America needs jobs, Americans buy products.

I came across this yesterday while surfing the web. I asked the person I thought had wrote it for permission to re-post it, but they had told me it was passed on to them. Do you remember the late 80's...Maybe not. In the late 80's there was a really big push for the BUY American movement. There was a need for it. The Japanese were building thing cheaper and better that the Americans. Well , some things anyway. In the early 80's Harley Davidson was bought out by AMF, and they were changing a lot of the parts to Japanese parts. It was not until the late 80's that the employees of Harley Davidson banded together and bought the company back, that they started steering back to a quality oriented corporation.

Please do not take this wrong. I am not against Japanese items, as the Japanese build some of the best things in the world. What I do know though, in the event the Japanese were slipping fiscally, they would have enough pride in their own people to buy their own goods.

China has outright said they no longer want to be simply the manufacturing arm pit for the Americans. Other countries shop from their homelands. Its no wonder we can not balance trade over seas. The people of other nations seem to have a better understanding of keeping their children employed.






Hey,this is something we were trying to tell people years ago!



One Light Bulb at a Time

A physics teacher in high school once told the students that while one
grasshopper on the railroad tracks wouldn't slow a train very much, a
billion of them would. With that thought in mind, read the following,
obviously written by a good American.

I was in Lowes 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. Let's do this!

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... 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.

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 . . . )

. . help our fellow Americans keep their jobs and create more jobs here in
the USA!