Just spend a couple of hours (literally) trying to buy a new coffee pot on Amazon that had features like "auto shut" off for less than $100 and was NOT made in China.
It can't be done.
I would carefully read all the details on a coffee pot that had the auto turn-off feature that I now deem to be essential due to my memory being friend,and regardless of the company that designed and is selling the item under their American brand name,the damn thing was manufactured in China.
Ended up spending around 40 bucks on an American name-brand percolator that was made in China because it was either do that,or do without.
My old perculator that IIRC,I paid something like 18 bucks for several years ago still works fine,but my short-term memory does NOT work fine,and the one I am using now will NOT turn itself off. Due to massive doses of chemo and radiation,the time has come to buy a coffee pot that turns itself off after perking.
As Pogo once noted a couple of decades ago,"We haz met de enemy,and he iz us!"
I am NOT happy about being my own enemy.
BUT.......,the US Gooberment doesn't care,Black and Decker doesn't care,and neither does anyone else in that "food chain" because all they care about is competing in a world ruled by Global bankers/Banking families.
It wasn't always like this. If you are in your 70's now like me,you grew up in a nation that was in charge of it's own finances and economy. American jobs,American workers,and the government all pulled together to keep "made in the USA" something to brag about,in addition to being something that would insure the freedoms and securities of the upcoming generations.
That is no longer true. Not only America,but it seems like every western nation in the world has now been pimped out by the international bankers.
I just wish I had even one suggestion to make that would reverse this,but it just ain't as simple as it used to be.
