Why buy American made
products?
Because every time you buy a product that is made in a country that pays its
workers less than an American company, you bring the standard of living down
for all of us. Day by day you see good paying American jobs being lost to low
wage countries, and these job are being replaced by lower paying jobs in the
service industry ( fast food restaurants, Wal-Mart etc.) Americans really
don't seem to care as long as their job is safe. So many jobs in our
country have been lost forever. McDonalds is now the largest employer in
the USA - this is sad. Our Automobile industry is being taken over by foreigners
and we just sit back and take it. If Americans demanded American made
products, the manufacturers would return the jobs that have been stolen from
us.
Manufacturing plants are only moved out of the country because we let
them. When G.M. and Ford moved assembly plants to Mexico the U.S. Consumer
continued to buy the vehicles assembled in these plants. If we had
refused to buy those vehicles, They would have closed those plants down and
moved production back to the U.S. Instead they are moving even more
production out of the country. And the shame is that a Vehicle
assembled in Mexico cost the same as the ones assembled in the USA.
J.C. Penny sells a dress shirt out of the catalog that is made in Korea
or the U.S.A. and the both cost the same, even though the labor cost of the
one made in Korea is about 5% of the one made in the USA. The companies that
are making products in these low wage counties are enjoying larger profits
at the expense of the American worker.
The VCR was developed by NASA and we don't even make a VCR in the
U.S. The commercial ship building industry in our country is
almost dead, the clothing industry is gone, our footwear industry is gone, our
TV manufacturing industry is gone, and the list goes on and on. If
we keep this up where will our Children work?
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