The Sockalypse

Just like me, many of you received socks as a Christmas gift.  By now you know the true meaning of the Mayan calendar.  It was not the end of the world, just the end of getting a pair of socks that fit.

I was raised in a time when you could purchase American made socks, that, no matter your age, the sizing chart was correct.  A size eight shoe size meant that any eight-ten sock size would work fine.  Not any more…  George Bush and Bill Clinton saw to that by sending all our sock jobs to China and Indonesia where people with tiny feet construct our socks to their size worldview.  NAFTA, GATT and all the other charitable giveaways have put Americans and western civilization as a whole in an awkward situation.  The elves that construct our socks are squeezing us to death!

Honestly, the last three packs of socks I’ve opened have all been two sizes too small.  Of course, as a gift, they have to be worn.  So you pull on these new socks which are beyond skin-tight, they are blood vein tight.  If you can stand the full foot pressure all day long, by the time you take them off, your feet are on the way to Geisha size.  Let me illustrate my belief with a picture.  Here is a normal size sock size 8-12.

Here is the same size from our tiny footed sockmakers.

And a proper comparison…

I have noticed however, that If you wish to pay three times as much, the sock sizes correct themselves.  This is obviously a mind trick to make us send even more money overseas.  Not only are profits higher due to less material being used to make a proper size for the masses, the top 10% are suckered into the scheme as well. A cash pyramid plan where the remaining American dollars(those left after buying Arab oil) are transferred for poor quality socks.  A financial Armageddon would follow bringing down the western world.  Our soldiers couldn’t even fight due to their squashed feet.  How evil and diabolical is that?

We must cancel the sockalypse!  Write your congressman now and demand a return of sock manufacturing to American soil.  Since foreign graft and corruption rule Washington, go immediately to plan B.  Buy all your socks two sizes larger.  We’ll show these tiny people they can’t fool us all the time, just most of it.

Protection is for Everyone!

     I've been re-reading Pat Buchanan's book, The Great Betrayal.  It fits into the mindset I've had lately about the economy and jobs.  America is in a great orchestrated decline and we've done it to ourselves. We are so manipulated by the media that we keep electing the same sorry politicians from both parties.  The "free traders" who brought us terrible laws like the Trade Expansion Act under Kennedy all the way to NAFTA and GATT under the Clinton & Bush years!

     In theory "free trade" should work, if you have an equal playing field.  There isn't one!  Other countries don't play by the same rules.  Why is it liberals and conservatives alike are so determined to end our country?  America has given away all our manufacturing jobs for cheap goods from China and Mexico.  My parents worked in the Alabama City cotton mill.  It's gone.  Republic Steel employed a lot of people in Gadsden, gone!  There used to be sock mills all over Ft. Payne, Alabama.  Most were closed the last time I drove through town.  Think of all the factories gathering dust around this country!

     I remember the Arrow shirt factory in Boaz.  They had a factory outlet store, where you could buy good shirts for $5.00.  A lot of people worked there till it was moved to Mexico.  It was probably argued then that products sent back would be cheaper to buy.  I was at Kohl's this morning and an Arrow shirt was selling for $26.00.  I will never wear another Arrow shirt!  Then, Tyson in Boaz, was caught bringing in illegals from Mexico to work in their chicken plants...

     There is no patriotism anymore.  At least not from business!  There are plenty of folks loyal to the dollar, yen, euro, etc.  "But we will convert to a service economy" claimed Robert Reich, labor secretary under Clinton.  The problem is that service sector jobs don't feed a family nor pay for a house.  Both parents have to work and still end up below the poverty line.  But we still will stand up with our hand across our heart saying the pledge of allegiance!  The propaganda machine is still up and running.

     Until we toss the myth that protectionism is bad for our country, we'll never recover!  We have got to secure our borders!  Let's stop illegals from coming in and jobs from going out!  If the new politicians can't get it right, lets throw them out too!