Posted on 10/15/2009 5:24:31 PM PDT by jwparkerjr
In just a month since its official launch, a new Web site MadeInUSA has signed up more than 350,000 U.S.-based companies looking to encourage consumers to "be American and buy American."
Creators of the site hope to ensure that as many jobs as possible stay in the U.S. rather than be outsourced overseas.
For 50 years now, Mountain and Sackett, a tie manufacturer with a plant in Long Island City, N.Y., has made ties mostly by hand. Some 50 employees, some who have been with the company for decades, stitch meticulously for 40 hours a week. They get health care benefits too.
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Bump. that is my kind of website.
BTTT!
My neighbor has a store at the mall where he advertises “One of the problems I have found in the past is the flooding of the guitar market in the United States with poorly built, plywood, imported guitars.”.
It’s called “American Guitars”. All his stuff is made in China.
I took a good long look at it and couldn’t readily discern any ulterior motive on their part. They seem to be just a site that wants to help Americans buy American.
I’ll be interested in seeing how they do!
I have long said I would rather pay a few dollars more and buy from an American company, but it has to be for quality, not that it’s Made in America.
I buy everything I possible can from our manufacturers.
My Stratocaster was made in Mexico, in 2003, out of poplar wood, which is mostly used for paper.
I sure would love to get an American Series Strat, made by American hands, with American alder wood.
I just registered my wife’s business!
The only “controversy” to buying American, which I almost always try to do, is that some of the money ends up being laundered by unions and sent to the DNC or Democrat politicians. Aside from that, making the effort to buy American is a laudable thing to do. Why, even Wal-Mart has USA made stuff, if you check the labels.
it doesnt take much smarts to figure out who the real racists are.
Are conservatives allowed to buy? Of course when it benefits others...when they are told they can!
I wonder how much a tie costs?
As time went by there were fewer and fewer American companies from which to purchase.
IMHO, one of the saddest facts of life in 21st Century America is that we no longer make hardly anything. Can you imagine the world of hurt we would be in if we had to gear up to fight a real, full-fledged war.
Didn’t Congressman Jim Traficant come up with this idea years ago? Or was it an 800 number where you could find out if a product was Made in the USA?
God, I miss Traficant in Congress.
Is this old-school American, or the new “White men (and soon white women; they’re privileged too) need not apply” kind of American?
In 2002, after my post 9-11 deployment, I registered patrioticshopper.com and patrioticshopper.net. I wrote a web crawler that went through major retail sites and recorded “Made in the USA” products. My plan was to build a website that linked to these products and earned me cash through affiliate programs (pay for click, more if an actual sale was made). The site would have allowed users to search for Made in the USA products easily.
Alas, completing the work turned out to be too much for just me and my “partners” were more interested in the idea of the site than actually contributing. Then, due to an oversight in renewing the domain by one of my “partners”, I lost patrioticshopper.com to some Kenyan cyber-squatters.
Pissed off and exhausted from working a year and a half with no domain, I gave up.
These guys will get rich off this. That makes me both glad and sad at the same time. I *could* have had first mover advantage a long time ago.
Sigh...
“Didn’t Congressman Jim Traficant come up with this idea years ago?”
I don’t know. Duncan Hunter sounded sympathetic to the idea when he was in Congress. Free Trade is damaging the fabric of the American economy.
Thanks this is an iportat part of rebuilding America!!!
A "real" war in these times would be essentially over in the first 10 days...and actually over within a couple of months.
It's not what you can make, it's what you have. 50% of military assets expended in a week, the rest over a couple of months.
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