Made In America Time for a Revolt!

[snakeoil24]

I recently bought 4 new pairs of jeans form a company call the American Jeans Company. The quality was excellent, it was mail order and made in Ohio even with US grown Cotton. i figured it was time to Revolt! When anyone knowingly has a tip on American made Products please post it here. The best solution to Ending Poverty is a Job that pays. Who makes tools here is a good example. Sears seems to have quit , but many companies like Channel Lock and others still produce products here let's be heard. A small ground swell is all that is needed.

 

[Cranky]

I would think that this thread should be in the 'anything goes' forum....

 

[YY1]

Yup, put it out where everyone can contribute.

 

[HEMI-ITIS]

I try to buy USA,but some thing just ain't made here anymore.
When I purchased my Simpson race suit,the suit was made here but the gloves & shoes were china.The helmut was USA.

 

[ws27]

Buy Red Wing boots. Just be careful, some are made in China. I just hope they are not moving all production there.

 

[Hemi Rebel]

There are websites dedicated to usa made products. It makes it easy to find all the different american made stuff in one place. One thing I do want to get is a pair of jeans fron prison blues. They are made by inmates in an oregon prison. They are not expensive really, and for USA made they are cheap.

 

[snakeoil24]

cranky can you move it I dont know how.

 

[clemul]

Great idea...I email companies that sell chinese crap and state my disgust with their chinese quality at premium prices. The old reliable American brands mean nothing. I just bought a set of Wagner 11 3/4" front brake rotors made in Oct of 1989. When compared to the crap chinese premium napa rotors the difference is obvious. The old wagners are heavier, have the reinforcing nubs on the back of rotor and are machined much nicer than anything I have seen lately. The Chinese have murdered American POW's in Korea, have admitted to holding prisoners from Korea and Vietnam and threaten us on multiple fronts. Buying American is a great idea, although it might be hard to find many items to list here...

 

[NJRR]

When people complain about Chinese crap and how American's lost the manufacturing jobs to the Chinese, I remind them of whose fault it partly is - THE PEOPLE WHO BUY ALL THE CHEAP CRAP !!!!! I own a True Value hardware store. For every 100 cheap Chinese tools I sell, I sell 1-2 American made ones. Same thing with paint brushes and rollers. People look at their pockets and even if they care, say screw it, nothing I can do to help the situation, so I might as well buy the cheap stuff if it does what I need it to do. Sad fact, but true.

 

[idrivemopar]

I also always try to buy made in America stuff, however, its not always better, here is a small example.

Then ones on the left are Made in America, the ones on the right, China, and they are not that good either.

 

[conv67bdere]

I use to buy Levi jeans, and now, even at the large discount stores, they'll run you $35 a pair.

Wranglers, on the other hand, are made in America, and you can find them all day long for about $15 a pair - and the quality is great !

So far, I think the Wranglers even hold up better than the Levis too.

 

[snakeoil24]

I also always try to buy made in America stuff, however, its not always better, here is a small example.

Then ones on the left are Made in America, the ones on the right, China, and they are not that good either.
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Your dice on the left are fuzzy dice as they should be the ones on the left are a knock off they just forgot the fuzzy.

 

[ws27]

I was just going to say that. They can't even get the fuzz on the fuzzy dice correct. LOL

 

[Chryco69]

Majority of Americans that I know that work in a factory, would make me want to by foreign. No one cares these days it seems. Plus foreign is cheaper and I am a poor American. Its not like it used to be.....
IMO

 

[Cranky]

Majority of Americans that I know that work in a factory, would make me want to by foreign. No one cares these days it seems. Plus foreign is cheaper and I am a poor American. Its not like it used to be.....
IMO

I worked in a refinery for 26 years as a machinist and the majority of my coworkers cared and did a good job. Maybe it was because the union didn't have a stranglehold on the company and were expected to work. Texas is a right to work state and I was always glad of that. Never went on strike and ALWAYS lobbied against it whenever the subject came up. I belonged to the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers for the whole time I was there. Before that, I belonged to the United Steel Workers and we had a no strike clause in our contract and that also worked out just fine.

 

[clemul]

When (not if due to geo-political situation) we go to war with china, we will surely regret strengthening our enemy. It is the politicians on both sides of the aisle in the pocket of internationalist shareholders and the communist chinese government that sold out American manufacturing.By selling at a loss and subsidizing manufacturing as well as monetary value manipulation the chinese have been quite successful. The chinese also hold a lot of American companies and it is a stated goal to buy more in key/strategic industries(funded in part by high interest on loans used in part to fund and expand the American welfare state, and to give billions to foreign countries like Isreal, Egypt, Iraq, etc,etc) ....soon all we will be fit for is a tourist spot, a source of natural resources and a laugh or two for the chinese with whom we fought two wars with already.

 

[mrkinger]

Hope you dont consider Canadian product foreign,i buy everything i can from Canada and the U.S.My last 3 cars came from Toledo Jeep plant in Ohio.I read labels and im willing to pay more to support our economys .This is my own personal war on the garbage comming into our countrys.

 

[1971 plymouth roadrunner]

Canada is not foreign enough to be foreign.

 

[Moparsmitty]

Canada is not foreign enough to be foreign.

Yeah, not enough slave labor/ sweatshops.

 

[Chryco69]

Pop the hood on your Chrysler it says Mitsubishi on the motor....