Tie a Yellow Ribbon?
Mar. 19th, 2007 03:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tikistitchMaybe not so much:
We were always kinda fuzzy on the idea of how slapping a cheap magnet manufactured in China on the back of your gas-hog Canyonero equated super-PATRIOTISM!!!! But there ya go.
Yellow ribbons dwindle with war support
For three years after the invasion of Iraq, it was difficult to drive more than a few miles through middle America without seeing a car displaying a magnetic yellow ribbon.
The magnets, bearing the slogan “Support Our Troops”, became a symbol of patriotism for millions of US motorists.
But as support for the war fades, demand for yellow ribbons has collapsed.
Magnet America, the largest manufacturer of the product, has seen sales fall from a peak of 1.2m in August 2004 to about 4,000 a month and now has an unsold stockpile of about 1m magnets....
Mr Pattisall said declining support for the war was not the only reason for the slump.
A flood of cheap imports from China also hurt the company, which has refused to shift production overseas even though it costs three times as much to manufacture in the US.
We were always kinda fuzzy on the idea of how slapping a cheap magnet manufactured in China on the back of your gas-hog Canyonero equated super-PATRIOTISM!!!! But there ya go.
