Federal Trade Commission
Received Documents
Jan 22 1996
B18354900077
Secretary

                          Joseph M. Hart
                       6860 Merwood Street
                     Worthington, Ohio  43235

Jan. 18, 1996

Office of the Secretary
Federal Trade Commission
Room 159
Washington, D.C.  20580

                              Re:  Made in the USA

To Whom It May Concern,

     I approach this subject with extremely deep feelings and emotions.  The globalists and
internationalists certainly have ignored what is good for the United States.
     Allowing for instance Honda or Toyota or whomever to lay claim to an American made
label is simply ludicrous.  Buying parts etc. for another Japanese owned company operating in the
U.S. skirts the issue.
     Perhaps all consumer goods should be required to bear the flag - highly visible - of the
country of the owners or of origin.
     The transplants of consumer products try to cloak themselves in the mantle of American
values and culture.  If our consumers are so bent on spending their money with nations that have
used and abused us and it is not just Japan, then they should not object to having more than a VIN
or other mark that will identify their car, TV, computer, garment, etc.  Current labeling is a joke.
     Consumers have little loyalty or patriotic feeling when they spend their money. 
Appropriate labeling may cause them to think more appropriately and correctly about what they
are doing.
     I do not want to live in a country who's claim in the year 2000+ is that we make the best
pizzas in the world.
     We are the world's biggest consumer.  Lets try to return to be the world's leaders in real
job formation.
     Maybe people will stop and think if they see the Korean, German, Japanese, French, etc.
flag on what they are going to buy not some obscure label about "domestically produced materials
assembled in ??? by ???"

A Proud and Concerned
Citizen of the
United States of America,

Joe Hart