USA Olympics Team uniforms made in China...

[tt11758]

Yet there was no uproar when the Secret Service bought two luxury motorcoaches, FROM A CANADIAN MANUFACTURER, for the dickhead-in-chief to use while campaigning for re-election.

[RTFM]

@ tt11758 - um... that was GM Canadian mfg facility.
No biggie really.


@ Timothy  - Yah mate, not saying I don't like it also - and someone needs to be strung up by the short and curly's for such a dumb moves. Unless it was totally intentional... which would not surprise me in the least. Just that we have no dog in the fight.... other than to piss in the wind and say this sucks.

This Sucks!

[Timothy]

This Sucks!

It do suck indeed!

[philw]

The sheeple don't give a damn!

Bingo!!!


then again what is not made in China these days..   the list is getting shorter and shorter each year..

[Big Frank]

I don't know if it's been posted here yet but the uniforms for 2014 will be made here. http://times247.com/articles/team-usa-s-olympic-uniforms-will-be-made-in-america-in-2014

[Sponsor]

[tombogan03884]

That's because Chinese winter wear sucks.
In Korea US Troops froze in their summer weight uniforms.
Chinese troops died in their quilted winter gear.

[MikeBjerum]

I don't know if it's been posted here yet but the uniforms for 2014 will be made here. http://times247.com/articles/team-usa-s-olympic-uniforms-will-be-made-in-america-in-2014

Thanks Jumbo.  However, that does not explain ...

1.  Why the 2012 uniforms are being made in China;

2.  And it only states that the uniforms being worn during the opening and closing ceremonies will be made in the U.S.A.  What about everything else they wear as they compete?

[alfsauve]

1.  Why the 2012 uniforms are being made in China;

Simple.

The Olympics is all about the money.   All decision are based on what brings in the most money to the US Olympic Committee (USOC).

The USOC doesn't "buy" the uniforms.  They accept the donation of them from the company who is willing to PAY the USOC the most money.    The winning "bidder" gets the advertising rights and their logo is seen on all the uniforms.  

While the USOC mandates certain things, mainly quantity and schedule, they don't require the uniforms be made in the US.  That would drive up the cost to the bidders and lower the money the USOC receives.

Ralph Lauren, in an effort to keep their advertising cost (this is what this is for RL, advertising) down, then seeks the lowest cost method of fulfilling the "order".  Hence the Chinese made ones.  

Sure RL is willing to go with US made ones for the winter games which aren't as big and don't require as many outfits.

[Rastus]

Never thought I'd agree with anything Harry Reid has to say!
<snip>

Only because the selfish, self-serving, soon-to-be-senile old goat either did not know it was Ralph Lauren or did not know that Lauren was a big Obama & dimocrat supporter.  I didn't know about Lauren either....no more Polo for me and when I pass through Dillards and the salesmen asks I'm going to tell him why I keep on walking.

[tombogan03884]

Another stupid, unconstitutional idea from the dumacratic party.

http://hotair.com/archives/2012/07/13/senate-dems-introducing-the-team-usa-made-in-america-act-of-2012-seriously/

Six U.S. senators put out a statement late Friday detailing the bill, saying it will require the committee to adopt a policy that ensures ceremonial uniforms are “sewn or assembled in the United States.”

    “The U.S. Olympic Committee was 100 percent wrong to outsource the manufacturing of U.S. uniforms for the opening ceremony to China,” Sen. Bob Casey. D-Pa., one of the sponsors, said. …

    The lawmakers introducing the bill signaled it would be applied to future Olympics, but continued to call on the Olympic Committee to “do the right thing for this summer’s team” by soliciting new, made-in-the-USA uniforms. …

    But Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., who is also sponsoring the new bill, called on the committee to use an American company, suggesting Rochester-based suit maker Hickey Freeman as an ideal candidate for the job. He also said the New York state firm would be “thrilled” to partner with Ralph Lauren provided Ralph Lauren wants to make the uniforms stateside.

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After all the stink about Obamacare anyone who supports this is a blithering idiot.
Since the USOC is a private organization, that receives no federal money it does not fall under the "commerce clause".
The clause that applies here would be the "equal protection clause".
As long as one private US corporation (GE) is allowed to contract their manufacturing needs to China then all private US corporations have to be allowed to do so.
This is the equivalent of saying Rastus can't shop at Cabela's, but every one else can.
I'm not impressed that the USOC did this, but I was not impressed when GE made the same choice.
An even bigger reason to burn them is because they look asinine, like something the Soviet "Young Pioneers" would have worn on May Day.
But that is part and parcel of the current communist regime.