We did at one time take pride in the ability to make almost everything we need. Then we decided to go for the lowest cost or highest cost item as either a way to survive or to show how wonderful we were as a person. So we drive Mercedes and BMW, while eschewing Chubby and Frod.
Sam Walton got himself rich selling American to Americans. Now his progeny are reaping in treasures by selling chinese to americans who can no longer buy the goods they need made by their fellow citizens. Even the goobermint wants to outsource the items it needs on the battle field for cheapo crap. We are repatriating many of our manufacturing jobs. Than can only be a good thing. Maybe we can encourage more entrepreneurs to build American. clay On Jun 11, 2013, at 1:29 PM, Curt Raymond wrote: > I won't debate anything else you said but the quote below is just not true. > US manufacturing output is second only to China and that change is relatively > recent: > http://www.aei-ideas.org/2012/12/charts-of-the-day-world-manufacturing-output-2011/ > > We don't make the things we used to make years ago but we still make a lot. > In fact I've started to look for the "Made In the USA" label as a lifestyle > change. If you aren't you don't have a right to bitch. > > Its not always possible of course, my hiking boots were made in Italy, but my > socks were made in the USA, my Redwing workboots were also made in the USA. I > fell into the trap of buying the cheapest whatever for a long time, its going > to take time to turn myself around. Meanwhile I think there are too many > people that bemoan the loss of American jobs while buying made in China junk. > > -Curt > Bought a "Made in the USA" radiator hose today but was unable to do the same > for the brake parts. > > Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 16:10:07 -0400 > From: "Scott Ritchey" <ritche...@nc.rr.com> > To: "'Mercedes Discussion List'" <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: Starving Youngsters: was 44 years OT > Message-ID: <6F15C78E4B4747A1852341BD419066B2@ScottHPPC> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > <snip> > > little manufacturing remains > > <snip> > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
