Posted by Mark in Flagstaff [172.68.34.156] on Sunday, September 18, 2016 at 02:43:58 :
In Reply to: Re: Well said, Mark.. posted by Chewie [173.245.55.142] on Saturday, September 17, 2016 at 23:00:10 :
I'd love to be able to buy a pair of Made-In-America jeans, or even an All-American can opener. But I'd just as well try to find a flock of passenger pigeons: Not Gonna Happen.
One can still find American-made boots (White's, out of Spokane), which I insist on. Or an American-made leather jacket (Langlitz, from Portland, OR, Vanson, from Boston). I insist on those too, but the reality is that I'm largely buying nostalgia - a desire to go back to the Good Old Days.
The only thing that remains constant is change. In the 1930s, many people considered new (American) automobiles to be crap; the last REAL quality car, they proclaimed, was the 1920 Locomobile, which had a transmission made entirely of bronze.
"Everything comes and goes
Pleasure moves on too early, and
Trouble leaves too slow"
Such is life.
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