Are you old enough to remember when “made in Japan” meant inferior goods? I remember the cheap Japanese transister AM radios when I was a kid. I remember my parents mocking the imported cars my grandparents drove. After WW II Japan did an amazing transformation. It was ironically ignited by American consultants during the occupation. With almost no natural resources they focused on adding value to imported resources and selling finished products. Every decade their economic ministers focused on developing a new industry to world leadership. By the 1980s they were buying up America… Then they stopped acting like we used to and started acting like we do. They remain a major economy, but not the explosive threat they were.
Fast forward to today. Chinese goods have been viewed as the old Japanese goods of the 1960s and 70s. Yet everybody is consuming their goods. I saw yesterday that China is the third largest economy in the world and they are now the major trading partner with Latin America, displacing the US. China is not Japan. They have resources and land and over a billion people. The US finances it’s huge debt by selling bonds. Who is buying more than anyone? China. While we are going sideways by well over a trillion dollars in deficit this year (on top of a much larger debt) China has an extra trillion dollars laying around to make loans to developing countries. Are you starting see China differently?
I admit Kitty Hooch isn’t an economic power by any means, but in this time of economic instability you can be sure that 100% of the money we take in stays here in Oregon. Yes, we’re organic and the best quality. We’re old fashioned and we’re guaranteed. We also contract with people to do field work and support our wholesale efforts. It may be a drop in the bucket, but it’s our effort to support made in America products. The next time you go shopping think about where your dollars are going. When you shop with Kitty Hooch remember we are not only the best and the only certified organic hand processed catnip. we are one of the very few toy manufacturers that keeps your dollars in the good old US of A.