Posted on 07/24/2007 8:40:30 AM PDT by CHEE
Exactly!
What used to be well made, US or Canadian brands,are now made in China. The names the same, the quality sucks.
Hubby just went out and bought an expensive Alpine stereo system for his truck. I asked, is it made in China? Sure as chit. It was. It is getting harder and harder to find things that are Not made in China. Sometimes we have no choice.
I’m fed up with the cheap crap made in China. The quality isn’t there. It’s cheap plastic. Breaks easy. I’ve gone through plugs for my Sirius radio. It’s made of cheap crap. And I am sick of it.
That’s why I had my U.S. flag hand-made by a friend.....couldn’t find one made in America at the time.
One thing I do is join a local freecycle group. Granted you may get something made in china but you don’t pay for it and nobody gets any taxes from the transaction. Yes someone had to initially buy it but it wasn’t me.
Chinese goods are ten cents cheaper! Export jobs, import guest workers, and print more money! We can all stay home every day and buy cheap stuff on credit!
In economics, "dumping" can refer to any kind of predatory pricing. However, the word is now generally used only in the context of international trade law, where dumping is defined as the act of a manufacturer in one country exporting a product to another country at a price which is either below the price it charges in its home market or is below its costs of production.
A standard technical definition of dumping is the act of charging a lower price for a good in a foreign market than one charges for the same good in a domestic market. This is often referred to as selling at less than "fair value." Under the WTO Agreement, dumping is condemned (but is not prohibited) if it causes or threatens to cause material injury to a domestic industry in the importing country
Harbor Freight has stores....... to go there is a wonderful experience. One must be very careful to singlemindedly buy only what you go for. The temptation is great.
Our trike company is listed on this website:
They *used* have a lot of trike manufacturers listed but removed them because most of them were just Lehman trike dealers who -assemble and install- trike kits that are *not* made in the USA.
To get around this “bias”, Lehman bought property in the US and established a “US headquarters”.
Lehman stocks were tanking so Harley bought rights to their trike kits and will be selling “Harley Davidson trikes” soon.
They’ll -still- not be made in the USA.
[much like most of the “Made In China” HD accessories]
Pitiful.
Unfortunately, we even have Freepers who could really care less about anything beyond their own lust for cheap goods.
Show them that Chinese weapons are killing our soldiers and they still don’t care. Instead they try to blame it on democrats.
All that proves is that you didn't look very hard.
Yes. I am also fed up with “Press for English”.
I break into a cold sweat when I pick up a screwdriver, but I really did enjoy a visit to the Harbor web site. I love tools, but they don’t like me.
I usually fill-up one of those orange hand-baskets on advertised `cherries’. I paid Snap-On prices for years, but they were a business expense then. I bought something last Saturday for $3.00 that Sears had on sale for $20.00—same thing.
It’s axiomatic in political science that if you have to choose between appealing to patriotism or pocketbook, at least if you want to win, appeal to the pocketbook.
And have you noticed that some of the same people who make the argument that it’s OK to buy Japanese cars because they are a value (compared to American steel) then have the temerity to argue that Nissan, Toyota and Honda are “American companies” because Americans work there?
And then they urge us to `Buy American’?
Lunchtime’s over, back on my head . . .
Or Target. Or Kohl's. Or Dollar General. Or Toys R Us. Or Best Buy. Or Circuit City. Or _______________ (fill in the blank).
There was a brand of clothing I used to like, then it started being made in china and it is terrible now. It wasn’t cheap stuff either. I still have the older stuff and it looks good that was not made in China and it looks nice.
I never thought to check if my flags were made in America or not but I noticed the label while I was waiting to pay and put it back down...then I started checking and was amazed that I couldn't find an American flag made in America.
Google “US+made+american+flag.” It works.
If you do happen to find one, odds are the materials to make it were likely imported.
I bought a push mower this spring made by Yard Machines. It has a tag right on the deck that says, “Proudly made in America, by Americans for an American company”. So far so good.
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