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A physics teacher in high school once told the students that while one grasshopper on the railroad tracks wouldn't slow a train very much, a billion of them would.  With that thought in mind, read the following, obviously written by a good American.

 
       
Good idea .... one light bulb at a time ....
 
Check this out.  I can verify this because I was in Lowe's the other day for some reason and just for the heck of it I was looking at the hose attachments.  They were all made in  China  .  The next day I was in Ace Hardware and just for the heck of it I checked the hose attachments there. They were made in  USA  . Start looking.  (note here: earlier this week, RZ was in Lowes looking for a sprinkler head. Looked at RainBird and Looked at Orbits.  RainBird is made inMexico ; Orbits in the  USA  .  Orbits purchased!!)
 
In our current economic situation, every little thing we buy or do affects someone else - even their job . So, after reading this email, I think this lady is on the right track.  Let's get behind her!
 
My grandson likes Hershey's candy.  I noticed, though, that it is marked made in  Mexico   now.  I do not buy it any more.

 
 
 
 
 
       
My favorite toothpaste, Colgate, is made in  Mexico ... now I have switched to Crest. You have to read the labels on everything.

 
 
 
 
 
 
  
This past weekend I was at Kroger.  I needed 60 W light bulbs and Bounce dryer sheets.  I was in the light bulb aisle, and right next to the GE brand I normally buy was an off-brand labeled "Everyday Value.  " I picked up both types of bulbs and compared the stats - they were the same except for the price.  The GE bulbs were more money than the Everyday Value brand but the thing that surprised me the most was the fact that GE was made in MEXICO and the Everyday Value brand was made in - get ready for this - the USA in a company in Cleveland, Ohio.
 
So throw out the myth that you cannot find products you use every day that are made right here.
 
So on to another aisle - Bounce Dryer Sheets.  Yep, you guessed it... Bounce cost more money and is made inCanada .  The Everyday Value brand was less money and MADE IN THE  USA  !  I did laundry yesterday and the dryer sheets performed just like the Bounce Free I have been using for years and at almost half the price!
 
My challenge to you is to start reading the labels when you shop for everyday things and see what you can find that is made in the  USA  - the job you save may be your own or your neighbors!
 
If you accept the challenge, pass this on to others in your address book so we can all start buying American, one light bulb at a time! Stop buying from overseas companies!
 
We should have awakened a decade ago.
 
Let's get with the program.  Help our fellow Americans keep their jobs and create more jobs here in the  U.S.A.
 
I Passed this on. Will you?


1 posted on 02/01/2011 1:25:39 PM PST by Vendome
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sheeees how big are the keys on dat keyboard?

2 posted on 02/01/2011 1:28:04 PM PST by Doogle ((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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Great post, yes, I will pass it on.


4 posted on 02/01/2011 1:29:36 PM PST by mojitojoe (In itÂ’s 1400 years of existence, Islam has 2 main accomplishments, psychotic violence and goat curr)
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So where was our President made, do we turn him upside down to look for the label? From his actions I would say he was molded in a muslim country and shipped here. We need some truth in advertising on our CINC. Maybe we should file a complaint with the FTC and they will tell us as the SCOTUS and Congress don’t seem interested.


5 posted on 02/01/2011 1:29:53 PM PST by rolling_stone ( *this makes Watergate look like a kiddie pool*)
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ping


7 posted on 02/01/2011 1:30:43 PM PST by mojitojoe (In itÂ’s 1400 years of existence, Islam has 2 main accomplishments, psychotic violence and goat curr)
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Of course no company would every lie about where their product was made.


11 posted on 02/01/2011 1:33:49 PM PST by wideminded
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Hershey's bars used to be made in the good ol’ USA.

But Florida sugar farmers thought they needed protection from cheap imported sugar and our elected representatives gave them that.

So lots of candy companies had to move out of the USA, because their #1 ingredient was ARTIFICIALLY too expensive.

But I guess losing Hershey's, Mother's Cookies, See's Candies, etc is a small price to pay to make sure we grow sugar right here in the USA for more than it is worth on the world market!

Worse, the tariffs on imported sugar were sold to credulous Americans as being putting America First, Saving Jobs (dey took er yobs!), etc, etc.

12 posted on 02/01/2011 1:35:32 PM PST by allmendream (Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
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Gee, who’da thunk that you could get chocolate made in Mexico? Isn’t just about all cacao grown in Mexico?


13 posted on 02/01/2011 1:35:45 PM PST by MIchaelTArchangel (Obama makes me miss Jimmah Cahtah!)
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I would pass it on, but there are problems with the Mega-Letter post.

Reduce the size of the letters to default and the length to a paragraph.

19 posted on 02/01/2011 1:39:39 PM PST by muleskinner
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Vendome,

Completely off topic but in Los Angeles, there’s a Vendome St. Nothing unusual about that, but this street is somewhat famous because located on this street, about 1/8 of a mile south of Sunset Blvd., are the famous “Music Box Steps”, which were depicted in a 1932 Laurel and Hardy film, where they attempt to lug a giant crate, containing a piano, up a long flight of stairs.

The stairs and the house to the right of the stairs are still there. I happened to be there a few days ago, and climbed the 134 steps to the top.

The exact address is 923-937 Vendome St.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWm0nXJYLmk


22 posted on 02/01/2011 1:46:56 PM PST by Signalman
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>> Let’s get with the program. Help our fellow Americans keep their jobs and create more jobs here in the U.S.A.

Does that include supporting the Socialists, Leftists, Liberals, and RINOs that hate your guts and the Constitution?

Still a good idea.


23 posted on 02/01/2011 1:48:39 PM PST by Gene Eric (Your Hope has been redistributed. Here's your Change.)
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There must have also been a sale on large fonts.


24 posted on 02/01/2011 1:48:43 PM PST by Hacklehead (Liberalism is the art of taking what works, breaking it, and then blaming conservatives.)
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“I Passed this on”

Anytime you see this, don’t


26 posted on 02/01/2011 1:57:49 PM PST by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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Finally! Someone using a font that I can see without my glasses. From about 50 feet away that is.

:<)


27 posted on 02/01/2011 2:01:01 PM PST by An Old Man
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Yea, I remember when Wal-Mart opened; one of Sam’s goals was to ‘sell American.’ Now, however, they seem to be the Chnese Trade Mission, He (Old Sam) must be spinning in his grave.

I too look for “Made in USA,” but it is harder and harder to find.


29 posted on 02/01/2011 2:03:51 PM PST by ixtl (You live and learn; or you don't live long.)
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2 things:

1) When someone says they can verify something because they say they did it, it is not verification. It is possible that everything at Lowes is Chinese and everything at Ace is made in America in John Madden’s guestroom. But it is not verified.

2) If you are trying to come off as factual, why would you say you were in a store “for some reason?” Whats wrong with saying you were there for a hammer? Or just saying you were there?


33 posted on 02/01/2011 2:15:38 PM PST by Raider Sam (They're on our left, right, front, and back. They aint gettin away this time!)
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Like to shout, do you?


34 posted on 02/01/2011 2:17:16 PM PST by 3niner (When Obama succeeds, America fails.)
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I Passed this on. Will you?

Nope. Not into chain letters.

37 posted on 02/01/2011 2:34:40 PM PST by xjcsa (Ridiculing the ridiculous since the day I was born.)
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A while back I had to change out the flexplate on my son’s car after he had a mechanic replace the engine. An externally balanced 454 was put in to replace an internally balanced motor and the mechanic just used the orig. unbalanced flexplate. So I wanted new bolts. I went to 2 speed shops and 3 auto parts stores. All of them only had chinese bolts to sell me.

I ended up buying a box of 50 American made bolts from Mcmaster for cheaper than the blisterpack of chinese junk.


44 posted on 02/01/2011 4:55:18 PM PST by Elderberry
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The extra font you used was made in China.

You just bought them a stealth fighter.

46 posted on 02/01/2011 5:05:25 PM PST by Lazamataz (If Illegal Aliens are Undocumented Workers, then Thieves are Undocumented Shoppers.)
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What do you do when a lot of the products just say ‘from Arkansas’.


55 posted on 02/01/2011 7:36:02 PM PST by MHGinTN (Some, believing they can't be deceived, it's nigh impossible to convince them when they're deceived.)
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