One Light Bulb at a Time-Buy USA
One Light Bulb at a Time-Buy USA
Check this out. I can verify this because I was in Lowe's the other day for some reason and just for the heck of it I was looking 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.
In our current economic situation, every little thing we buy or do affects someone else - even their job. So, after reading this email, I think this lady is on the right track. Let's get behind her!
My grandson likes Hershey's candy. I noticed, though, that it is marked made in Mexico now. I do not buy it any more. 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 the stats - they were the same except for the price The GE bulbs were more money than the Everyday Value brand but the thing that surprised me the most was the fact that GE was made in MEXICO and the Everyday Value brand was made in - get ready for this - the USA in a company in Cleveland , Ohio.
So throw out the myth that you cannot find products you use every day that are made right here.
So on to another aisle - Bounce Dryer Sheets . . . yep, you guessed it, Bounce cost more money and is made in Canada. The Everyday Value brand was less money and MADE IN THE USA! I did laundry yesterday and the dryer sheets performed just like the Bounce Free I have been using for years and 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 neighbors!
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!
(We should have awakened a decade ago . . . . . ... )
Let's get with the program . . . help our fellow Americans keep their jobs and create more jobs here in the U.S.A.
Made in the USA
http://www.madeinusa.org/
pass it on!
It's every consumer for himself, lads!
The trade deficit is a problem created by the US and the Fed, not by the American consumer. Ultimately, the American voter is to blame. Your "job" as a consumer is to buy the product that gives you the best combination of cost and quality for your personal needs. That's how a free market is supposed to work. Every dollar is a vote.
Free trade is good. We should adopt it in this country. My concern with light bulbs is not where they are manufactured, but the fact that the US wants to tell me what kinds I can buy.
Our overlords are on the case. Obama recently implemented a big tariff on Chinese tires. The cost of all tires in the US will go up. To Obama, your money was well-spent, further securing the union vote.
Can I copy
your letter here and post it to all my email recipients ? What you said hit the nail on the head ? Basically stop being mindless idiots and do little things that done collectively can make a huge difference.
Just one last kick in the nuts, then a final deathblow
Sure
That is actually a story that was sent to me, but it makes the point regardless.
I go further
than simply "buy American", although I will pick the American made product if it is a good product, and pay more for it, if necessary.
However, I also express my opinions by avoiding products made by companies, even US companies, who openly support or are part of NWO, liberal, and Obama causes
I"m sure that there are some that I don't know about, or that I've missed, but I make decisions whenever possible to not financially support companies who work for my demise.
Buying American or from more freedom-oriented sources is NOT protectionism.
ONLY the gov't can be involved in "protectionism" because only the gov't make laws.
Buying what you want, from companies that you'd rather support is good practice.
Good idea!
Maybe we need to start a black list of anit-American companies. What's the old saying - The customer is always right!
One thing that should enter into the lightbulb discussion---
Congress passed a bill a few years back that by a certain date (maybe 2012?) ALL of our light bulbs had to be The low energy, mercury contaminated light bulbs! And none of them are made in this country---I am thinking at the time they were all made in CHINA!
Guess what? I would bet, if you checked it out, that one or more of the congressmen have an interest in the Light Bulb Company In China Producing These Light bulbs.
Awhile back I watched a documentary about a mine being closed down for fake 'environmental' reasons in California. The mine produced some necessary mineral used to make computer chips, and it was the only mine in the U.S. that produced this.
The documentary disclosed that one of the RICH California congresswomen was instrumental in closing the U.S. mine, and her husband had an interest in the company in China (or Russia?) that we now have to IMPORT ths mineral from!
We are being FLEECED by our Legislators!
Don't forget the story about Donald Rumsfeld and the antidote for FLU! They are plotting and thinking ahead all the time---We are NOT.
Another China/Mining story to enhance your point
Gold mining in Nevada releases native Mercury. Most mines, if not all, are required to capture the mercury before it is released in to the atmosphere.
Some mines do a better job than others. But all are left with this by-product of Gold mining. Guess what they do with the leftovers? You guessed it, they sell it to china. I'd guess that it makes it into those CFL's, and is sold back to us one bulb at a time.
Why can't they either eliminate the use of this type of bulb. Or, is that's not feasible yet, why can't Gold mines also produce these bulbs locally?
"I don't endorse anything they say"
~Ron Paul On the 911 Truth movement.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGyhlNY0y1k
Can you just imagine the tentacles of relatives and friends of
congressmen that could be uncovered in this?
The whole CFL bulb thing is a manufactured environmental crisis "we must conserve energy because of shortage, global warming, etc." SO-----Congress passes a law that MANDATES changing to CFL bulbs by 2012, (I am not sure that this is the correct date) THEN the bulbs cannot be made in this country because of the risk of mercury contamination, so our mercury is shipped to China, where the workers, including children, are exposed to the contamination to make CFL lightbulbs for U.S.!
How many U.S. congresscritters have family or friends with 'business interests' in China?
Thundercloud, they will not eliminate these CFL bulbs, (even though a broken bulb in your home requires environmental cleanup), they have passed a law that we all must use them!!
Try reading the labels on food in the supermarket...
You will be shocked at where a lot of it comes from. Check the bottom of cans - you will find some marked "Product of China". I definitely don't want to eat China's produce... Check frozen foods - in particular, vegetables. It is hard to read on the packaging (which is done deliberately) but most of it is from outside the USA, including China. Then check the labels on the fresh produce. Back in New York I found most fresh produce was from foreign countries. Publix has a lot more grown in USA. To me, this is a serious food safety issue. I would rather buy American food, preferably organic. I also view it as a national security issue. If we are progressively not growing our own food and relying on imports, we have made ourselves extremely vulnerable.
Try to buy fish from America that isn't processed in China
The Chinese apparently can come fish in our waters and sell our own fish to us, but we can't fish in our own waters.
"What was taken from the boomers, it ain't there, what was taken from the X'ers it ain't there, what is being taken from their great, great, great squared grandchildren it ain't there. Some generation just has to have the guts to quit passing it on." Me
*May the only ones to touch your junk, be the ones you want to touch your junk.*
Speaking of fish-------
I have been an activist for Country Of Origin Labeling for food, and one thing about fish from China that is absolutely appalling:
In China they suspend chicken pens above their fish ponds where they raise the farmed fish. So the fish eat the chicken poo, and chickens (and fish) raised in conditions like this have to be fed antibiotics all the time. Less than one tenth of 1% of our imported food is actually inspected, so the excess antibiotics is very seldom caught and turned back.
If it is turned back, it is re-labeled and sent again because it will probably make it through the next time. Because of the lack of actual inspection, the imports may not have the actual labeled product in the box, because the likelihood of them getting caught is one tenth of 1%!!
That is why I will not eat tilapia
they are fed feces, they are used to clean the tanks after stripped bass are harvested. http://videos.howstuffworks.com/discovery/30832-dirty-jobs-s...
"What was taken from the boomers, it ain't there, what was taken from the X'ers it ain't there, what is being taken from their great, great, great squared grandchildren it ain't there. Some generation just has to have the guts to quit passing it on." Me
*May the only ones to touch your junk, be the ones you want to touch your junk.*
A farmer friend told me that all of the shrimp that
comes from China is fed on sewage! Needless to say I don't do shrimp anymore!
If I had the money I'd love to open a store
MADE IN THE USA
You're free to spend your money as you see fit.
I'll go for the lower price and don't care too much where a product comes from.
I'm not into the cult of "Buy American" which is typical union protectionism. The better quality and priced product always wins.
We all know the free market argument and that's the ideal.
Back in the 80's Japan dominated the manufacturing market. When I was a kid the words, "made in Japan" meant the product was junk....and it really was.
The part I love to read is "Made in USA" (from imported parts).
Do you care if children are
making the stuff you buy?
exactly . . .
it's hard to be awake; it's easier to dream--
thank you--
it's hard to be awake; it's easier to dream--
We went to my parents house last Sat.
my Dad was almost giddy about a new frying pan he had bought that afternoon. He pushed it in our faces smiling acting like it was the coolest thing he had ever seen. "Look where it was made!!"
The frying pan, he bought at Wal-mart of all places, was made in the USA. Even the little rubber spatula that came with it was made in the USA.
"What was taken from the boomers, it ain't there, what was taken from the X'ers it ain't there, what is being taken from their great, great, great squared grandchildren it ain't there. Some generation just has to have the guts to quit passing it on." Me
*May the only ones to touch your junk, be the ones you want to touch your junk.*
As the US FRN slips in actual value
It'll become more economical to manufacture things here in the USA.
I avoid Chinese made goods for other reasons. Sketchy safety in manufacturing, reliability issues, and the human rights abuses committed by the people reaping the bulk of the rewards of foreign trade among them.
I do support buying in the US though, and particularly buying local whenever possible.
I am waiting to see his face tonight
I bought him a shotgun for his birthday (made in America) I hope he gets as excited about that as he did about his frying pan.
I read about a year ago about a furniture company in North Carolina moving their manufacturing back here because of high shipping cost, this was back when oil was so high.
"What was taken from the boomers, it ain't there, what was taken from the X'ers it ain't there, what is being taken from their great, great, great squared grandchildren it ain't there. Some generation just has to have the guts to quit passing it on." Me
*May the only ones to touch your junk, be the ones you want to touch your junk.*
A bump
for buying "Made in the USA" products...
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Funny you should say light bulb..
Sometimes there are reasons you can't buy American. I have read that the reason you can't buy cfl light bulbs made in the U.S. is because their mercury levels exceed U.S. production limits. Cfl light bulb labels refer you to sites which explain how to dispose of these babies. They are supposed to be treated as hazardous waste and if they break there's a whole involved process to follow - just for one broken light bulb. Improper disposal releases mercury into our environment. From what I can gather most people have no idea about this, which translates into a lot of mercury.
It's amazing what you can learn from a label.
My father always used to do this
He would always check labels for where stuff was made, and buy US.
Having grown up in the great depression, he was always very frugal with his money. But I remember one time he needed a new pair of work boots, and went to great lengths to track down a pair of Wolverines somewhere. Of course there was no internet, and we didn't have a car, so there was a lot of calling around, then taking the bus to some obscure location. The boots cost over $100 because they were made in the U.S. That was way more expensive than you could get a pair of boots at the discount store downtown.
As a kid, I remember thinking, "is it really that important?"
Ha. He was old school, a man of principles. I didn't get it at the time, but of course I do now.
Good idea!
A couple years ago I decided to buy American for all Christmas gifts. It was REALLY hard. Some gift stores I could only find a few things in the whole store that were made in USA. But yes, they do exist! It is possible.
Under "buy American", might also have to start checking the ownership of store chains to make sure to only shop at American-owned stores and businesses too.
Me too!
Here is a great place to buy beautiful Made in USA toys:
http://www.atoygarden.com/
I have been doing that, too!
And it is HARD, because I have a large family, many gifts to purchase! I am an avid label reader, and I am particularly concerned about how much of our food is imported while our own U.S. farmers and ranchers are being forced out of business by government regulation and low prices to the farmers.
Many of us did awaken
http://www.madeinusa.org/
http://www.americansworking.com/
Yes, let's get with the program.
WE ARE GOING TO WIN!
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I second that idea.
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