MADE IN USA: Please read if you're American.

MADE IN USA

That's something that seems harder and harder to find on a product everyday. I'm not sure about you, but I'm sick of seeing "Made in China", "Made in Vietnam", "Made in Taiwan" on products that get brought into my home. It seems though, the problem is that people don't look or care to look where the product they are buying is made, but SHOULDN'T they?? After all, it's what keeps Americans working, American families fed, and the country less reliant on foreign trade. Not to mention, a beneficial side effect of buying American is the quality of the product vastly improves almost always. Why wouldn't you want to reap the benefits of buying American? Here are a few links that help people identify caompanies making products in the U.S. americansworking.com madeinamericaforever.com madeinusa.org I'm not completely innocent from buying foreign, but I am making it a vow to buy American whenever possible. Sure it may cost you a few extra bucks at times, but everytime you buy something made in the U.S. of A, it helps keep an American job here where it should be.

 

For the record, I posted this in another topic on this forum. I did this because on some of the links that I listed in the above post list hunting/shooting companies that make products in the USA, some being as specific as to name archery companies making products here. I hope it doesn't get removed from this one, as it is the most popular topic on this forum. I feel that it's a pretty important subject also.

 

I love the spirit of the idea but it's not very practical a lot of the time. I buy everything I can that's made in America (could now be spelled Amerika) but some things are hard to find made here and others are triple priced for similar quality. Then there's a lot of problem with false claims of made in america when the product is just repackaged here etc...

I blame this on the ignorant politicians (all inclusive) over the years creating a trade deficit and choking american business to death.

 

No doubt that the free trade act has rendered us dependent on other countries, but the best thing we can do is buy American as much as we can. The links i posted above (sorry they are not clickable links) make it easy to identify the companies that are keeping products and jobs in the U.S., so I don't see much excuses there. How many times are we on the internet in a week? All you have to do is type a few letters and click, and bam, you are at a web site that does the leg work for you. I also understand that "MADE IN USA" doesn't mean it is exclusively in the U.S. May contain some foreign materials or assembly), but it is dam well better than seeing "Made in China" on the label. The federal trade commission doesn't have as tight of standards as they should on labeling, but if you care enough, you can do a little extra research to remove doubt. it's very disappointing seeing a neutral reply to this thread right off the bat.

 

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Amen!

I live in SE Michigan. You may have heard that we make cars here. Til the day he died, if you drove a foreign car, my father would not let you park it in his driveway. You could however, park at the end of the road. I grew up on 10 acres of property, the house was in the back.

My dad was a very mild mannered guy, but as he would say "If you don't care enough about your neighbor who's making american cars, I certainly don't care if you walk to my house from the end of the road, just don't be surprised if the door is locked when you get here".

That was his favorite saying.

When my sisters husband showed up for the first time ever for a family get together, he pulled right up to the house in a honda. When my dad noticed, he said "Who's honda is that in my driveway?"

"Mine"

"Do me a favor and take that thing to the end of the road would ya'?"

He started laughing....(nervously)

Me and my brother looked up from our dinner in unison and said "That's not a joke"

He traded it in shortly after....But he's still an idiot.

Better yet....My dad never worked for any of the Big 3. He just cared about his neighbors and America.

 

Heart warming story BUT many great "foriegn" cars are now made in the USA in non union shops at a great price. Toyota, Honda, BMW, ect. I always drove silverados, I own 4 now and will be buying F-150's as Ford refused Obama bailout $$$ unlike the others. Look how well Detroit is doing? Complete dumpster fire.

 

You're absolutely right. Then the profits from those vehicles is sent out of our country back to their corporate headquarters in that respective country.

I don't come here to argue. I shouldn't have posted, I'll just back out now rather than argue.

 

Vehicles are sort of a wishy washy subject on this matter. Either they are a "foreign auto maker" (honda, toyota, etc) building cars in the U.S., or they are "American made" car companies (ford, chevrolet, etc), assembling the cars out of country. There doesn't seem to be a clear win either way. The only reason that foreign auto makers have assembly plants here are to avoid the import tax they would be charged if they brought them over already assembled.

 

I am really sort of puzzled at the responses so far. I guess I didn't expect such negative comments on this subject. Seems like everyone is either content buying whatever from wherever, or acting like Eeyore, "No sense in buying American now. It's all over. Might as well go ahead and buy Chinese... No sense trying to fight it..."

 

Sure, the government (gubmint to some) may make it easier to buy Chinese products, but that's no reason to give up on buying American. The only way it's going to stop is if "WE" do it. The government sure isn't going to do anything to help.

 

He obviously meant that his dad wanted people to buy american, like buying a Chevrolet, back when they were truly american made. They just don't happen to be so american NOWADAYS.

 

I think a lot of the problem with "buying American", is what is American? Anyone can slap a made in America sticker on anything or have one small piece that's made in America and call it that. Most Americans just assume people put that label on an item to get people like you (no offense whatsoever, seriously) to buy it.

Now I'm not trying to strike some chord, just stating opinions based on observations, but I think people have a really bad taste in their mouths from unions. People look at them as money hungry corporations who could care less about the product and person. Again, not saying I think that, just that people are seeing it as a one way road to bankruptcy.

Last year, one of the automotive cities here in Indiana was home to a struggling GM plant. This was a big news story as it was an old plant and one of the last big plants in that city. Basically, it came down to the non-skilled employees having to take a pay cut. The cut was going to be somewhere around $18-$20 / hour. The workers and their families went on the news saying it would be impossible to live on that kind of money. This very quickly turned the rest of the public against them. This was at a time many families were living on scraps, trying to find work, and these people were saying they would rather shut the factory down, than live on $18 / hour, on unskilled labor.

Sorry to be so wordy. But let's be honest about this. I want to buy only american. But this day and age, it's nearly impossible, and most people don't have time to shop around to find it, or trust it when they do.

 

I tried to buy all US products when outfitting my bow and hunting gear. Try to find rubber hunting boots or a safety harness made in the USA and I think you will find it pretty much impossible.

 

It's a good debate, not necessarily and arguement. This is actually a very valid point used when debating the auto manufacturers.

Unfortunately it's a lesser of 2 evils: 1 set of companies are based in this country, the other employs a HUGE number of Americans and uses more American parts than the other.

I actually work for a Japanese company. It's a nice feeling of stability and they promote US suppliers. It's much cheaper to use a US supplier than it is overseas, in some cases. We buy tens of thousands of pounds of steel off two suppliers. One here in the US, the other in Germany. It's cheaper and better quality to buy in Germany. Not only that, if there's a problem, it's taken care of immediately. The US supplier sthe opposite.

 

I buy from people that appreciate me and give me value for my dollar. My truck just spend over a week at the Chevy dealer and $1,600 later I get it home and notice its leaking oil like crazy and they stole my center caps on my wheels and switched them for some old beat up ones

I love this country and what they've done and do for the world but I work hard for my money and I'll not over pay for a lesser product because an American made it. I also don't pull that on my customers, I just make a better products to keep their business.

And are leftist government is destroying small businesses for their social agenda and to keep them in nice government jobs.

But that's me:-/

 

One of my friend father -in-law has the same policy. He didnt enforce it though when I drove over in my Toyota Sienna (made in Indiana). He is such a hipocrite though. He drives a Pontiac Vibe that is a Toyota Matrix with different badging. I totally agree that we should buy American whenever possible, but I get upset when someone tells me I am driving a foreign car and that I should buy American when my car is made in America by American workers and their Chevy is made in Canada or Mexico. Chrysler is a foreign company people.

 

So who's to blame? Are we blaming the Americans that buy foreign made products? Or should we be blaming the "American Corporations" that hire foreign labor/products to sell in our country? I'm not Anti-American but I think it's a silly argument to blame the people who buy foreign products. They buy what's available and affordable. Not because it's Anti-American. I support American made and also Wisconsin Made. However I do support great companies who take care of their customers even if that's foreign. IMHO if you do want to blame people for this issue, blame the American CEO/ American Corporations who hire or set up factories in China, Indonesia, Etc. If they hired American factories to make their products would you then be happy?

I put my little sense in here and I'm done.

 

Yeah, end of the day we can't spend our family's money/savings on pumping up bloated American corporations at the expense of our loved one
s. I think american company's need to stop feeding on our patriotism and just build a better product and give better service.

I will say also that I hold American to higher standards then I do other country's.