Comments on: Photo Phinish: NOT Made In America?

By: Zelda Blander

Zelda Blander — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 14:38:04 +0000

I was on Twitter looking for shirts when I found a link to this blog, glad I stopped by!!!

By: theo.johnson

theo.johnson — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 20:07:40 +0000

Liz,

I’ve never thought of it from a wartime perspective.

By: Liz

Liz — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 01:26:32 +0000

Shame on you Theo…and on the 4th of July. Was Sam Walton a great American or did he sell his Americans down the river by encouraging them to buy garbage and believe it’s ok? People are laid off and the economy is getting tougher because they’ve been “advertised to” over the years to believe that what they were buying from China was a good product. We’ve learned that we can’t hand our children a toy and be secure in the knowledge that it’s not going to make them sick. Meanwhile companies like Marx toys, once made in West Virginia are gone due to cheap imports. I’m sure you had toys from them when you were a kid….if you’re old enough to remember well-made toys. Companies like that stopped production of toys to produce guns during wartime needed by our troops. Let see something like that happen today. Brings to mind the point as well that if America suffered a need for it’s manufacturers to pitch in and produce for a common effort, such as war time, it wouldn’t be possible. We’d have to call on China or Mexico and “Rosita the Riveter” to save our own butts.

By: theo.johnson

theo.johnson — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 20:54:39 +0000

You know Liz, I agree with you 100%. But that’s what capitalism is all about. As people get laid off and money gets tight it’s great Americans like Sam Walton that provide us with cheap overseas alternatives to buy. Made in the USA is a lost concept and unfortunately the country suffers because of it.

By: Liz

Liz — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:44:06 +0000

Listen people….Just because Wally World is “right there” that’s no reason to exchange your values as a good American for laziness. Hard working Americans are losing their jobs by the thousands every day because we’ve gone the easy way over the last 20 years. It’s time to focus on what’s best for us…not build China. China is growing it’s steel industry….our’s is all but gone. Redirect your efforts to self-preservation. That includes automobiles. If you buy what your friends and family manufacture, you keep them working, your local businesses open and your future and economy secure.

By: theo.johnson

theo.johnson — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 17:30:07 +0000

Liz, thanks for the advice. But it’s sooo much easier to go to Wally World (Walmart) and buy stuff. And they’re so cheap. I think that’s the hang up for most of us. Convenience.

I hope things will change. I’d be willing to pay a little more for certain products made in the U.S. But in today’s economy, the cheap, less quality items win out. That’s capitalism for you.

By: Liz

Liz — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 21:06:07 +0000

Bully Tools are made in America….nice tools for gardeners as well as landscape, roofing and flooring contractors. There are many websites that only carry items made in America…seek them out. Also, insist that your local stores; hardware, grocery, etc. carry products made in the U.S. The more you ask for it, the quicker the jobs will return to America.