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Salt Lake 2002 Olympics paraphernalia obtained by ABC bears Made in China and Made in Bangladesh stamps...A collectible tin and several pins, including a cartoonish Romney likeness and a 9/11 pin bearing the words United We Stand, were manufactured in China by Aminco...the pin-maker, produced licensed memorabilia for the U.S. Olympic Committee, Romney did not work for that organization. He served as president of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee, which planned the games.
Weve found no mention of the memorabilia by Romney, a businessman brought in to save the Olympics from scandal and fiscal peril, but he did address the notion of cutting costs by buying from China in another area of Olympic organizing.
When Romneys Salt Lake Organizing Committee developed the Gateway plaza in Salt Lake City, offering patrons and residents the chance to buy bricks for $100 and have their names inscribed, the committee used granite bricks from China, despite an abundance of granite in the nearby Wasatch mountains, the Salt Lake Tribune reported at the time.
Its extraordinary, Romney told the paper, but its cheaper to get it from China.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/07/made-in-china-olympic-pin-shaped-like-mitt-romneys-face/
ananda
(28,890 posts)They souped up his face and hair to look like
a fifties superhero. LOL
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)China is booby trapping the USA. All the cheap crap is programed to self destruct at once.....problem is most of it is failing before it makes it to the scheduled date. Toaster oven....about 3 months.
meow2u3
(24,774 posts)Let me add...
Coffeemakers...about 6 months, even the high-dollar "premium" brands.
Microwaves...about 6 months to a year.
Mixers...about 3 months.
Companies are charging exorbiitant prices for cheap Chinese crap that self-destructs in 3-6 months. They've not only been overcharging for poor quality, they've shortened the length of the warranty so that they're designed to fail the day after the warranty expires.
"Companies are charging exorbiitant prices for cheap Chinese crap that self-destructs in 3-6 months."
...even granite. Who the hell thought that was a good idea?
lukkadairish
(122 posts)Completely incredible is the fact that Mitters even deemed a comic book pin with his mug on it....I mean, WTF? I would see the point with Sara Hughes or Apolo Ohno, but......effing really??
ProSense
(116,464 posts)Completely incredible is the fact that Mitters even deemed a comic book pin with his mug on it....I mean, WTF? I would see the point with Sara Hughes or Apolo Ohno, but......effing really??
...better way to satisfy Mitt's arrogance and giant ego than a little Olympic memorabilia emblazened with his likeness and made in China?