See "The Burning Hellcat" above
My old man's that old man,
Spent his life livin' off the land,
Dirty hands, and a clean soul.
It breaks his heart seein' foreign cars,
Filled with fuel that isn't ours
And wearin' cotton we didn't grow
He's got the red, white, and blue flyin' high on the farm
Semper Fi tattooed on his left arm
Spend a little more in the store for a tag in the back that says ‘USA’
He won't buy nothin' that he can't fix,
With WD40 and a Craftsman wrench
He ain't prejudiced, he's just made in America
He loves his wife and she’s that wife
That decorates on the Fourth of July
But says 'Every day's Independence Day'
She's golden rule, teaches school,
Some folks say it isn't cool
But she says the Pledge of Allegiance anyway.
He's got the red, white, and blue flyin' high on the farm
Semper Fi tattooed on his left arm
Spend a little more in the store for a tag in the back that says ‘USA’
He won't buy nothin' that he can't fix,
With WD40 and a Craftsman wrench
He ain't prejudiced, he's just made in America
Born in the Heartland, raised up a family
Of King James and Uncle Sam
He's got the red, white, and blue flyin' high on the farm
Semper Fi tattooed on his left arm
Spend a little more in the store for a tag in the back that says ‘USA’
He won't buy nothin' that he can't fix,
With WD40 and a Craftsman wrench
He ain't prejudiced, he's just made in America
Made in America
Made in America
My old man's that old man,
He's made in America.
[HT: Chasmatic & Ol' Remus]
Posted by gerardvanderleun at September 1, 2014 9:58 AM
Amen and Amen. Can't hardly do that all today, can hardly live a week without buying Made in China crap.
Posted by: Threads at September 2, 2014 5:23 AMBeing an American is an Inside Job. All the distractions like race, gender, age, political preferences, spiritual framework, all that stuff does. not. matter.
Attitudes and action are what define an American to me.
Do you think them guys back in the 30s, they worried about the cultural mix?
As if what was happening in some yocky-dock country in the Balkans - ooh, the Muslims are this, the commies are that - as if that was gonna affect them having a roof over their heads and food on the table for their families?
If ya didn't work ya didn't eat. That's pretty basic. Didn't have to think about injustices to migrant workers or whether women were getting paid the same or whether queers could get married. They weren't reluctant about calling some folks deadbeats, moochers, parasites, like, gee, it's gonna hurt their feelings.
I simply do not understand the anti-trade animus of this blog and many Americans.
You used to be the greatest commercial trading nation in the world, now you are economic illiterates.
Does it not occur to you that if you will not buy, then you can not sell? How can we foreigners buy your exports if you will not buy ours?
Did you not watch Americans cheat you when they had a near monopoly from trade barriers or otherwise? Was it not car imports from Germany and Japan that forced the large American automakers to stop cheating you?
Do you support the lunatic trade protection policies of the Europeans? If it's crazy for them, why is it good for you?
Ricardo wrote about comparative advantage in 1817, and yet some still have not got a clue.
Posted by: Fred Z at September 3, 2014 12:25 PM
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