Posted on 02/25/2014 9:40:01 AM PST by virgil283
[ 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. ]
My Favorite ad: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTfWomXAN8o
Marc Lamont is a nasty, vile racist...and communist.
...we recently had the first icy roads here in 20 years and my neighbor put on tire chains to drive aroundd. Three people asked what those things were and if he made them...no joke...
I buy things like motor oil at Walmart cuz I have no choice.
They have the big 5-qt jobbies and they’re cheapest.
I worked for a manufacturer once who sold to walmart.
I saw the PO’s.
Other companies, best discount, about 8% off regular manuf. price.
Walmart - 15% off.
No way anyone is competing with that.
Walmart has replaced what otherwise would be literally thousands of smaller stores.
Retail is shot.
I used to in retail back in the ‘80s; retail is toast.
Thanks new world order, for consolidating everyone out of a job.
An interesting, and scary, observation. I'm not too surprised, however. Perhaps it's just a byproduct of our computer-age, but it does seem fewer young adults want to do anything involving manual labor; woodworking, plumbing, bike repair, you name it. I've personally always gotten great joy from fixing things or proving to myself I could do something "real".
A job done in the real-world grades you with the dispassionate physics of "it works" -or- "it doesn't work". No amount of political connections, shmoozing, or whining will make a light switch work. It's all very objective, and I think that builds character and independence.
I know! I lost all of my fully-automatic Saturday Night special junk gun revolvers with high capacity detachable magazines in a tragic boating accident.
I’d be surprise if more than 1% of Walmarts inventory is manufactured in the US.
A decent guy. He’s an Eagle Scout too.
It’s odd, but the more society hates the Church for it’s urging us to become perfect, the more society blasts folks and EVERYTHING for being imperfect.
Walmart is not perfect - celebrate the good parts.
Mike Rowe uses too many crude innuendos, so I can’t let my kids watch the newer shows of his, but he does a great job showing us who and what we ought appreciate - hard work and hard workers. Why shoot the imperfect in this world - support and admire the good about them for Peter’s sake, as Jesus did Peter!
I always try to buy made in America products. But I try to avoid union-made products, just as much as I try to avoid buying products made in Mexico and China.
This is typical of the younger generation. I have built a workbench at each of the three houses I have owned. I am 50. However, the last two houses were owned by men in their 60’s & 70’s. Some guys just do not enjoy doing that type of work. They would rather play golf.
I took woodshop and metal shop in high school. Many high schools do not even offer those courses anymore, most likely due to liability.
Some guys/women are just not handy. Most of the time it is because nobody ever taught them. My dad was a master diesel mechanic and an owner operator truck driver. He and my mom grew up on dairy farms. They learned how to fix things. They taught me. A lot of the generation X grew up in single parent homes. Dad may not have been around.
We always pick on this guy named Eric in our office. Eric is not a handy guy. However, he is a 6 handicap golfer. When Eric bought his first house he borrowed Bill's(Bill is handy guy like me)cordless drill to hang some window treatments for the new Mrs. Eric.
He called Bill to ask him why it would not drill a hole.
Bill told him: “You have it in reverse.”
The next day he called Bill again to ask him another question: “who do you call to fill up your well?” Bill said:
“go around to the back of the house and hook up the hose to the spigot on the back, take the cover off the well head , put the hose in and turn it on.” THESE ARE BOTH TRUE STORIES.
Me Too.....I was looking over some steaks at the grocery....Mexico produced....?
The problem with stocking the shelves of most businesses in this nation is that this nation no longer makes those products. They are overseas. I believe most of these companies in this nation would make it here if they could afford to do it. Government puts so much red tape on all these companies to produce and simply cannot afford to pay what government requires they pay employees, taxes, and such. We have had several businesses around here go out of business because of the red tape. One guy told me he was shutting his business simply because he could not keep employees who would work, and because of all the taxes and red tape they kept piling on him. He actually was taking home less and less money for himself because he had to pay all the other stuff. All companies have to make a profit or go out of business. You go where the business climate is favorable to keep your doors open and selling. Don’t tell me you wouldn’t do the same thing if it came to your business keeping your doors open.
The more Walmart locally sources, the more other businesses will locally source.
Its amazing to me how little most Americans understand about how manufacturing actually works. They get their impressions from the auto industry or some other big industry like Boeing when they aren’t really typical of manufacturing as a whole.
Those big factories produce 1 product day in and day out. The parts suppliers don’t operate that way. The plastics shop that produces wheel covers for GM or Toyota are running a half dozen different secondary jobs on the side to supply different customers and industries.
I worked in a shop where our primary job was for Cadillac but we also made Ford, Toyota, and Jeep parts. Occasionally they made toys like frisbees or the plastic playhouses. In a sense, the big jobs help support the small jobs.
It’s not only liability, but also inability to teach trades. Here in NYC, there are a few specific trade schools at the high school level. There’s also plenty to go to after high school as well, but I’m just talking about the high school level. There’s probably very few to no high schools that offer trade classes these days, if they’re not already a trade school.
Possibly. I only buy grass-fed beef with an identified origin. Unfortunately, with our government-forced decline of American agriculture it will be more and more difficult to find domestic produce. But we still need millions of Mexicans to come here and pick it, I guess.....
I’ve seen those Grohe faucets on cruise ships (ships mfg in Europe).
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