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Spend a moment and look for the "Made in USA" label.

techs

techs

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And before you go to the big box store see if you can buy it from a locally owned business.

Just a reminder.
 
techs said:
And before you go to the big box store see if you can buy it from a locally owned business.

Just a reminder.
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You do realize that purchasing overpriced crap is the main reason so many American manufacturers are out of business?
If its gonna be shit, it needs to be cheap. And America cant do that. Not with salaries being what they are for the average union worker.
 
DrunkenSano said:
Who is going to cover the higher cost of buying local?
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It's not always higher. I run a local business and make a point to match or beat the best prices I can find on the internet on everything I can. Of course there are categories of retail stores where this may not be as feasible.

Edit: I'm not as hung up on the "Made in USA" label though. There are some products that are worth the price premium and just happen to be made in the USA. There are others that are more expensive and not as good as products that are made overseas. Sad to say it, but "Made in the USA" is no longer necessarily a guarantee of greater quality. We need to work out the inefficiencies in our manufacturing system that make this so, because it really shouldn't work out that way.
 
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shortylickens said:
You do realize that purchasing overpriced crap is the main reason so many American manufacturers are out of business?
If its gonna be shit, it needs to be cheap. And America cant do that. Not with salaries being what they are for the average union worker.
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This, we are so webbed up economically in issues from many different angles, that if we try to slowly fix it from any of these angles, the structure could fall flat on its face.
 
I wonder how many posts on this forum are made while being paid to "work" at another job? There's your Made in USA label right there. Opinionated internet users "working" to make "money" which they take to buy "stuff". The various combos of the quoted words range from not wanting to work and make a lot of money while acquiring stuff as cheap as possible, to much less drastic ones.
 
shortylickens said:
You do realize that purchasing overpriced crap is the main reason so many American manufacturers are out of business?
If its gonna be shit, it needs to be cheap. And America cant do that. Not with salaries being what they are for the average union worker.
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Maybe instead of frivolously buying lots of disposable dollar store shit, we should be buying fewer high quality items, and making them last.
 
Why should I subsidize unskilled American labor for the same product?

I'll pay for what things are worth. It's called capitalism, look it up.
 
As much as I'd love to buy American all the time, it just gets too expensive. Bring on the cheap chinese plastic!
 
Having worked for a company that outright said "our products are known for quality and durability (ie lasting 30 years), but these days that isn't a good market strategy for company longevity, so now we make them so that they break in 5-7 years", I have no faith in the "made in the USA" label. That's right, they wanted them to break so people will buy new ones - but still hoping they buy their product based off "quality".

Made in the USA means jack these days because most corporations are just money hungry, quick buck companies with no care for quality. Another words I go for what is cheap.
 
bigrash said:
As much as I'd love to buy American all the time, it just gets too expensive. Bring on the cheap chinese plastic!
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Expensive relative to what?

Do I buy a product for $35 I have to replace every year or do I buy a product for $100 which lasts five years?
 
ImpulsE69 said:
Having worked for a company that outright said "our products are known for quality and durability (ie lasting 30 years), but these days that isn't a good market strategy for company longevity, so now we make them so that they break in 5-7 years", I have no faith in the "made in the USA" label. That's right, they wanted them to break so people will buy new ones - but still hoping they buy their product based off "quality".

Made in the USA means jack these days because most corporations are just money hungry, quick buck companies with no care for quality. Another words I go for what is cheap.
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Your singular experience does not equate to all US made goods being crap.

Why didn't you speak out at your company and tell them they were wrong, tell them that they lost their integrity?
 
Vic Vega said:
Why didn't you speak out at your company and tell them they were wrong, tell them that they lost their integrity?
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If it doesn't get you fired for not being a "team player", you'll be socially chastized (better word I can't remember). Yay for conformity!


It's hard enough to find stuff Made in Canada. I can't even think of where to buy Made in the USA.
 
I wonder how many people realize that in other countries they do buy stuff made in their country over imported stuff.
 
I think it is all relative and depends on the person/situation.

For example, I am not hairy (only need to shave twice a week or so), therefore I buy the cheap $1 for 10 disposable razor. But if a person is hairy, it could be better for him to buy a Gillette razor.

I will buy the best bang (return value) for the buck, NOT the cheapest. I will try to look for a product that is made in the USA but I would not pay extra for it just because the label was there.
 
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Why didn't you speak out at your company and tell them they were wrong, tell them that they lost their integrity?

If it doesn't get you fired for not being a "team player", you'll be socially chastized (better word I can't remember). Yay for conformity!

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What he said. Persons gotta work! ;p Besides that company ran itself into the ground got bought out by another company who took the name moved it to Mexico and makes even worse products :/ -- PS the CEO's made a killing during all of this.

As for the first part of your statement -- it shouldn't even need to be said that it doesn't represent 100% across the board, but when you look at the news of corruption, stories from other people, personal experience and the overall general "bad human nature" that seems to prevail in the corporate world how can you say it doesn't represent the majority? Monopolies and fast cash grabs are the name of the game these days.
 
Vic Vega said:
Expensive relative to what?

Do I buy a product for $35 I have to replace every year or do I buy a product for $100 which lasts five years?
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http://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/index.php/Sam_Vimes_Theory_of_Economic_Injustice

Always appropriate.

I will continue to purchase locally when possible, and more importantly, recommend locally owned business to friends and clients. But Walmart is still the only place in town I can get a 14 pound bag of the one brand of dry cat food that doesn't make my cat's poo smell like rotting corpses.
 
ImpulsE69 said:
As for the first part of your statement -- it shouldn't even need to be said that it doesn't represent 100% across the board, but when you look at the news of corruption, stories from other people, personal experience and the overall general "bad human nature" that seems to prevail in the corporate world how can you say it doesn't represent the majority? Monopolies and fast cash grabs are the name of the game these days.
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Just have to look at stock market and housing bubbles for evidence of that: speculation on things people know little to nothing about in hopes of getting rich quickly or "not missing out". This speculation is then catalysed by equally or more greedy people with a bit more knowldedge taking advantage of those with less.
 
thats easy. Just go out and buy a Toyota from your local Toyota dealership. Most likely its Made in the USA. Rather than those american car companies who make their cars in Mexico.
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