Dogtags handed out at a recent GOP gathering.
Posted on 07/24/2007 8:40:30 AM PDT by CHEE
If you are upset with the USA trade balance, as I am, then you may wish to check out some of the merchants on the Source URL.
http://www.texasjeansusa.com/made_in_usa_jeans.html
It irks me when I see “Made in China” OR “HECHO EN MEXICO”.....
Why is this post Vanity? You’re darn straight I’m tired of seeing that label ...
Right now I am most concerned about the food stuff. Thanks so much for info
All I have to do is walk through my house.
I can remember the same objection in the 50’s to made in Japan.
STOP buying this crap and it will stop showing up everywhere. Pay for a quality American made or European made item and keep it. Buck the trend to be trendy.
Japan wasn’t feeding us poison and selling weapons to our enemies.
I spent a lot of time griping about “made in China” labels-to absolutely no avail.
My computer,printer,digital camera,and at least half my software wears that label now ; mainly because that’s just about all you CAN buy in certain product lines.
Is there a site for “Made in USA by workers in non-union shops”?
Otherwise, I’d only be trading the enemy without for the enemy within. Given that choice, I’d rather pay a lower price.
Why ? Joe Consumer happily pays for Toyota and Honda vehicles built in the good ole USA.
I’m going to boycott the stuff made in China. The downside is I won’t be able to shop in Wal-mart anymore, the upside is I’ll have all kinds of disposable income now because everything’s made in China.
Are you kidding, it's not just the huge stores. The Mom and Pop stores carry the same stuff.
OUR management people made the decisions to base their value added on slave labor, and to evade environmental regulations. So they pay a twentieth of the labor, the waste is dumped in rivers, their markups become astronomical, and the prices are STILL dirt cheap. It will be hard to wean consumers away from that, and harder still to wean stockholders away from the markups and sales volumes.
Dogtags handed out at a recent GOP gathering.
My little 6 year old is just beginning to read and said, WHY DOES EVERYTHING SAY MADE IN CHINA?
The 50’s? Not hardly. ;)In the 50’s, “made in Japan” was relegated to a few things like cheap china found in the five and dime. Japan was *not* the major supplier of our food, clothing, appliances, automobiles, farm equipment, etc., etc. Yes, some of us can actually remember that far back. :)
You might be thinking of the 80’s?
No....
I have several very good tools made in China. They were inexpensive and of very high quality.
The trade deficit is a media term so there will be something tho complain about. American jobs depend on exports and with a cheap $$ are putting our competition away.
It is noo longer 1950. We live in a world where we must compete. Russia is an excellant example. They can’t compete on a world scale and are in extreme economic trouble.
Except not every darn thing was made in Japan then. There are many times when I am actually trying to find something not made in China, and I can’t.
I’m embarrassed to admit that it took me a long time to realize why things were so much less expensive now than they used to be. In my non-economics-oriented mind, I just assumed that in this computer age everything was being more efficiently manufactured. Duh.
http://www.harborfreight.com/
From here?
Me too.
RIght here, on my desk, provided by my misguided employer is a pump jar of hand sanitizer - MADE IN CHINA!!! With all the recent scandals about the general level of filth in China, we have HAND SANITIZER made in China!! Now that is rich.
My son’s Scout pants are made in China. I had no choice on that one. :(
I hate to say it folks, but that's capitalism. Business owners will seek sources of labour and low production costs so as to maximise profits, and consumers will generally seek whatever is lower priced and reasonably good quality (which, to be fair, increasingly does NOT include "Made in China").
Some things just CAN’T be made here.........
We did not trade with China before Richard Nixon's historic trip to China. Perhaps she meant Taiwan aka Nationalist China......
Just because food says “produced in America” or Canada, unfortunately the food processors may use spices and other additives that come from China, which will not be reflected anywhere on the labeling. The only real solution to avoid it is to grown your own, or buy from local producers, and check your spice/additive purchases closely.
Lift your keyboard, mouse, etc...
As the person responsible for this post I am ashamed to admit that, as I read your reply, my wife was backing out of our driveway. She is now on her way to Wal-Mart to procure me a supply of SONY CD-RW’s. I grabbed an empty box and read “Made in Tiawan”. GUILTY as charged.
So true!
A story was posted here at FR a day or two ago about chinese weapons in Iraq killing our soldiers. Saddam Hussein was buying and using communications equipment from china that was banned under sanctions. The continue to screw us in the UN at every opportunity and they never miss a chance to deal with our enemies.
The problem’s not the Made in China stuff...the problem is that there are millions lining up to buy it. Open 2 TV stores side by side...one selling cheap Chinese TV’s and DVD players and the other selling American made only and guess which one goes out of business in 6 months. There’s a huge market for ‘Made in China’ and as long as it exists someone will work to meet the demand.
I am trying to avoid the Chinese garbage.
Exactly!
What used to be well made, US or Canadian brands,are now made in China. The names the same, the quality sucks.
Hubby just went out and bought an expensive Alpine stereo system for his truck. I asked, is it made in China? Sure as chit. It was. It is getting harder and harder to find things that are Not made in China. Sometimes we have no choice.
I’m fed up with the cheap crap made in China. The quality isn’t there. It’s cheap plastic. Breaks easy. I’ve gone through plugs for my Sirius radio. It’s made of cheap crap. And I am sick of it.
That’s why I had my U.S. flag hand-made by a friend.....couldn’t find one made in America at the time.
One thing I do is join a local freecycle group. Granted you may get something made in china but you don’t pay for it and nobody gets any taxes from the transaction. Yes someone had to initially buy it but it wasn’t me.
Chinese goods are ten cents cheaper! Export jobs, import guest workers, and print more money! We can all stay home every day and buy cheap stuff on credit!
In economics, "dumping" can refer to any kind of predatory pricing. However, the word is now generally used only in the context of international trade law, where dumping is defined as the act of a manufacturer in one country exporting a product to another country at a price which is either below the price it charges in its home market or is below its costs of production.
A standard technical definition of dumping is the act of charging a lower price for a good in a foreign market than one charges for the same good in a domestic market. This is often referred to as selling at less than "fair value." Under the WTO Agreement, dumping is condemned (but is not prohibited) if it causes or threatens to cause material injury to a domestic industry in the importing country
Harbor Freight has stores....... to go there is a wonderful experience. One must be very careful to singlemindedly buy only what you go for. The temptation is great.
Our trike company is listed on this website:
They *used* have a lot of trike manufacturers listed but removed them because most of them were just Lehman trike dealers who -assemble and install- trike kits that are *not* made in the USA.
To get around this “bias”, Lehman bought property in the US and established a “US headquarters”.
Lehman stocks were tanking so Harley bought rights to their trike kits and will be selling “Harley Davidson trikes” soon.
They’ll -still- not be made in the USA.
[much like most of the “Made In China” HD accessories]
Pitiful.
Unfortunately, we even have Freepers who could really care less about anything beyond their own lust for cheap goods.
Show them that Chinese weapons are killing our soldiers and they still don’t care. Instead they try to blame it on democrats.
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