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Posted on 07/08/2012 6:46:59 AM PDT by BO Stinkss
I think it’s time we all started REALLY supporting our OWN country in whatever way we can,
I DIDN'T KNOW HALLMARK CARDS WERE MADE IN CHINA ! That is also why Idon't buy cards at Hallmark anymore, They are made in China and are more expensive! I buy them at Dollar Tree - 50 cents each and made inUSA
I have been looking at the blenders available on the Internet. Kitchen Aid is MADE IN the US. Top of my list already...
Yesterday I was in Wal Mart looking for a wastebasket. I found some made in China for $6.99. I didn't want to pay that much so I asked the lady if they had any others. She took me to another department and they had some at 2.50 made in USA . They are just as good.
Same as a kitchen rug I needed. I had to look, but I found some made in the USA - what a concept! - and they were 3.00 cheaper.
We are being brainwashed to believe that everything that comes from China and Mexico is cheaper. Not so. One Light Bulb at a Time...I was in Lowe's the other day and just out of curiosity, I looked at the hose attachments. They were all made inChina .
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, people . . .In our current economic situation, every little thing we buy or do affects someone else - most often, their job.
My grandson likes Hershey's candy. I noticed, though, that it is now marked "made in Mexico ." I don't buy it anymore.
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 60W 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 them: they were the same except for the price . . .the GE bulbs cost more than the Everyday Value brand, but the thing that surprised me the most was that that GE was made in MEXICO and the Everyday Value brand was made in - you guessed it - the USA at a company in Cleveland, Ohio.
It's Way past time to start finding and buying products you use every day that are made right here.
So, on to the next aisle: Bounce Dryer Sheets... yep, you guessed it, Bounce cost more money and is made in Canada . The Everyday Value brand cost less, and was MADE IN THE USA! I did laundry yesterday and the dryer sheets performed just like the Bounce Free I have been using for years, 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 - you're sending the jobs there. (We should have awakened a decade ago....)
Let's get with the program and help our fellow Americans keep their jobs and create more jobs here in the USA.
WD-40. Duct tape. Bugle-head screws: the Holy Trinity.
I did my best also.
Ruger
Marlin
DPMS
Springfield Armory
You get the picture?
What set me off? Trying to find just ONE umbrella that wasn't made in China. It wasn't easy...of course; I was in commie territory at the time (Vermont), which didn't help. Finally found one 'Made in Malaysia'...
Sweet.
best blender is viatmix, refurbished is a better value.
American born, American made, and a 5 year warrenty.
Coors is 50% Canadian ;-)
The only American beers I ever liked were from the small breweries.
Ruger, S & W, Colt, Savage, and many others!
GM is no longer an American automobile company - GM not only stands for Gubment Motors but Global Motors
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=Lvl5Gan69Wo
ON the positive side....
Found out recently that New Balance athletic shoes are made in USA
I'm glad to hear that is still true. I've always favored NB shoes, but as I get older, the shoes seem to last a much longer time. I'm due for retreading soon.
Let’s not get too carried away with this “Buy American” BS. In many cases it is union propaganda to get consumers to buy products made here by union labor to support their lifestyle. They do not want you to purchase cheaper, foreign made goods because it hurts their cause. In many cases, the American product is more expensive than the one made in China for this very reason.
We live in a consumer based free market (in theory). My job as a consumer is to get the best product for the best price, period. Thinking like this is what allows failed and anti-competitive business models to survive and it allows unions to justify their negotiation practices. This is how the “too big to fail” thinking takes hold. “We just can’t lose all of those American (union) jobs to foreign competition!” Use patriotism to get people to buy the overpriced product due to union labor costs.
By the way, what exactly is an American company? Is it where it is based? Where the profits end up? How do we decide? What about all of those auto companies who employ THOUSANDS of non-union auto workers? What about Honda, Nissan, BMW, Hyundai, etc? They employ thousands in the U.S. Should we no longer support them because they do not use union labor? What about all of those jobs? I just read recently that Airbus is opening a huge plant here in the U.S. More jobs for us, but they are not an “American” company. Do we not support them if they offer the best product for the price?
We have allowed unions and other factors to make it too expensive to manufacture many products in the U.S. I do not blame companies for moving. Many here believe a company should be loyal to the U.S. and its workers. Meanwhile, those same workers continue to elect Democrats and vote for politicians who continue to strangle them with regulations, unions, and the highest corporate tax rates in the world.
Like GM?
No. Honda
Whatever you say unions are doing does not absolve China and how china has been dumping products into the U.S.A to destroy the U.S. You say you are for free enterprise and free markets, but you are not because you are for allowing China to merge their economy with the U.S.A’s. You and Obama are allowing China to dictate industrial policy to us, what we manufacture etc.(which is nothing soon). I am for the separation of the U.S. and china you seem to be for the merging of the two, with a communist country. Funny that the U.S. was much better off for all the 50 years of the cold war when the U.S. had a trade embargo on china. why are you for the merging of china and the U.S.? you are a globalist. are you for any border or any laws at all , customs, border control? We have a nation and a constitution and borders. We have to protect them . We can’t allow china nor any nation to send a billion immigrants into the U.S. or a million pounds of cocaine, or a thousand tons of chemical weapons if they just say it is “free trade” ( yes sending workers can also be called free trade so are you for allowing China to send a 100 million workers into the U.S. since you are for allowing china so much freedom? that’s what you are saying you want to give china freedom and you justify it by calling it freedom. Well we can’t give monsters that are 2 billion strong freedom to destabilize and destroy America be it by allowing it to send armies, or millions of workers, nor any of the things I mentioned so neither can we allow china to DUMP TRILLIONS OF PRODUCTS THAT ARE DESTROYING U.S. ABILITY TO MANUFACTURE AND ADVANCE TECHNOLOGY AND PRODUCE JOBS. But you are for that . China is a communist nation. China has an industrial policy and has imposed that on the U.S. as clinton and Obama have allowed China to increasingly merge their economy with the U.S. The socialists use “free trade” to destroy the U.S.
AND you say free trade has killed unions. Well the unions like the teamsters, teachers unions, SEIU, nurses, and government workers unions are stronger than ever. Yes I am against unions but there is no reason to trade with nations such as communist China.
Put up the trade embargo against China. We had this for 50 years of the cold war and during this time the U.S. was on top of the world. Lifted embargo and the U.S. decline began.
The SIEU and teachers unions and government workers unions thank you for downplaying the growing power and influence these unions have in electing socialsts/communists and driving the socialist agenda.
The SEIU, teamsters and teachers unions and government workers unions thank you for downplaying the growing power and influence these unions have in electing socialsts/democrats and driving the socialist agenda.
You must have slept through the last 3 decades.
Unions are on a respirator.
Have been since Reagan torched PATCO.
They’re getting clobbered on the state level all over the US, even in traditional liberal strongholds like California, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.
In Indiana where I live, the first action of Gov Mitch Daniels in 2005 was de-certifying the UAW as the representative of the state employees.
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