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well I know it is important but it is almost impossible
ReplyDeletelike over here made in germany just try to find one is hard enough
oh lots of products carry the lable but when you research them they really are not hard and sad
So hard to find American made products anymore....
ReplyDeleteI just don't understand why everyone is selling out to foreign countries.
Although I try to buy American, it's almost impossible to find American made products so I buy whatever I need to buy no matter where it comes from, but I will do without rather than buy any food products from China. I think if everyone was willing to pay higher prices more companies might make products here. Companies want to make a really big profit and customers want to buy something at a really good price (cheap), so I don't think that's going to happen anytime soon.
ReplyDeleteDid y'all click on the link?
ReplyDeleteIt takes you to pages upon pages of things MADE IN THE USA
From the article you can find many links to made in USA.
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There are TONS of daily use articles that come from the US.
For clothing, please make sure that the cotton used is actually US Cotton.
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Yes, I did click on the links and I knew about those sites. Those sites are fine, but they don't have things that I'm talking about. Computers, cameras, printers, batteries, etc. As I said, I do try to buy American, but it's not always possible.
ReplyDeleteRemember when you could buy a Zenith tv? They made them in America. They were a good product, too.
ReplyDeleteOr, a short ways down the road, an American car like the Chevy Vega? Also made in America.
What was it that happened in the interim?
Now everyone is complaining that we got beat at our own game of making high quality products for a reasonable price. Have we all forgotten that "Made In Japan", once a joke indicating a cheap, shoddily made product, cheap to buy and quicker to fall apart, became, at some point, a phrase that indicated a product that was actually superior to it's American-made counterpart?
Sometime during my teens, I'd say, came the transition. While the Japanese were working out ways to develop high-quality products using less labor-intensive methods, the heads of our corporate ships were asleep at their helms, secure in their fantasy worlds wherein once you're "king of the mountain" you can casually pull out a lawn chair and order a pina colada.
Meanwhile, while all this American corporate lethargy was happening, It slowly seeped into the consciousness of American consumers that something made by Sony was far superior in every way to something made by General Electric. And darned if Toyotas hadn't become a whole lot more reliable than Pintos, Vegas and Pacers.
(I just sold my '83 Honda, which averaged nearly 50 MPG and, although never parked indoors had yet to develop rust. Last year it got clobbered by a 1,000 lb tree branch that simply made one fender bulge, but had it been an American car from that era, what was left of the car would have fit into a medium sized Hefty bag.)
Sure, the Unions did a lot of good things over the years, which might not have included having become run by the mob at some point; and there's no doubt that we're still in need of collective bargaining unless we want to go back to the days of the Feudal Lords or the conditions of 1840's London.
But I think at some point our unions became a little too headstrong, a little too cocky and far too short-sighted to compete in a global market place
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Children of Detroit's union-waged workers brag about how the unions provided 3 generations of family workers with an extremely nice life-style.
Sure they did.. Paying assembly line workers $35 an hour - and is that adjusted for 35 years of inflation? - will do that, but it won't insure that they do a quality job. Nor will it ensure that their corporate leaders will remain dedicated to the idea of turning out the highest quality products.
It did work for quite a while. It worked until higher quality goods began arriving from Japan and elsewhere. The corporate heads of GM, Ford and American Motors were still doing more than well right up until we almost lost them forever. Right up until they were all called into the White House, flying their platinum-coated corporate jets right up on the White House lawn while puffing their fat cigars. Right until then it worked well, for them at least; they couldn't even see the house of cards in which they existed and which came darn close to condemning them to a death far quicker than the death of a million paper cuts.
The Right wingers said "let them fail", and maybe they deserved to. But instead we, the American people, bailed them out and - unlike in the case of Wall St.- it not only woke them up, it had the effect of lighting a fire under the cushy stuffed chairs of the pampered stuffed shirts. They not only woke up, they came back with a burning passion, and are now setting the pace for cutting edge technology with the highest quality automobiles. Ones, in fact, that are up to the standards of those that any other country can throw at us, be it Japan, China, France (although I saw a hell of a nice little Fiat only yesterday) or anywhere else.
America's Big Three is making a comeback, and if our car companies can do it, there's no reason why the rest of
I do know it is not always possible-
ReplyDeleteJust that too many don't even turn a can over at the supermarket- They just look at the price and toss it in their cart.
Then they have the audacity to ask what is wrong with America?, right?
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Hang on- I have a very appropriate picture that I borrowed from that linked page above-
Must go find it.
Well, damn! if I didn't forget to link it above.
ReplyDeleteMy apologies
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Some of those that see "Distributed by" and think it is good enough. Clearly it is NOT.
We need to be SO on top of this crap...
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Here's the link for this picture-
http://rmkkfans.blogspot.com/2011/12/i-want-my-pumpkin-made-in-america.html
You are so right, and so very intelligent too.
ReplyDeleteOddly enough, when we began importing Fiat's, I can remember my father saying that 'perhaps' that would be the only foreign piece of s**t he would ever buy.
Know that he never did though. hehehe
Simply put, YOU ROCK!
I do agree. (And not only because there is no way i could even begin to reply to your entire comment either).
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ReplyDeleteMy Uncle worked down near Chicago... Wait- Or was that RCA?
(Sorry, too long ago to recall).
Great article here about collective bargaining.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.aflcio.org/Blog/Political-Action-Legislation/Wisconsin-What-s-So-Important-About-Collective-Bargaining
There was indeed a major Zenith plant in Chicago. Don't remember there ever having been an RCA. Lou Gianni, a neighbor who's garage my dad rented a space from, and who's son Gary is now a famous cartoonist/artist, worked there his whole life, I think. He came in handy too when out Zenith - the first one with "Space Command" - an early time of remote that worked on high frequency chimes that set off the dogs for miles - would go on the blink.
ReplyDeleteNice article at the other end of that link. Unions are needed, I think, at least in the midst of humanity's current state of collective consciousness.
ReplyDeleteThere's always the problem that 'power tends to corrupt, etc... and it does, wherever it may raise it's head. (Even in the smallest of political unit's, the family.) But that's also the reason that makes collective bargaining so important.
Small children being whipped with belts by infuriated, inebriated, power-mad parents have limited options, except perhaps to hide in the closet.
We're not children anymore.
ReplyDeletevERY VERY COOL!
wHAT A HISTORY TOO!
Damned caps lock anyway...
***Stomps foot.
ReplyDelete*****Slams door.
*******Screams behind that closed door.
Then ponders what the heck happened to Jimmy Hoffa...
Yes. Unions are necessary
Seems many here forget that unions started in Wisconsin.
On the 5th of May 1886, seven people were murdered by the state of Wisconsin’s militia under the orders of Governor Jeremiah Rusk to disperse a gathering of striking workers under the banner:
Eight Hours for Work, Eight Hours for Rest, Eight Hours for What We Will.
Unions lie at the heart of the civil rights movement.
Unions also make up much of Wisconsin, seeing as there are seven places named Union in Wisconsin. (I took that from a news article). hehehe The next one too
[Walker] exempted the predominantly male police and firefighters unions from his knife--or dagger. Kind of sissy, don't you think?
Walker knew he would lose up against them, simple as that, because these predominantly male unions would have roared even louder and they plain would not put up with his lowdown dealings. The howls from men who work as "first responders" would have excited even more sympathy from the public. Make no mistake, this is no fair fight. In another sign that he's not acting in good faith, Walker has refused to accept state employee concessions on retirement and health care costs. [See photos of the Wisconsin protests.] http://www.usnews.com/news/photos/protests-in-madison-wisconsin
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Simply said, Walker is a criminal of the worst kind.
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I think he's worse than that. There must be a stronger word. Hitler was more than just a criminal. But whatever that word is, I can't think of it.
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ReplyDeleteLet me know when you think of it.
To call him a dictator is too kind.
Megalomaniac is what Hitler was.
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