Sitting at your desk, and reading this article, probably on your computer screen, if you happen to glance six inches to your right or left you're almost certain to find something, actually 'many somethings' Made In China. Pick up any item lying on your desk, turn it over and see where it was made.
Take a walk down any aisle at Target® or Walmart® and you'll be confronted with an army of products, all Made In China. Pick up the phone and call American Express™ or other major company and, more often than not, you will be connected to a customer service center in India, or perhaps Peru.
Large and small, companies that once constituted the core manufacturing base of the United States have relocated the lion's share of their operations overseas, increasingly often to China. So why is this a bad thing? More to the point, what has any of this to do with a vanishingly small company like HairGenesis®?
Today, the United States faces an economic crisis, unparalleled in this country's history. In 2008, a simultaneous meltdown of the real estate and banking industry destroyed the accumulated wealth of tens of millions of Americans. Highly educated economic analysts pointed to an over leveraging of our asset base and the inappropriate making of loans to individuals who proved unable to pay them back. Now, today, in mid-2011 we stand shakily on the edge of a double-dip plunge back into another recession, perhaps one worse than that which occurred three years ago. Certainly, the banking crisis had its inception in poorly-granted loans.
But I see a deeper, more fundamental illness as the root of our troubles.
Concisely, I believe the driving factor leading to the 2008 economic crisis was the culmination of a decades-long exodus of industry from our shores. As compared with more than 200 years prior, we simply don't make anything here, anymore. A quick trip to Detroit, once the automotive capital of the world, drives the point home in crystal clear relief. Instead of a humming metropolis, turning out cars by the millions, Detroit has metamorphosed into a crumbling ghost town. Literally whole blocks have fallen away, reverting from silent emptiness, to rust and concrete, to wild foliage overgrowth. Is this the future for the entire country. Me, I see Detroit as the canary in the coal mine. Either we learn from our mistakes or we pay the consequences, in much larger coin.
So again, since this is a HairGenesis® blog, what has any of this to do with your hair and our company? If you've not guessed before now, you may or may not be interested to learn that the totality of the research, development and manufacture associated with HairGenesis® exists within the borders of the United States. The product you're trusting to protect your hair was conceived, tested, developed, and manufactured entirely here in the USA. We are proudly "Made In The USA".
Should this be the reason why you continue to use HairGenesis®? Or why you refer HairGenesis® to a friend, relative or colleague? No. Of course not. You should only use HairGenesis® because it works in revitalizing your hair. But does a small business like HairGenesis® represent a tiny glimmer of hope against the tide of companies being sucked away from our country. I'll leave that to you to decide. As it stands, at least for as long as I've anything to say about it, HairGenesis® will remain a proudly American company, for all the big things and little things that implies.
