This year I managed to spend nil, but altogether, we Americans spend north of $600 million on fireworks every year. This equates to $2 for every man, woman, and child in the USA.
Almost all of our fireworks are imported directly from China (Police Republic of China), marked up by wholesalers, and sold retail to eager Americans celebrating the inalienable right to the pursuit of Star-Spangled happiness - and to blow stuff up every 4th of July and New Years.
Cheap labor keeps the manufacturing jobs in the PRC (Police Republic of China), while also keeping the international shipping magnates happy, and creating thousands of temporary roadside retail jobs in the USA. At minimum wage. :/
So China profits and sleeps well. International shipping magnates profit and sleep well. USA wholesalers profit. Everybody else? Well...not so much.
Question: What if we put our American ingenuity to work to create more manufacturing jobs here? What if we could employ disabled Americans, and other unemployed workers, to manufacture fireworks here?
Who wouldn't you pay a few bucks MORE to blow up stuff with MADE IN THE USA written on the side! I know I would!
Peace. Aho. Ahorsewithnoname.
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