I've always considered myself like many others as been patriotic, I'm a proud Englishman thats for sure. However I was thinking the other day and come to the conclusion we all let our countries down when it comes to shopping.
I think all our countries are in a financial mess, we blame governments, bankers, immigration but what do we do to help, we go out and buy bargain goods made in other countries.
Of course we usually do this because good made in poorer countries using cheap labour save us money but I'm coming to the conclusion this is false economy.
The result is we have higher unemployment which in turn means we have to pay higher taxes to support these people. High unemployment areas have higher crime rates another downside and thats without the effects on the envionment shipping goods half way around the world.
Just as a experiment check the last 5 things you bought yourself and see where they were made, heres mine :-
Trousers - Morrocco
Jeans - Italy
Shirt - Indonesia
Shirt - Indonesia
Leather Belt - Made in England (I'm a good boy sometimes)
It doesn't stop there start checking your household appliances and I'm sure you wont find many built at home, probably Japanese TV's, Chinese washing machines, Indian Microwaves, etc.
Even the weekly grocery order is full of produce, grown, packaged and tinned from around the world (even got blueberries from Chile the other day).
So maybe we should all think about it and become real patriots and buy goods from our own countries whether that be the UK, USA or Australia.
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