Originally Posted by SacDQ (Post 2004957)

Most military spending is for made in America equipment. Other than that not very much. Not even our food staples are from the USA. Next time you grocery shop read the labels. Supporting the weekend farmers market is the best place to still find USA PRODUCE

Originally Posted by merrymini (Post 2004764)

We should certainly make sure that medical products are controlled by us so another country cannot hold us hostage. Remember the antibiotics made in china to the tune of 90 percent? What if they wanted to withhold it during covid? Certain chips and other manufacturing items should not all be under the control of other countries. I try to buy American whenever possible and reasonable to do so. Let’s get back to work.

Originally Posted by GrumpyOldMan (Post 2004911)

Yes I did, and the administrators helped by making it a 2 week mandatory go stand in the corner.

Originally Posted by jimjamuser (Post 2005043)

Yes, good post!

Originally Posted by JMintzer (Post 2005263)

Only 2 weeks? Piker! :a040::a040::a040:

Originally Posted by GrumpyOldMan (Post 2005269)

In the case of food, local grown is better in many ways.

For one, things like "Fresh Apples" are typically harvested and warehoused for up to 6 to 9 months. They are then almost completely lacking in the nutrients they had when harvested.

Shipping food in from literally 10's of thousands of miles takes time and they have to be harvest early to not ripen before they hit the stores.

If is can be grown locally, it should be.

Originally Posted by jdulej (Post 2004999)

I have always been amazed and confused by the reaction "normal" people have to any proposal to somehow make the 1% (really more like the .1%) pay their fair share. After all, they have the most to lose and get the most benefit from the government. Who wields the most power over congress and the pres - you and me or Jeff Bezos, the Kardashians, etc?
As an example - when AOC (yes, that AOC) suggested adding an additional tax bracket that kicked in only AFTER income passed $50,000,000 for a year (fifty million) you would have thought the world was ending. We have 7 brackets thanks to the Ryan/Trump tax give away, why does adding one more mean the end of America?

Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby (Post 2005001)

You should be willing to pay everyone a wage that allows them to afford to pay whatever price American manufacturers want to charge.

Originally Posted by jimjamuser (Post 2005010)

It is not a matter of people NOT being willing to work. They have just had their ambition to better the next generation beaten out of them. The ladders for upward mobility have been burned up by things like systemic elimination of Unions, the artificial difficulty for some groups to become homeowners, constant competition from legal and illegal immigrants and a "greed is good" mantra instead of a "teamwork and a rising tide lifts ALL boats approach. There are MANY other reasons like, what are all the lobbyists REALLY contributing to society? Maybe they need to be boiled in oil? (Just joking!)
How about limiting the size of farms and ranches? How about turning the clock of tax policy back to the 1950s that people today agree were superior in many ways Sociologically (not Scientifically).
Made in America was a big part of the healthy attitudes and social equality enjoyed by Americans in the 1950s. Also, foreign countries had not YET infected Americans with LETHAL drugs like beginning in the (about) the 1980s and continuing and getting worse today.

Originally Posted by jimjamuser (Post 2005014)

I disagree with the content of that post.

Originally Posted by jimjamuser (Post 2005038)

There is something that I always prefer to buy American and even LOCALLY American and that is, any local produce because it tastes better and has more vitamins and nutrients in it than produce from further away. And less wasted oil to support Saudi Arabia. I also like to support the small farmer rather than the big farmer or rancher. Big farms are usually using excessive fertilizer instead of rotating crops and wasting more water, fuel oil. and other resources than small farms. Small farms benefit larger numbers of families than big farms and ranches. In Ca. large pecan farms EVEN get greater priority for WATER than people. That IS some seriously inverted priorities. And that shows the problems caused by the POWER of big farms and their lobbyists.

Originally Posted by jimjamuser (Post 2005041)

Not necessarily #1. Switzerland has greater income and wealth per person. And Many, many countries have a greater "quality of Life" than the US! We rank around 25th.

Originally Posted by JMintzer (Post 2005341)

THE 50'S?

You mean when agriculture was LESS efficient?

When tax policies allowed the 1% to pay LESS that they are now?

Be careful what you wish for...

Originally Posted by JMintzer (Post 2005344)

More and more of your preferred Craftsman tools are being made in China and other parts of Asia...

Originally Posted by GrumpyOldMan (Post 2005269)

In the case of food, local grown is better in many ways.

For one, things like "Fresh Apples" are typically harvested and warehoused for up to 6 to 9 months. They are then almost completely lacking in the nutrients they had when harvested.

Shipping food in from literally 10's of thousands of miles takes time and they have to be harvest early to not ripen before they hit the stores.

If is can be grown locally, it should be.