Posted on 11/09/2016 4:36:50 PM PST by TwelveOfTwenty
Well, we did it. We beat the Democrats, and got a President who will bring our jobs back. Now, what can we do to help?
Buy American.
I know, I know, you can save $.10 by buying a foreign made pen, but where will that savings go? It will create jobs for workers in other countries, whose taxes will pay for their infrastructure, military, space program, and benefits.
That pen may have cost more if it was made in the USA, but what you get for that extra $.10 is American workers paying taxes to pay for our infrastructure, military, space program, and benefits, and less government dependents collecting that money. Isn't that more important than that $.10 you would have saved on that foreign made pen, especially now that our candidate is President Elect?
For those of you who don't want to buy UAW made cars, I understand. I had to hold my nose over the UAW label when I bought my last car too, especially after Obama had just bailed the UAW out at everyone else' expense. If you don't want to go that route, there are plenty of non-UAW choices. Hyundai builds many of their cars in Georgia, who went red and helped Trump get elected yesterday. There are other choices, and as another Freeper suggested, if you want to keep profits in the country, then buy stock in the company you buy the cars from. Then, some of those profits come back to you.
I understand this over simplifies the issue, but the point remains. Any jobs we can keep in the country adds to the tax base paying for the rebuilding we voted for, and every American made part helps.
We wanted a chance to get our country back, and we have it. Now, it's up to us to keep it.
It is more than Buy American, it is Hire Americans, and it is support American businesses.
I used that as an example to illustrate my point. Substitute paint brushes, notepads, or anything else.
Several years ago I bought a Chinese screw-cutting metal lathe. 7x10 from Harbor Freight. Cost me about $370, with a 20% discount, and not including sales tax. Would be about $450 today. The nearest US-made equivalent was $10,000.00 at the time.
I'd like to look closer at this example. Can you point us to links showing the screw-cutting metal lathe you bought and the comparable American made product? As you said, inquiring minds want to know.:)
Sterlite plastic containers are USA made. Most every thing on our Navy base Exchange is FOREIGN MADE. That has to change.
Don’t shop Happy Holiday stores this CHRISTmas. Avoid all anti-2nd Amendment places that you can.
Speak with your wallets. Just as we did Target and their men in ladies bathrooms idiocy. Cut the Sports cable if they continue to support the crappers.
Won’t it be fun to hear *MERRY CHRISTMAS* greetings from the White House, again.
To find good quality American-made machines like lathes, I suggest going to estate sales.
Many older folks used them with their home hobbies. But it can be very time consuming, going to *estate sales*. But they are out there.
That is why we need an impartial across the board import tariff of 20%. That should get the job done.
Most people do not buy lathes. Your anecdotal evidence is moot, pointless and stupid.
Old Student is obviously spreading Free Traitor™ agitprop.
YES! The McCamey’s What a FIRST CHRISTmas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPwVmzK2xl8
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