...drkipper's Enterprises, Ltd...

...funny mailer...

5/1/07 02:32 pm - ...funny mailer...

I support the St. Joseph's Indian School. I don't send lots of money...maybe $25 bucks every other month or so. Anyway they send me reproductions of children's artwork and stories and address labels and such and I feel like it's all going to a good cause for the Lakota (Sioux) people because I really like Siouxie Sioux and the Banshees and such ya know...but I digress...

ANYWAY...the have sent me like 4 dreamcatcher keychains and they are hanging everywhere and are very cute and all. Today I was reading the card and on the back...

in the bottom right hand corner...

designed in the USA assembled in HONG KONG. Even our authentic American Indian handicrafts are of-Chinese these days...

NOW heritage has been outsourced? I heard the other day that most US flags are also made in China. I believe that my family tree has also been manufactured in China. NOT the original, but now, to save money...all new branches and any replacement parts...

btw, THIS journal is actually coming to you from within the Indocine borders as you read. Aren't the interwebs grand? Does my icon look a bit more exotic now...JUST slightly less roundish-er...

We are the world....bullshit...we are ~~just~~ China, ~~but~~ and we are taking over...lol

5/1/07 07:43 pm (UTC) - camper4lyfe

If I saw something like that, I'd inform them that until they fix where they're getting their stuff from (and indirectly where your money is going), I wasn't going to give them another penny.

5/3/07 08:16 pm (UTC) - czarrie

It's a good cause. I'm pretty sure Kipper isn't in it for the dream catchers.

5/4/07 12:02 am (UTC) - dr_kipper

I now dream in Chinese, which will help me become a more powerful NEW-thinking capitalist.

And you are right...I send them the money for the kids' education, etc, not the (hopefully soon to end) stream of Chinese made dreamcatchers.

I'll keep sending money...this was all just tongue-in-cheek

5/4/07 12:09 am (UTC) - dr_kipper

This is tongue in cheek. But thanks for looking out for me.

I am sure they keep the kids in school instead of allowing them to build dreamcatchers.

5/1/07 09:21 pm (UTC) - princeargon

Why do you think I've quit posting? My Chinese outsources were doing a terrible job of being uniquely me.

5/4/07 12:10 am (UTC) - dr_kipper

LOL... I can't afford to outsource.
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5/1/07 09:53 pm (UTC) - pissantpunk

HA HA HA!

that's too fu*kin' typical!

5/4/07 12:17 am (UTC) - dr_kipper

Yay for capitalism!

I bet if I call to complain I would be sent to a call center in India..."Tan yew for callink, my name is Blaine or Shannon or Belinda."

We are a completely global society!

5/1/07 11:39 pm (UTC) - clutter

I read an article about how "Support Our Troops" car decals made in China sell better because they're cheaper than the ones made here.

Apparently you don't actually have to support your country to be patriotic these days.

-Clutter

5/3/07 08:19 pm (UTC) - czarrie

I think this just goes to show that economics knows no political boundaries, and that the cheapest source of labor will almost always win. Think about it -- it's actually cheaper to have people from another country make some and ship it here than to actually produce it here. We are either asking too much in this country, or they aren't getting enough in return for their service. I assume the latter.

5/4/07 12:20 am (UTC) - dr_kipper

Wouldn't it be ironic if they were made in Iraq by insurgent children...
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