Should we make a concerted effort to NOT buy from China?

In answer to the question - yes, I think we should.

I try whenever possible but it's not easy; there are lots companies that used to manufacture in the UK but no longer do - Dyson vacuum cleaners and Hotpoint washing machines spring to mind. I think it is misleading when companies advertise themselves as 'British' or mention 'British engineering' etc. but don't actually manufacture anything here. There is a popular clothes brand over here with the slogan, 'fabulously British' but upon closer inspection, nearly everything they sell is made in China or India.

 

I can say this, my nephew is an engineer. He works for a small company in New Hampshire. Spent more time in China than home for 3 years. They have the patent on building the crystals that make up solar panels of a certain type ( beyond me what he’s talking about). They build the machines and sold them to a company in China to produce these crystals. High temps, high pressure, spins at a really high speed and some other stuff. My question is if you own the market on these crystals why would you sell machines overseas and teach them how to operate them just to make competition for yourself?

 

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

 

Ebay has a filter for that...sorta anyways...I'll hafta look again as far as "made in the USA"...

 

It use to be "made in Taiwan" that you used to see all the time...then when Walmart came to town, in the 80's I would guess, I started to notice more and more "made in China" stuff there...

 

Wal Mart & Amazon are two biggest outlets for Chinese stuff. I don't buy from Wal Mart at all & only non Chinese from Amazon. My tools are Snap On & they are USA made & worth the money.

 

Read an article a few months ago that described trumps distaste for globalism and it laid out many of his goals and accomplishments away from it. Regionalism is what this article described as a new upcoming era. I can see it happening in the MCA agreement and how trump has been working with Mexico on a couple fronts . If Mexico could do what China has done on the industrial front why not help a neighbor who has no military intentions of taking over the world.

 

History repeats itself. Over and over.

Remembering back to when I was a child, there would be the old guys....(you know-adults) complaining of very much the same thing only it was directed against Japan. It was less than two decades since WWII.

Don't buy anything made in Japan; Japan manufactures nothing but junk; and even as far as it doesn't matter that they lost the war, they are taking over the world with all of their cheap manufacturing!

Same kind of comments we are hearing and making today.

Backwoods Savage will remember this time period and concerted effort quite well also.

 

Backwoods Savage will also remember people saying dont buy anything made in the south after the civil war

 

Ouch!

 

this came from harbor freight ,it may be the first in their new made in usa line

 

Hey...Brookpark Rd...that's only about 45 minutes from here...a lot closer than China!

 

I think Sav said it well, basically we need to reduce consumption, and this will largely take care of itself.

In Cuba (NOT holding it up as a positive example, just saying), they still keep many 1950's vintage cars running. We think it is old at a decade, and the cars we have today are much better built, despite rumors to the contrary.

We consider it "normal" to upgrade our phone regularly, when the older one still works.

We buy crap (fromwhatever source/country) rather than good stuff (from whatever source/country) that will last.

Yes, I remember when Japanese stuff was crap, then they were going to beat us, then they fades. Right now we are are in the China stuff is crap -> they are going to beat us transition.

Reduce consumption, buy used when you can, buy quality that will last. The rest will work out.

 

That's still going on...foreign companies and individuals are buying up property and businesses as fast as ever...I was shocked to hear how much farm land has been bought up!

 

15 minutes for me!!