So it seems my “made in America” image has evoked some emotion & copious hate mail.
Let me set some things straight.
Art is supposed to be controversial, I didn’t pursue art full time
to bend to the likes & dislikes of everyone else.
The motive for “made in America” was not that I’m an anarchist,
or anti-American. We host great opportunities, from our social freedoms to
our beer making freedom (in some countries, you have to follow certain recipes and protocols, to be allowed to call it beer)
The drawing is to show that basically in this country we only produce crap.
50 years ago we made everything from clothes hangers, fans, jars, hell even scissors were made here, it was
hard to find something that wasn’t made in the U.S.
You know what the largest export to china in 2010 was? Paper waste & scrap metal.
Growing up & still working in a small family manufacturing business,
(that started out in a garage & today still only employs a hand full of people)
That is a slap in the face.
Nothing of value seems to be made here anymore.
You know where the majority of the U.S defense components are manufactured?
China.
Did you know that our hypodermic needles are being manufactured in china?
Think of that the next time your getting an immunization.
Did you know that Wal-Mart has been known to sell U.S flags, Made in china?
Im not saying china should be producing nothing, they are a major a super power in the
global economy, the U.S. and the rest of the world needs them to function.
But really, major components to our military helicopters should not be
outsourced, our flags should not be made in another country.
No countries flag should be made outside that country then imported to be sold.
We shouldn’t have American companies sending their American employees to foreign countries
to train their counterparts, so that when they return to U.S soil they can be laid off.
Capitalism has turned into something that rewards such behavior.
Our very fundamentals are the ones that are destroying us, are we just
a giant oxymoron?
So its not me saying America is “crap”, its our policies, and our current way of life
that is turning us into nothing but producers of crap.