Originally Posted By: Trav
Originally Posted By: JHZR2
We've enabled this. Congrats all.
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Every time you, me, Overkill and a few others complain about horror freight, Chinese junk, Walmart, etc we get hit will "its a global economy get use to it" and such tripe.
This mentality is hammering the USA into second world status at a rapid pace. No one want to control this Chinese take over of the economy. We have given them not only our money but our jobs.
Now McDonalds and other service workers complain because they cant support families on their pay check.
Now its come full circle, we cant afford our own products and many people are almost forced to buy their junk because its all they can afford.
Time to import tax Chinese goods into oblivion IMHO. What do we get instead, POTUS running around China in a friggin coolie suit.
I couldn't agree more.
I buy made in America red wing boots,in fact all of my footwear is red wing,from shoes to work boots and my slip ons,all made in America.
My nailers are hitachi,so made in Japan,my compressors are Honda engines and when the pumps finally die we get them re-ringed locally.
I will admit I've got chonda generators. I'd love to buy Hondas but quadruple the price just isn't do-able.
My sockets and wrenches are made in America. I can't afford new snap on so I cruise pawn shops for used pieces.
I ride a harley,so it's at least assembled in America(how sad is that. An American icon like harley reduced to assembled status).
So even though America is filled with people who have this to say about us
Originally Posted By: Gabe
Still better than Canada
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Y never seen anything except what the TV shows them I still believe in supporting American families even though it costs me more up front.
The saddest part about this is industry. America has sold almost all its industry overseas because as a business it costs less to produce goods.
So even if as a nation they wanted to its now fiscally impossible to regain a foothold as far as manufacturing is concerned.
Industry is what built America. People worked skilled positions,foundries were full steam ahead,machinists,skilled labour,they all had a place and position,work was everywhere.
So now what. What does America do now that the industrial sector has been neutered and auctioned.
And these retard environmentalists putting the brakes on fracking is another nail in the coffin. That "dumbumentary" gas land,which has been proven to be fabrications and misdirections has people,who just believed what they saw instead of actually researching themselves,screaming stop drilling,is just making it worse for the working class.
That film shows a homeowner lighting his tap water on fire. What the movie doesn't tell you is that same homeowner has had methane coming from his taps since he moved into his house,and it's not flammable due to the chemicals used in fracking,it's flammable due to the natural occurring methane in his well.
Now these people,uneducated,want to ban fracking altogether. Which is absolute nonsense.
Here's a cheap,easily acquired form of energy that can ease the strain on the American family,ease the strain on America as a whole as far as energy is concerned. It puts Americans to work. It helps the environment because it lessens the need for coal fired electricity,but because these uninformed environmentalists only see what's right in front of them and not the big picture(less coal burned for electricity)they hurt the entire nation.
Kinda like when the common man decided that cheaper was better,and in making that decision shut down the American industrial domination.
Being so shortsighted has already crippled the nation as far as industry is concerned,and it's happening again with this fracking ban.
There are simple solutions that can strengthen the American core yet uniformed,uneducated,biased opinions and fear mongering wins the day,and adds another piece of straw to an already overloaded camel.
The only industry America has left is prisons and the military.
But the typical American has what they wanted. Cheaper goods. Thank heavens,because when the only work to be had is Walmart and McDonald's the typical paycheque can't afford much else.
Looking back if someone had said" sure we can get stuff cheaper overseas but that will put Americans out of work,big time,and will,in time,cripple the nation as a whole" would you still buy those Chinese brake pads,or those pants etc,etc.
I am cheap bí freely admit it. But it's because I'm cheap that I look for value in the dollar spent.
For example. Work boots. My red wings cost 350 bucks a pair locally. Or I can buy an 80 dollar pair from Walmart.
My 350 dollar redwings last at least 8 years of working everyday. The 80 dollar pair lasts a year,a very uncomfortable,wet,stinky,foot fungus year.
So my cost per year is less than half when buying redwings,even though the cost up front is more,over time that cost keeps going down.
Some things,like my iPhone,iPad and my apple stuff is of course made in China. And I'll just have to accept that fact because if it wasn't for Apple I wouldn't even know how to email,call it a necessary evil,but where possible I try to spend my money supporting either the local economy,or the continental one
