A friend of mine recently bought a Dell laptop and he was very proud of the fact that he has a Texas made computer, he called in the order, Dell made it for him right there and FedEx to him in a few days. Through trade publications and business contacts, I know Dell buys millions of laptops from Taiwan, he refuses to believe that his laptop is actually designed and made in Taiwan. Of course, it is entirely possible that his laptop was made by an American worker sitting in Texas, while millions of other Dell customers got the Taiwan made laptops.
My Masonic lodge voted to buy a new laptop not long ago, but few older gentlemen added an amendment that it must be an American made computer. That was really a problem, because there is no such thing, but thanks to smart American marketing, everybody thinks IBM, Dell, HP and Apple are American made. In the end, everyone is happy.
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