I heard today about foreign markets declining to buy 'made in USA' items

What would happen if the entire rest of the world decided to boycott and sanction business with the US in exchange for immunity for war crimes? What if they decided to just deal with each other and cut the US out? What about that 1/3 or our debt that foreigners hold? WTF is this Bush administration setting in motion?

made in the usa now.

if they get really miffed at us.

I suspect that the fallout from Dubya Imperator's Big Sandy Adventure has hosed the prospects for a lot of US products in the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia. I suspect that a lot of car and construction equipment contracts will go to EU, Japanese, and Korean outfits because of this folly. Another Runnin' Dubya Posse contribution to Amurrican "prosperity."

Manufacturing and IT are increasingly foreign.

Especially if it's the latter, I'm sadly compelled to support the boycotters. The US wants everything its own way: Give out middle class jobs to foreign countries at sub-poverty pay rates, Americans to buy what is made overseas, wants foreign countries to buy "our" goods, and demands everybody supports us whenever we sneeze or have to go tinkle.

Sorry, but that ain't moral. If we are to be a "world community" the the US has to be an equal member, not the corner bully.

Don't forget, our buddies the Saudis have trillions invesed in our companies. Should they pull out, it's economic doomsday for the US. (Thank you Michael Moore for telling us that scary tidbit, it makes nuclear war that much preferable these days.)

I guess anything with USA anywhere in the label or on the box.

not much, I am afraid. We have lost our manufacturing assets. They have gone somewhere else, where they pay their employees a pittance and make a lot more money than they would here in the USA.

There is practically nothing being manufactured here at all.

I once took a trip along the Connecticut River Valley. So many little small towns that depended upon the "mill". Picteresque, indeed, and charming in their simplicity, but virtually nothing there that could support the town.

all the "mills" are abandoned and nothing much being done with them at all.

Some places have converted these old brick mills to apartments or even offices, depending upon the population. Small towns are stuck with the brick, abandoned mills.

It is interesting the history of the mills.