[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 14359]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      READ LABELS ON WHAT YOU BUY

  (Ms. KAPTUR asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. KAPTUR. Mr. Speaker, when you start wondering where all the jobs 
in America have gone, just read the labels on what you buy. You will 
know the answer. What's happened to the proud logo, ``Made in 
America''?
  Our jobs have gotten shipped out by the millions and millions by the 
multinationals. They offshored them to places where people who labor in 
sweatshops can't afford to buy what they make. America will create jobs 
here again when we start making products here again. We have been 
amassing a trillion dollars of trade deficit year after year. That 
means more imports coming in here than our imports going out.
  So read labels carefully. Maytag washing machines used to be made in 
Newton, Iowa. Now they are made in Monterrey, Mexico. You know what? 
The people down there can't afford to buy what they make. Then those 
machines are shipped back here. And did you notice the price for us 
didn't go down? Hundreds and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds and 
thousands and millions of our jobs were outsourced to places where some 
of our students can't even spell the names.
  Did you know 10 percent of the exports out of China go to one 
company? Wal-Mart, you guessed it--clothing, tools, gloves, even frozen 
fish.
  When you start wondering where all the jobs have gone, just read the 
labels on what you buy. You will find the right answer. It's time to 
make goods in America again.

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