Now it is Chinese Condoms???

I do not make this stuff up!

From the Kansas City Star, written by Mike McGraw.

"Stimulus? U.S. to buy Chinese condoms, ending Alabama jobs"

Call it a condom conundrum.

At a time when the federal government is spending billions of stimulus dollars to stem the tide of U.S. layoffs, should that same government put even more Americans out of work by buying cheaper foreign products?

In this case, Chinese condoms.

That's the dilemma for the folks at the U.S. Agency for International Development, which has distributed an estimated 10 billion U.S.-made AIDS-preventing condoms in poor countries around the world.

But not anymore.

In a move expected to cost 300 American jobs, the government is switching to cheaper off-shore condoms, including some made in China.

The switch comes despite implied assurances over the years that the agency would continue to buy American whenever possible.

"Of course, we considered how many U.S. jobs would be affected by this move,” said a USAID official who spoke on the condition that he would not be named. But he said the reasons for the change included lower prices (2 cents versus more than 5 cents for U.S.-made condoms) and the fact that Congress dropped “buy American language” in a recent appropriations bill.

Read the rest here.

Of course the comments are hilarious! eugmeister2000 says it best: "Won't the condoms be really really small?" and uisignorant says: "Better be care using them, your p-cker may fall off from contanination....
Hummm, maybe that is the plan...."

too funny.