While we were back in the states last week, Tom picked up a tool and recognized the familiar, although getting to be less so, logo of the little American flag with the tiny words Made in America just below it.  Then he looked a bit closer.  The little words seemed a bit different.  They read “God Bless America.”

As he read the packaging closely he found the real country of origen:  Taiwan.  How nice that the Taiwanese wanted to acknowledge our religious foundation in the US by including a little blessing with our flag on their product.

Or maybe not so nice.  What do you think, was modeling it on the standard Made in America logo, so that it would appear to a casual glance that their product was Made in America, an example of lazy design, or a transparent counterfeit?  Better check out those little flags more closely.