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.
Corporations have no borders or loyalty, they go where they make the most money, period. Shareholders are located all around the globe.
As long as free market runs its course, I am all for made in USA.
What I am not for is the mercantilist model the Germans employ to protect big business, raising barriers to entry and choking out both small business and imports so consumers have no choice and pay more.
New Balance shoes are made in the US, priced competitively, and last forever.
And that’s the difference between free trade and free market; the former allows unfree markets to participate and unilaterally attack free markets via mercantilist and other unfree practices.
Unions spent 4 billion $ on political campaigns in the last 5 years or so. Yeah unions have influence nor power according to you?
Unions are a losing bet.
Even when Dems held the Senate, House, and POTUS they were unable to pass their sacred “card check” legislation.
That was their ONE HOPE of staying alive.
RTW legislation was just passed this year in Indiana and is getting attention in a lot of other states.
Long term, unions are toast.
Let them spend all the billions they want, the graph doesn’t lie.
You have a serious comprehension problem. I have done NOTHING with Obama. People like you who buy into this protectionist BS are killing the economy with ignorance. It is not 1820 anymore, take your head out of the sand and join the 21st century. If we do not compete globally, we will no longer be an economic power. If you cannot see that economies are inter-dependent these days there is nothing anyone who has a functioning brain can tell you to bring you to the side of reason.
If you want to beat China, let companies compete with them without the unions pulling them down. Of course, that isn’t what you want I am sure... what union do you slavishly pay dues to?
As far as not trading with them (China), where do you think Perestroika originated from? You know, the concept that helped end the Soviets. They had no choice but to enact it because their people got a taste of American goods and freedom. That is why we should trade with China.
I threw the ad-hominem out there because you did not offer one substantive refutation of my post. Only ignorant invective and uninformed points that may have been true 100 years ago, but now are as obsolete as “Buy American”.
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