I try to buy American whenever I can. I was at WalMart yesterday buying a hand scrub brush and a pail. The offerings near the bushes were molded plastic pails with plastic handles. $2 or less. CHINA
The other pail I remember seeing was Rubber Maid over in Auto section. It was just under $8 with a metal handle with plastic handgrab.
I bought the Rubber Maid. I was hoping until just now that it was American made. BUT! I now read the label and see it says “assembled in America, made with Chinese, Italian and American parts”......just what in the hell is that?
Stamped/bent metal holder from Italy affixed to an extruded Chinese bucket, topped off by a label printed in America?
I’m not unhappy with the quality and I’m confident the pail will not fail with a broken handle if I overload it, but just-damn...
American businesses have for an entire generation, sold off American businesses.
An entire generation.
To a gigantic country with five times our population, and a closed system which takes, and does not give back.
Bring back American manufacturing.
Bring back American jobs.
Now.
I one was at a Wal*Mart looking for an ordinary crank style portable can opener. The cheap ones were made in China... and a virtually identical Swing-A-Way model was American made. I opted to support American jobs.
I used to be able to do this with socks. Wigwam black work socks in Wal*mart were available if you looked hard enough that were Made in U.S.A., but that ended... I had to change style and brand, and the store I bought socks from. New Balance had a black sock that Sears sold that was USA... but the last time I was in Sears the same product had a sticker over the top of the UPC that said they are now “Hechoed” en Mexico.