I got this e-mail forward -- very interesting! I can vouch for a lot of what he says, especially the part about hose attachments being cheaper at a local mom & pop hardware store, and being Made in USA to boot. I've seen this for many other items.


Made in the USA -
   Very Encouraging

READ ALL THE WAY TO THE BOTTOM! LOTS OF GOOD INFO
   HERE!
 
Costco sells Goodyear wiper blades for almost half the
   price that you will pay on the outside and they are made
in the U.S.A. Read
   and do the following.

Unfortunately our politicians and top CEO's (GE
   etc) have pushed for trade to China and Mexico for years
so Americans are now
   out of work. Did You know that there is no electric coffee
maker made in the
   US and that The only kitchen appliances made in the US is
Viking?

I DIDN'T KNOW HALLMARK CARDS WERE MADE IN  CHINA ! That is also why I
   don't buy cards at Hallmark anymore, They are Made in
China and are more
   expensive!
I buy them at Dollar Tree - 50 cents each and made in
   USA
Check the number of items for sale by The Dollar Tree that are made in America.  You will be pleasantly surprised.

I have Been looking at the blenders available on the
Internet.
   Kitchen Aid is MADE IN The  US . Top of my list
   already...

Yesterday I was in Wal Mart looking for a wastebasket. I
   found some made
in  China for $6.99. I didn't want to pay that much
so
   I asked the lady if they had any others. She took me to
another department And
   they had some at $2.50 made in  USA . They are just
as good. Same As a
   kitchen rug I needed. I had to look, but I found some made
in the  USA -
   what a concept! - and they were $3.00 cheaper.

We are being brainwashed
   to believe that everything that comes from China and
Mexico is cheaper. Not
   so.

I was in Lowe's the other day and just out of curiosity,
I looked
   At the hose attachments. They were all made in China . The
next day I
   was
In Ace Hardware and just for the heck of it I checked the
hose
   attachments there. They were made in  USA  
..

Start looking,
   people . . ....In our current economic situation, every
Little thing
We buy
   or do affects someone else - most often, their
job.

My grandson likes
   Hershey's candy. I noticed, though, that it is Now
Marked "made in
    Mexico ." I don't buy it anymore.

My favorite toothpaste Colgate
   is made in  Mexico .. now I have switched to
Crest.

You have to
   read the labels on everything.

This past weekend I was at Kroger . . .
   I needed 60W light bulbs and Bounce dryer sheets I was in
the light bulb
   aisle, And right next to the GE brand I
Normally buy -- was an off-brand
   labeled, "Everyday Value." I picked up both
types of bulbs and compared them:
   they were the same except for the price . . . the GE bulbs
cost more than the
   Everyday Value Brand, but the thing that surprised me the
most was the GE was
   Made in MEXICO
And the Everyday Value brand was made in - you guessed it.
   the  USA at a company in Cleveland , Ohio .

It's way past time to
   start finding and buying products you use Every Day that
are made right
   here.

So, on to the next Aisle: Bounce Dryer Sheets... Yep, you
guessed
   it, Bounce cost more money and is made in Canada . The
Everyday Value Brand
   cost Less, and was MADE IN THE  USA ! I did laundry
yesterday AND the
   dryer sheets performed just like the Bounce Free I have
been using for years,
   at almost half the price.

MY CHALLENGE TO YOU IS to start reading the
   labels when you shop for everyday things and see what you
can find that is
   made in the USA .  The job you save may be your own
or your
   neighbor's!

If you accept the challenge, pass this on to OTHERS in your
   address Book so we can ALL start buying American, one
light bulb at a
   time!
Stop buying from overseas companies - you're sending the
jobs there.
   
(We should have awakened a decade ago....)


Let's get with the
   program and help our fellow Americans
keep their jobs and create more jobs
   here in the USA ..

I passed this on .. .. . will you???

If you care
   about American workers, you will pass it
on.

I used to try to buy American--I previously would not have considered buying a foreign car.  But I am not so into buying American anymore.  I see buying American as supporting the labor unions which were largely responsible for putting Obama in office.

The value of the dollar has far more to do with the fact that America convinced the Arabs to only accept dollars for oil, thus making it the world's reserve currency, than any balance of trade issues.

If oil was traded freely and priced in each currency the demand for dollars would drop and the value of the dollar with it.

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I used to try to buy American--I previously would not have considered buying a foreign car.  But I am not so into buying American anymore.  I see buying American as supporting the labor unions which were largely responsible for putting Obama in office.

If you do not buy American you destroy the value of the dollar and hurt the American worker. Besides if one supports Big Business one supports the GOP, who are largely responsible for the foreign policy mess these days.

What about the Chinese worker?

If there was a very Catholic country where 95 percent of the population went to Church and they had kept the old mass, outlawed abortion and divorce etc,; would you buy their products or still put the American worker first?

What about the Chinese worker?

If there was a very Catholic country where 95 percent of the population went to Church and they had kept the old mass, outlawed abortion and divorce etc,; would you buy their products or still put the American worker first?

I am not worried about everyone everywhere at all times, which leads to internationalism but simply nationalism. The global market you are speaking of emerged from the ideas of highly anti-nationalist and anti-religious liberals of the 1700's and 1800's.

You however only care about the bottom line and your god, money, and care nothing for your own nation and race.

When a nation refuses to make things anymore it leads to a destruction of that nation's currency because of a loss of revenue.

The US do make things.  All sorts of things.

They made Google.  And eBay.

They just make less domestic appliances.

So what?

France doesn't make its own search engine either.  Neither does Britain.  We use an American one called Google that pays very few taxes over here and lots of corp tax in the US so you are exporting advertising and taking British jobs in that particular case.

We also don't have our own Internet auction site.  We use a US one.

That said, I have never bought American cheese, nor am I likely to.  I bought 50 dollars of candies recently to bring home for my kids and they were such horrible garbage I had to throw them away.  Just sugar and E numbers and they tasted disgusting.  I would sooner eat Russian chocolate.

If you cannot make clothes and televisions cheaply and efficiently so that people want to buy them then make something else.  We don't all have to make our own stuff.  Just make something useful that people want to buy.

Who had ever heard of Australian wine 50 years ago?  The concept was so silly that Monty Python made a comedy sketch from it.  Now they make some of the best wine in the world.

Things change. Deal with it.

Us British used to do a roaring trade with the Chinese in opium.

Didn't last though.