.)

I have nothing further to add to this statement or my original statement issued in October 2008 over eight months ago,” Fukino said, in hopes of ending the controversy surrounding Obama’s citizenship.

Nowhere did she say that she had seen the original "birth certificate"

[TheBattman]

Nothing new.

Back when I was in college, I had a friend who worked for VIRCO Manufacturing (many here are likely to be familiar with the company). For a time, he worked in a big warehouse “assembly line” where they unboxed chairs completely made in Mexico, were unboxed, they stuck a “Made in USA” label on the chairs, then reboxed them in new boxes and shipped them out.

How they got away with this, I have no idea. But it was still going on when he left there for a better job.

[muawiyah]

There's much more to the Central American t-shirt industry than meets the eye.

Our working crew leader on the building maintenance team used to be a supervisor in a shirt-factory in El Salvador. One day the communists came and bombed her factory to the ground destroying all the machines and putting thousands of people out of work.

She fled to America. Eventually even the families of those same commies fled here having found that their efforts were quickly turning their homeland into one of the world's worst and most bottomless pits.

That particular war wasn't organized for any purpose that anyone could see, and was meaninglessly violent.

She eventually got back into the t-shirt business. Won't tell you how but it was back in El Salvador ~ and she and her family sold their shirts all over the place.

T-shirts are national dress ~ it's hot and humid throughout the region most of the time. There's brand name competition ~ bet you didn't know there are DIORE and Louis Voutan labels on El Salvadoran t-shirts. Makes 'em sell well. You see a Honduran, Salvadoran or maybe even Nicaraguan label on a t-shirt, be assured it is a fine garment, cut and sewn by good hardworking people who really are grateful for the job, and for some of them very thankful for the business lessons they learned in America.

They are making their homeland a better place in this world.

Frankly I am surprised to find that there's another FREEPER on this thread who knows something about Central America's t-shirts.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Made in (the) America(s). Haven’t you heard of the NAU - North American Union?

[Oztrich Boy]

Haven’t you heard of the NAU - North American Union?

Yes, but Honduras is part of the Franco-Spanish Holy Alliance.

[familyop]

Sure. Free trade, globalism and destruction of America: made in America! Don’t you see?