Posted on 02/25/2014 9:40:01 AM PST by virgil283
I only read a bit, but I liked Mike’s answers. If he’s not a conservative yet, this dumping on him by the libs for ‘daring’ to support Walmart and American factories should start the tide turning.
Mike Rowe is, in my not so very humble opinion, one of the most important people in America.
He pretty much single-handedly made actual work, real labor, acceptable and honorable again.
Most of the backlash probably came from an organized labor union push to silence him.
I agree.
We need tradesmen. I recently invested in a friends welding business and am encouraging one of my sons to pursue the trades.
It’s hard, dirty and vitally important work and I appreciate Mike Rowe for championing it.
I work in an office for a company that manufactures products used in home repair and construction. It sickens me how inept even many of my co-workers are when it comes to actually doing something with your hands. Too many are afraid to even try.
When I was looking for a house, my realtor told me he observed a major item missing in almost every home he shows with owners under 40. A workbench.
I can’t wait if/when he gets a gig with Henry Rifles.
100% made in America and priced right.
The smoothest rifle I have ever shot.
I for one fully support WalMart's efforts here. I buy American made whenever I can, and often I look long and hard to do that before coming up dry.
I'd love to see a "Made in America" boom. Hope WalMarts efforts help towards that goal.
Watch the guy on CNN (Marc Lamont) in the above link. He simply cant address the importance of revitalizing our manufacturing base without reframing the whole conversation into a polemic against the thing hes been trained to despise. Its simply too hard for him to say, Good for Walmart. I hope they succeed in this endeavor. Period. While he gives me the benefit of the doubt, he still believes Im fundamentally wrong for supporting their initiative. Why? Because Marc doesnt see workers and employers as two sides of the same coin. He sees sees them as enemies.
I hope Walmart is sincere in their efforts to do this. I would shop there if they do.
Isn't Mike a member of SAG?
You shoot rifles? I shoot coyotes.
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Ah, but work isn't necessary anymore now that we have Obamacare.
I think is Mike Rowe were to run for office as a Republican -OR- a Conservative Democrat (DINO) he would aesily win just by saying the same things he is saying now.
2 work-benches and a desk/office in my garage.....
One is made of a stack of those old 2” high, 3’ wide, 2’ deep steel drawers for giant blueprints/schematics. Put a table top on it whala..... 1 drawer for sockets, 1 for wrenches, total 12, sweet find.
I have to shoot them.
They are feral when they crawl out of the lake after all those boating accidents.
Walmart is yet another of the fortune 500 shipping jobs overseas for years now.
Now they want to pander to the “conservative” sheeple.
“Come on sheeple, go get a low paying job”.
Walmart is no good.
Unions are also no good.
Its not about Walmart.
I love this guy. Always have.
Secondly, if you do not have SOME sort of useful and/or marketable SKILL what USE are you to anyone? You’re useless to me. *SHRUG*
So Walmart is committed to buying 250 billion worth of US made products over the next 10 years.
Hmmm... Can’t help but wonder how much of their inventory is domestically sourced already. 25 Billion a year is nothing to sneeze at if it’s in addition to what they already spend on made in the USA products but I have no idea what the baseline is or how much of an inventory percentage it will represent.
That would make a big difference in my book.
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