Some of you may have seen this. I have no idea of the date. However it is food for thought and maybe time for some action I copied it off FB this PM Diane Sawyer's special report was very good. They removed ALL items from a typical, middle class family's home that were not made in the USA. There was hardly anything left besides the kitchen sink. Literally. During the special they showed truckloads of items, USA made, being brought in to replace everything and talked about how to find these items and the difference in price etc.. It was interesting that Diane said if every American spent just $64 more than normal on USA made items for one year, it would create something like 200,000 new jobs. When buying food at Walmart, often on the label it will say MADE IN CHINA or PRC. For example “Our Family” brand of mandarin oranges say on the label “Made In China” I was shocked for a few more cents I could buy the Liberty Gold brand or the Dole brand made in California. look on the bottom of every product you buy, and if it says 'Made in China ' or 'PRC' (and that now includes Hong Kong), simply choose another product. Think about this: If 200 million Americans each refuse to buy just $20 of Chinese goods, that's a billion dollar trade imbalance resolved in our favor, fast!!! Most of the people who have been reading about this matter are planning on implementing this NOW. Send this to everybody you know. Let's show them that we are Americans and Nobody can take us for granted. If we can live without cheap Chinese goods in our lives. Buy American made first!
I'm 100% on board with this idea. I try to seek out made in USA products when I can and I'd say I spend much more than $64 per year!
So, do we refuse to purchase the applesauce that the apples were grown in this country, shipped bulk to PRC to be turned into lovely bottles of applesauce and shipped back ? How about the myriad of products similarly treated ? How about cars whose components are often sourced from around the world ? There's an awful lot of grey area when it comes to 'Made In America". Do we all want to drive K-cars again ? Probably not, although I liked mine. Globalists are going to condemn patriots as domestic terrorists these days. For which I care not one whit, so I buy American Made when I can. But I'm not doing without either. Sorry.
Quoted just so I could give you another "like" I have been doing my part on this recently (when possible) And good to know on the mandarin oranges...we haven't been able to find any the were made here...
So I’m not saying boycott or reject every single thing from there. BUT, I do go out of my way to seek products made here.
I've wondered why someone hasn't started a 'Made in the USA' store/stores and just sell everything that's made in the US? Be it, grocery, clothing, etc. Seems like it could be a gold mine to me. Lots of people can be too lazy to look where everything they buy is made (me included).
Just bought new toenails for the Ferd. Thought about saving a few bucks and buying knockoff copies, but went with my tried and true BFG’s. ‘Murica (like a dumbazz I took the pic before the driver rolled the 4th one from the truck)
Klipsch?? Sweet!!! 4 Fortes here, from the late 80's. Plus a Klipsch center speaker and sound bar. They all sound like they were just unpacked.
WOOOOO..................... for a second I thought you were driving one of those "FORD" 3 wheel tricycles !!!!!!
Some people are the type to cringe over this line of thinking. For them it has the classic undertones of nationalism and bigotry. They see global trade as mutually beneficial for everyone, so what's the problem outside of recent supply chain issues and a few billion dead trees from invasive insects? Without diving too deep down that rabbit hole, there is a very good reason to buy domestic goods wherever possible/practical. If you take an honest look at the sweatshops overseas, it's hard not to come to the conclusion that buying Made In The USA is more compassionate toward humanity. Workers here by and large are not treated like indentured servants or slaves. We have so many regulations put in place to protect our workforce, organized labor (although not as prevalent as in years past) has helped strengthen employee's rights/benefits, and if at any time an employee feels they are getting shafted they can talk to their employer or seek employment elsewhere. Such is the beauty of free market capitalism in spite of its "evils". Here it benefits companies to do the right thing, which attracts more workers. That's not the case overseas where people are treated more like citizen cattle, forced to work extremely long hours/weeks, under oftentimes unsafe conditions. Their employer is most likely run by the "system" so it would do no good to leave a job only to go work for another arm of that same system. These are the things I think of before I reach for that cheap trinket in the store because it's easy.
Spent a good part of the morning putting together a light fixture my wife got from wayfair cost over a hundred bucks. The hardware is so soft it strips before the piece is secure. The instructions used letters parts when the parts themselves were numbered all 112 of the parts…for a light fixture. I’ll have to get some decent nuts to finish it up. Then my son asked me to help him with a lego set he got for xmas. Not lego but a knockoff. Bucket with over 1000 pieces that will build a dozen vehicles. The pieces didn’t fit well together and there was the bare minimum of connections to build. So you try to push one piece on and the whole thing crumbles. Especially if you are a 6yo with out some finesse. Several times I almost threw the whole shebang in the can. thank you china…not!
I've been going with USA/CAN/MEX made as much as possible for a few years now but sometimes the wallet has to bend towards China. My Brother laser printer costs around $450 Canadian to replace all four color toner bars with ones made by Brother. I can by four made in China for $100. They aren't quite as good and don't last as long but they are superior in the long run if you only look at the money saved. If the Brother brand was $50 more I'd pay for that, but not $350 more.
I used to work at a Japanese owned distributor for Brother and I have nothing bad to say about any of their products. Like you’d expect, a lot goes into the engineering side. But like over here, a TON of Japanese companies utilize China to cut costs. They’ll design things in Japan, only to outsource the production to China/Taiwan. The problem isn’t endemic to the West.
