Face.
I don’t care what PolitiFact thinks is true or false.
I was at the Philips/Magnovox meeting in 2006. It was sad.
Or Computers, or anything electronic for that matter.
Translation: we will keep lying about Donald Trump, but we will expunge this one easily verifiable lie.
Well, at least we still make turntables:
And they’re not kidding when they say ‘Made in the USA’. Every single part, except the arm lift that comes from Japan, is made in the USA.
“… [I]n general, the protective system of our day is conservative, while the free trade system is destructive. It breaks up old nationalities and pushes the antagonism of the proletariat and the bourgeoisie to the extreme point. In a word, the free trade system hastens the social revolution. It is in this revolutionary sense alone, gentlemen, that I vote in favor of free trade.”Marx knew what he intended, and the people who deliberately conflate the free market and free trade know what they are doing too.
— Karl Marx, 1848
I have an Element tv on right now. It is a 32 inch model and I got it at Wal-Mart. I can’t recall the price but it was pretty low, something like $150. It has a good sharp screen.
I recall when I bought it, there was a “made in U.S.A.” print on the box.
This kind of stuff has been going on for a long time. I remember most post WWII Walthers were actually made by Manurhin in France. They were then shipped to Germany where they were stamped “made in Germany”. The workmanship was first class.
We will make electronics in the USA again . Trump will make sure we do and that is how Trump will Make America Great Again!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGHPpHy3ciA
TV manufacturing left the US long ago. I think late 70s or 80s.
JVC closed its last American TV factory, in New Jersey, back about 1999. Production was moved to Tijuana, Mexico. After about 8 years that factory closed too. Back around 2005 Tijuana was the TV manufacturing capital of the world, not anymore. Sony, Sanyo, and other Japanese TV manufacturers have bailed out of Mexico. Production went to China. Why pay a Mexican $8 per day when you can pay a tiny fraction of that to a Chinese worker.
Magnavox, Admiral, Hoffman, Zenith, GE, RCA, Westinghouse
(others?)
In 1995 the last US television company (Zenith) was acquired by Korea corporation (LG Electronics).
Bought a Quasar TV in the early eighties that was made in the USA, Tennessee I think. I was told at the time that that was the last TV assembly plant in the US. Not sure if that was correct, but it’s been a long time since any consumer electronics were produced in volume in the US.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tvKeNjoRSE
I can remember in the 50’s going to the drug store with my father when our tv would go on the fritz. Was usually the vertical or horizontal hold.
They had a machine where you would plug in tubes that you took out of your tv to see if they were good or not. If bad you could buy a replacement.
Sometimes it worked. Sometimes it didn’t.