[Golfingnut]

I am thrilled to see chatter and recommendations to buy American made products. You may pay a few cents more, but you will be giving an American a job. Importing products and exporting dollars to pay for it has a very ugly ending.

[rockyisle]

I purchased Rada knives for my family this year. All made in America and they are fabulous knives.
Official Rada Cutlery Site

[Golfingnut]

Originally Posted by rockyisle

I purchased Rada knives for my family this year. All made in America and they are fabulous knives.
Official Rada Cutlery Site

As a retired military man, I salute you.

[buggyone]

Originally Posted by Golfingnut

I am thrilled to see chatter and recommendations to buy American made products. You may pay a few cents more, but you will be giving an American a job. Importing products and exporting dollars to pay for it has a very ugly ending.

I would be willing to bet an ice-cold Yeungling that there are more items foreign made in the Golfingnut household and garage than American made.

People may talk the talk but unintensonally not walk the walk.

Care to do an item by item walkthrough?

[Golfingnut]

Originally Posted by buggyone

I would be willing to bet an ice-cold Yeungling that there are more items foreign made in the Golfingnut household and garage than American made.

People may talk the talk but unintensonally not walk the walk.

Care to do an item by item walkthrough?

Ford car

Craftsman tools

golf cart from Georgia

Arians Lawn mower Wisconsin.

[Leo G.]

If we're going to stop the bleeding, we first need to have more incentives in place to bring manufacturing back to the USA. The end customer may pay only a few cents more for the few USA made products they purchase.

The USA company/manufacture however that operates overseas makes that few cents on every product they pump out and sell in the USA. We live in a world dominated by the almighty dollar. American greed and where it takes us in the coming years will be and has been our own doing.

To this day, I still receive e-mails from overseas telling me how they can manufacture my product so much cheaper. I made the decision to be "American Made" early on because I realize the true results long term by going abroad.

I think most of us do realize the consequences but our own greed gets the better of us. Everyone else is doing it mentality, so I must too, to compete for every dollar and or save a dollar in my own pocket.

I'm afraid the chatter we hear is nothing more than lip service for the most part. It improves ratings and gets us all fired up but little else as far as I can see. $$$ out wins doing the right thing, most of the time, as our past demonstrates.

[Golfingnut]

Originally Posted by Leo G.

If we're going to stop the bleeding, we first need to have more incentives in place to bring manufacturing back to the USA. The end customer may pay only a few cents more for the few USA made products they purchase.

The USA company/manufacture however that operates overseas makes that few cents on every product they pump out and sell in the USA. We live in a world dominated by the almighty dollar. American greed and where it takes us in the coming years will be and has been our own doing.

To this day, I still receive e-mails from overseas telling me how they can manufacture my product so much cheaper. I made the decision to be "American Made" early on because I realize the true results long term by going abroad.

I think most of us do realize the consequences but our own greed gets the better of us. Everyone else is doing it mentality, so I must too, to compete for every dollar and or save a dollar in my own pocket.

I'm afraid the chatter we hear is nothing more than lip service for the most part. It improves ratings and gets us all fired up but little else as far as I can see. $$$ out wins doing the right thing, most of the time, as our past demonstrates.

history will prove you to be the hero and big business going overseas for more profit, the greedy UN-American

[Dr Winston O Boogie jr]

Originally Posted by Golfingnut

Ford car

Craftsman tools

golf cart from Georgia

I am wondering how many parts of that Ford car and US made golf cart are being imported from overseas. In addition, some Fords are made in Mexico and Canada. Toyotas are made in several locations in the US so the "give an American a job" argument has less and less merit. Plenty of Americans have jobs in America working for Toyota, Nissan and a lot of other foreign based companies.

We now have American companies opening manufacturing plants in foreign countries and foreign companies opening plants in the States. so it's become a bit difficult to discern which is which. We're living in a much more global community today. It's not as simple as the old days of us against them.

American manufacturers, including and especially the car companies are responsible for much of this problem. For a lot of years, they produced inferior higher costing products and they allowed foreign companies to surpass them. People enjoyed these foreign products and developed loyalties for them. Now many of the American manufacturers are trying to play catch up and go begging to the government to help them out of a mess that they created. True, American cars have gotten better recently, but they got lazy and sat back while they watched Toyota fly past them in many different ways. And I don't think that many of the American cars today still can't compete with the quality of there foreign counterparts.

[marianne237]

Sometimes it is hard not to purchase either USA made or even USA owned. DH enjoys ham...so on occasion we purchase ham slices. We went to the new Sweetbay store and since ham was on my list, obviously, I looked for it there. All their ham products are packaged Smithfield. That is now a brand owned by the Chinese. We won't buy Smithfield any longer, and Paula Deen had nothing to do with it.
We all need to be consumer smart. It's only one small product, but it's my personal protest.

[Golfingnut]

We must keep trying. More import taxes would help to level the playing field for manufacturing here.

[red tail]

don't shop in bargain stores and expect high end products.its as simple as that. go to fresh market and pay more and get more!

[gustavo]

Originally Posted by Golfingnut

We must keep trying. More import taxes would help to level the playing field for manufacturing here.

Not fair, if American companies can't compete without bribing the refs then they will/should not survive. Natural law.

[Golfingnut]

Originally Posted by gustavo

Not fair, if American companies can't compete without bribing the refs then they will/should not survive. Natural law.

I pray you don't mean that.

[TheVillageChicken]

Originally Posted by Golfingnut

Ford car

Craftsman tools

golf cart from Georgia

Arians Lawn mower Wisconsin.

Must be some old Craftsman tools.

[Golfingnut]

Originally Posted by TheVillageChicken

Must be some old Craftsman tools.

Like me, most of them are very old. If I looked at my power tools, most if not all are made overseas.