Made in the USA

Remember the controversy about the Olympic USA Team uniforms being made in China a couple of years back? They US Olympic organizers say our team’s uniforms will be made in the USA for the upcoming winter games in February. Well it appears that another iconic symbol of the USA is also made mostly in China and making of this item and our government purchasing it from outside our country should bring even more concern. It is the symbol of our nation, the red, white, and blue, the American flag Old Glory, itself. Some students in Florida have brought this information to the forefront and are encouraging our government leaders to buy flags that are made in the USA through a bill recently introduced in Tallahassee called the All-American Flag Act. Representative Ritch Workman, a Republican from Melbourne, introduced the bill last month. If approved, it would require state, county and city agencies to purchase federal and state flags made in the United States. I think this is a good idea and hope it catches on in the rest of the USA too.