SEW ON, AMERICA!

I remember at looking in the label of my burnt orange sundress and thinking how cool it was made in the same country of my brother's cap.. So, of course I knew that there were clothes made in other countries but I never knew what that meant before. To me, it now means that we as American women have put control in other peoples hands...
I was only a child during the age of protests and sit-ins (where ARE those people now?), but I think that American women made a mistake when they threw away their sewing machines at the same time they burned their bras. We thought is was cute to not know how to cook, but we put our health in other people's hands. We thought it was brave that we were promiscuous, but now we made our bodies as valuable as cubic zirconias are compared to diamonds. We thought we were doing something by shedding the old. but instead we are told what to wear by people who do not care about us and are wearing things made by people who want to be us. You do not gain power by throwing away your traditions. I believe you gain power by keeping what is good , you just have to redefine it once in a while.
I think about this more and more when the people I know who sew complain about lack of sewing jobs. I hated when the place that made covered buttons and pleating in Philadelphia closed down. Now I have to go to NYC. A guy who at my favorite notions store in NYC said that as things become global more places will shut down. The ironic thing is that the some of the same people who used to benefit from sewing factories being here in America are the same people who buy the $10 pants that were made in India. We do not pay attention! I just hope that I personally will be where I need to be and not be the one who did not make it when the pied piper played his instrument.
Does anyone look for the "made in the USA" label anymore?