Where Are All The Jobs?

I'm out of work! Who can I blame?

(There is this stupid little ditty that has circulated long before anyone was even on the Internet. It's been circulated via fax machines and has even been in a magazine or two.)

It is thus:

DOWNSIZING AND LAYOFFS

Joe started the day early, having set his alarm clock (Made in Japan) for 6am.

While his coffeepot (Made in Germany) was perking, he shaved with his electric razor (made in Hong Kong).

He put on his dress shirt (made in Sri Lanka), his pants (made in Singapore), and his shoes (made in Indonesia). After cooking his breakfast in his new electric skillet (made in India), he sat down with his pocket calculator (made in China), to see how much he could spend today.

After setting his Swiss watch to the radio (made in China), he got in his Japanese made car and continued his search for a Good AMERICAN JOB!!!

At the end of yet another discouraging and fruitless day, Joe decided to relax for a while.

He put on his sandals (made In Brazil), poured himself a glass of French wine, turned on his TV (made in Korea), and wondered why he couldn't find a GOOD AMERICAN JOB!!!

Most of you can already see the stupidity of the above ditty, right? It is not the sleezy greedy companies like Monsanto, Enron, and General Motors, its us! WE are to blame because we shop at Wal*Mart and buy products not MADE IN AMERICA!

And if that's not us, then surely it's that son of a bitch next door who drives the Honda!

(I've seen this in a couple of places, but the version posted here was grabbed up from THIS SITE.)
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