Speak Out: U.S. Olympic Team Outfits Made in China?
Some lawmakers are calling for athletes not to wear the opening ceremony outfits made entirely in China. How do you feel about the news?
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When Team U.S.A. walks into London's 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony, Friday, July 27, they'll be dressed in an outfit made entirely in China, reports ABC World News.
The news agency took a closer look at the outfit - created by famous American designer, Ralph Lauren - during their "Made in America" segment recently and found every piece was manufactured in China. In response, Congressional leaders in both houses and both parties expressed outrage at the news.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. said that the U.S. Olympic committee should be "ashamed of themselves," according to ABC. Similarly, Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-OH. said, "You’d think they know better."
Several leaders have already called upon the U.S. Olympic Committee to ensure all future U.S. team’s uniforms be made in America. Others have asked they scrap current uniforms and have them remade by an American manufacturer over the next two weeks.
Smyrna Family
7:43 am on Saturday, July 14, 2012
Should they be remade in America in time for this Olympics? --- Yes.
Brian
12:16 pm on Sunday, July 15, 2012
This is just a symptom of a much bigger problem: manufacturing in the United States has been off shored too much by greedy people and has hurt our middle class. We need to bring back American manufacturing. With Nafta, Canada and Mexico are one thing (that money gets back into ouur economy very quickly) but outsourcing to Cambodia and China is ridiculous. Plus, the workmanship is usually inferior
Chris Long
3:11 pm on Sunday, July 15, 2012
You're right Brian, those greedy people who demand that businesses make goods at the lowest possible prices, while simultaneously demanding the highest wages possible, w/the most benefits possible, & costly compliance measures are driving our businesses out of the country to places where they can actually survive to meet demand for their products. But then those same greedy people complain that it's actually the business owners' (the people who went out on a limb & assumed tremendous risk to start a business, employ people & hopefully turn a profit...to benefit themselves among many others) fault that the jobs are gone. Look what those greedy people have done. This issue is significantly more nuanced than your appallingly simplistic representation would have anyone believe.