Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D.

To the Editor:

I was shocked to see the photograph and read the sad story of the family of six living for the last seven months in a motel room. The parents both lost their jobs before the move.

I believe that many of the lost jobs are now being done by people in foreign countries. We are buying services and products that are made overseas rather in the United States. I suggest that to help our jobless millions, those of us who can afford it should try to buy goods that are made in America.

I am putting a bumper sticker on the back of my (American-made) car saying, “Help our jobless; buy products made in the U.S.A.” (And I am practicing what I preach.)

Samuel O. Raymond
Falmouth, Mass., March 11, 2009
The writer is a retired manufacturer of deep ocean scientific equipment.