LTTE: Made in the USA? Overpaid athletes

[RC]

Jim Rundlett-Doom, Fargo letter: Made in the USA? Overpaid athletes
The Forum
Published Sunday, March 25, 2007

Just the other day I was brushing my teeth with my electric toothbrush when I wondered where it was made. I looked, not made in the USA. Later I had some toast and checked out where the toaster was made, not in the USA. I listened to my not-made-in-USA radio and then drove to work in my not-made-in-USA car.

What happened? I’m old enough to remember when almost everything we owned was made here, including blue jeans and TVs. Now, almost nothing is made here anymore.

Oh, wait. There are at least two things still made in the USA, overpaid professional athletes and bad politicians.

http://www.in-forum.com/Opinion/articles/160658

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And it is really sad when they try to pass a law mandating that American Flags must be made in this country and it fails. The wingnuts will continue to buy their symbol of mindless patriotism that is imported from China because it is cheaper than the domestic variety. It didn't used to be that way.
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2007/02/16/flagban/

[China_cat]

1. Even babies aren't made in the USA any more.

http://ctlibrary.com/38686

Outsourcing Birth: Let an Indian Woman Have Your Baby
Plus: Good news from Europe on stem-cell funding.
Nigel M. de S. Cameron

April 5, 2006

Remember surrogate mothering? Rent-a-womb? Paying someone (usually someone poor) to have your baby for you? Most people frown on it. It's illegal in some places. Well, according to the Christian Science Monitor, the latest grim story from the world of Brave New Medicine takes us all the way to India for the ultimate in outsourcing.

[StClone]

2. "Bad Politicians"

Didn't he mean "crooked Republican Politicians?" I don't see a major upswing of Dems going "bad" but it sure is evident to me there's a bumper crop of Republican malfeasant.

[OneBlueSky]

3. societies pay for what they value . . . in our case, what we value above everything else is . . .

amusement . . . because that's what we pay our money for . . . not education, not science, not research, not peace, not helping the underprivileged, not energy conservation -- just amusement . . . athletes, entertainers, movies, video games, television, NASCAR races -- these are the things Americans value above all else, because these are the things we pay for above all else . . .

sad . . .

[dsc]

4. I find it amazing that we always complain about the sole set of people

who actually labor for their money. I am not enamored of our priorities by any means but at least these athletes actually work for the money.

[RC]

5. Being paid millions for playing games?

At the risk of hi-jacking my own thread, where is the productivity in playing school yard games @ hundreds of thousands per game. And paying $4000 for one Super Bowl seat? For what?

This country is being outsourced to the lowest bidder courtesy of the criminals running our government and all anyone cares about is their entertainment. Be it sports, NASCAR, American Idol or any one of several dozen non-productive time wasters. The Romans had nothing on our brazilian $$ coliseums.

We don't even have the productivity to supply the needs of our own troops anymore.

[Greyhound]

6. Don't forget the owners, they rake way more than their players, and we are so stupid

we actually pay them for the privilege. I don't blame the players, they just do what their good at and most would still do it if they didn't get paid.

"I have seen the enemy, and it is us" - Pogo

[dsc]

8. I am not arguing that our priorities are wise

but I am saying that these athletes are huge draws and create piles of money. I don't begrudge them their share especially given that the alternative is the owners.

[Solo_in_MD]

7. Overpaid artists (as in movie/recoding stars) too

I currently refuse to go to a concert that is not held in a coffee shop or club setting. In a couple of weeks I am going to listen to Seamus Kennedy at Harry Browne's in Annapolis.

"I don't fund no bling"