I am not the author, I am passing this along without verifying the
cites, so it may be bogus... But i did get it in an email so it must
have come from the Internet so it must be true...

Carla

ONE AT A TIME
A physics teacher in high school once told the students that while one
grasshopper on the railroad tracks wouldn't slow a train very much, but
a billion of them would. With that thought in mind, read the following
written by a citizen who's concerned about America's jobs:

This probably sounds crazy, but just yesterday I was in Wal Mart looking
for a wastebasket. I found some made in China for $6.99. I didn't want
to pay that much so I asked the lady if they had any others.. She took
me to another department and they had some at $2.50 made in USA .. They
are just as good. Same as a kitchen rug I needed. I had to look, but I
found some made in the USA and they were $3.00 cheaper. We are being
brain washed that everything that comes from China and Mexico is
cheaper. Not so. That is also why I don't buy cards at Hallmark anymore.
They are made in China and are expensive. I buy them at Dollar
Tree....50 cents each and made in USA .

My favorite toothpaste was Colgate is made in Mexico . Now I have
switched to Crest. You have to read the labels on everything. Good
idea ... One light bulb at a time.

Check this out. I can verify this because I was in Lowe's the other day
for some reason and just for the heck of it I was looking at the hose
attachments. They were all made in China .The next day I was in Ace
Hardware and just for the heck of it I checked the hose attachments
there. They were made in USA . Start looking ... In our current economic
situation, every little thing we buy or do affects someone else - even
their job. So, after reading this email, I think this lady is on the
right track. Let's get behind her!

My grandson likes Hershey's candy. I noticed, though, that it is marked
made in Mexico now. I do not buy it any more..

This past weekend I was at Kroger. I needed 60W light bulbs and Bounce
dryer sheets. I was in the light bulb aisle, and right next to the GE
brand I normally buy was an off-brand labeled, "Everyday Value." I
picked up both types of bulbs and compared the stats they were the same
except for the price. The GE bulbs were more money than the Everyday
Value brand but the thing that surprised me the most was the fact that
GE was made in MEXICO and the Everyday Value brand was made in - get
ready for this - the USA in a company in Cleveland , Ohio .

So throw out the myth that you cannot find products you use every day
that are made right here....

So on to another aisle - Bounce Dryer Sheets... Yep, you guessed it,
Bounce cost more money and is made in Canada . The Everyday Value brand
was less money and MADE IN THE USA! I did laundry yesterday and the
dryer sheets performed just like the Bounce Free I have been using for
years and at almost half the price!

My challenge to you is to start reading the labels when you shop for
everyday things and see what you can find that is made in the USA - the
job you save may be your own or your neighbors!

If you accept the challenge, pass this on to others in your address
book so we can all start buying American, one light bulb at a time! Stop
buying from overseas companies! (We should have awakened a decade
ago....) Let's get with the program and help our fellow Americans keep
their jobs and create more jobs here in the USA .

"Carla Fong" wrote in message
...
I am not the author, I am passing this along without verifying the cites,
so it may be bogus... But i did get it in an email so it must have come
from the Internet so it must be true...

Carla

ONE AT A TIME
A physics teacher in high school once told the students that while one
grasshopper on the railroad tracks wouldn't slow a train very much, but a
billion of them would. With that thought in mind, read the following
written by a citizen who's concerned about America's jobs:

This probably sounds crazy, but just yesterday I was in Wal Mart looking
for a wastebasket. I found some made in China for $6.99. I didn't want to
pay that much so I asked the lady if they had any others.. She took me to
another department and they had some at $2.50 made in USA .. They are just
as good. Same as a kitchen rug I needed. I had to look, but I found some
made in the USA and they were $3.00 cheaper. We are being brain washed
that everything that comes from China and Mexico is cheaper. Not so. That
is also why I don't buy cards at Hallmark anymore. They are made in China
and are expensive. I buy them at Dollar Tree....50 cents each and made in
USA .

My favorite toothpaste was Colgate is made in Mexico . Now I have
switched to Crest. You have to read the labels on everything. Good idea
... One light bulb at a time.

Check this out. I can verify this because I was in Lowe's the other day
for some reason and just for the heck of it I was looking at the hose
attachments. They were all made in China .The next day I was in Ace
Hardware and just for the heck of it I checked the hose attachments there.
They were made in USA . Start looking ... In our current economic
situation, every little thing we buy or do affects someone else - even
their job. So, after reading this email, I think this lady is on the right
track. Let's get behind her!

My grandson likes Hershey's candy. I noticed, though, that it is marked
made in Mexico now. I do not buy it any more..

This past weekend I was at Kroger. I needed 60W light bulbs and Bounce
dryer sheets. I was in the light bulb aisle, and right next to the GE
brand I normally buy was an off-brand labeled, "Everyday Value." I picked
up both types of bulbs and compared the stats they were the same except
for the price. The GE bulbs were more money than the Everyday Value brand
but the thing that surprised me the most was the fact that GE was made in
MEXICO and the Everyday Value brand was made in - get ready for this - the
USA in a company in Cleveland , Ohio .

So throw out the myth that you cannot find products you use every day that
are made right here....

So on to another aisle - Bounce Dryer Sheets... Yep, you guessed it,
Bounce cost more money and is made in Canada . The Everyday Value brand
was less money and MADE IN THE USA! I did laundry yesterday and the dryer
sheets performed just like the Bounce Free I have been using for years and
at almost half the price!

My challenge to you is to start reading the labels when you shop for
everyday things and see what you can find that is made in the USA - the
job you save may be your own or your neighbors!

If you accept the challenge, pass this on to others in your address book
so we can all start buying American, one light bulb at a time! Stop buying
from overseas companies! (We should have awakened a decade ago....) Let's
get with the program and help our fellow Americans keep their jobs and
create more jobs here in the USA .


Nice post, kiddo.

--

On 10/6/2011 12:55 AM, Carla Fong wrote:

....
My grandson likes Hershey's candy. I noticed, though, that it is marked
made in Mexico now. I do not buy it any more..


Kids are kids but once. Telling them YOUR opinion is fine, but I tend to
feel that burdening their youth with your own political preferences at
every turn is exceptionally bad parenting.

In particular, this entire "save the earth" bull**** pushed in US grade
schools is frighteningly baseless. It is a scam, to gain social control,
and nothing more.


Whenever anyone tells you to "save the earth"--think of Al Gore telling
YOU to make sacrifices in everything you want, while he is holding his
Nobel Prize in one hand and his $12,000 monthly utility bill in the
other. Think of his FOUR children standing beside him, and don't think
of his wife, as they're currently separated.


This past weekend I was at Kroger. I needed 60W light bulbs and Bounce
dryer sheets. I was in the light bulb aisle, and right next to the GE
brand I normally buy was an off-brand labeled, "Everyday Value." I
picked up both types of bulbs and compared the stats they were the same
except for the price. The GE bulbs were more money than the Everyday
Value brand but the thing that surprised me the most was the fact that
GE was made in MEXICO and the Everyday Value brand was made in - get
ready for this - the USA in a company in Cleveland , Ohio .


A story just a few weeks ago noted the last major US light bulb factory
was closing. 'Major' meaning ~200 people.

So throw out the myth that you cannot find products you use every day
that are made right here....

This chain-letter is rather missing the point (though the US still is
doing pretty good in the chain-letter business!).

The point was not to hold on to a minimum-wage job--the point was that
making all these things in the USA was once middle-class jobs.

Until you understand why that is (and why it is not now) you haven't
learned anything.

Carla Fong wrote:
I am not the author, I am passing this along without verifying the
cites, so it may be bogus... But i did get it in an email so it must
have come from the Internet so it must be true...

Carla

ONE AT A TIME

(...)

Thanks for that, Carla!

Perhaps we should start a list of products we like that are
manufactured in the U.S.A.

I'll start with my favorite tweezers:
http://www.slivergripper.com/
Manufactured in inscrutable West Hartford Conn.

--Winston

On 10/6/2011 9:23 AM, Winston wrote:
Carla Fong wrote:
I am not the author, I am passing this along without verifying the
cites, so it may be bogus... But i did get it in an email so it must
have come from the Internet so it must be true...

Carla

ONE AT A TIME

(...)

Thanks for that, Carla!

Perhaps we should start a list of products we like that are
manufactured in the U.S.A.

I'll start with my favorite tweezers:
http://www.slivergripper.com/
Manufactured in inscrutable West Hartford Conn.

Samuel Adams beer.

--Curiously ABC News has been doing segments about folks getting rid
of Chinese and other foreign-made stuff and replacing it with domestic
equivalents. Also curiously there's no place on their website to tell them
about more sources of equivalents, most notably the Thomas Register which,
for some reason, has slipped under their radar. Go figure.

--
"Steamboat Ed" Haas : Steel, Stainless, Titanium:
Hacking the Trailing Edge! : Guaranteed Uncertified Welding!
www.nmpproducts.com
---Decks a-wash in a sea of words---

On Wed, 05 Oct 2011 22:55:04 -0700, Carla Fong
wrote:

I am not the author, I am passing this along without verifying the
cites, so it may be bogus... But i did get it in an email so it must
have come from the Internet so it must be true...

Indubitably, my dear Watsonette.

Carla

ONE AT A TIME
A physics teacher in high school once told the students that while one
grasshopper on the railroad tracks wouldn't slow a train very much, but
a billion of them would. With that thought in mind, read the following
written by a citizen who's concerned about America's jobs:

This probably sounds crazy, but just yesterday I was in Wal Mart looking
for a wastebasket. I found some made in China for $6.99. I didn't want
to pay that much so I asked the lady if they had any others.. She took
me to another department and they had some at $2.50 made in USA .. They
are just as good. Same as a kitchen rug I needed. I had to look, but I
found some made in the USA and they were $3.00 cheaper. We are being
brain washed that everything that comes from China and Mexico is
cheaper. Not so. That is also why I don't buy cards at Hallmark anymore.
They are made in China and are expensive. I buy them at Dollar
Tree....50 cents each and made in USA .
--snip--

Carla, I do the same thing. And, contary to so many Wally World
boycotters, the majority of things sold at Walmart are Made in the
USA. http://goo.gl/McgyX Many manufacturers in the USA are getting
savvy and finding local outlets for their products again rather than
trying for gigantic, far-away sales. It's keeping 'em honest. Kudos!

LJ--whose products are all USA-made (and USA sourced whenever
possible.)

--
I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
--Duke Ellington

On Wed, 05 Oct 2011 22:55:04 -0700, Carla Fong wrote:

I am not the author, I am passing this along without verifying the
cites, so it may be bogus... But i did get it in an email so it must
have come from the Internet so it must be true...

Carla

ONE AT A TIME
A physics teacher in high school once told the students that while one
grasshopper on the railroad tracks wouldn't slow a train very much, but
a billion of them would. With that thought in mind, read the following
written by a citizen who's concerned about America's jobs:

***** SNIP ******

If you accept the challenge, pass this on to others in your address
book so we can all start buying American, one light bulb at a time! Stop
buying from overseas companies! (We should have awakened a decade
ago....) Let's get with the program and help our fellow Americans keep
their jobs and create more jobs here in the USA .

Man, I hate these political posts that just Must be Responded To.

At any rate: I've been seeing this stuff, and I greet it with mixed hope
and cynicism.

The first hope is that yes, the tide has turned and blue collar jobs are
coming back to the US. I don't see a future for us where we're all
prostitutes -- uh, I mean service workers. It takes all kinds, and some
of us are the kind that exclusively work with our hands and make stuff.

The second hope is that the trend in China will continue and will spread
to other east Asian countries: that now that the Chinese people are
getting the material wealth they want, that they're going to continue
demanding the civil liberties and freedoms that they've been consistently
denied. China needs to be flooded with little plush "People's Army" tank
dolls, complete with little plush "squished people" dolls sewn on to
their bottoms.

The cynicism is that there are factories in China who, as a final build
step, slap stickers on their products that say "Made in the USA". Even
if there isn't any just plain lying going on, I'll bet that the minimum
requirement for being able to pass legal muster with a "Made in the USA"
sticker still leaves the majority of the profit off shore.

So I'll believe it when I see the results of the audit that shows just
how much of the money spent actually stays on shore, and how much of it
continues to bleed off to China.

Ultimately, in a free market the tide will turn -- I'm just not sure when
that will be, really.

--
www.wescottdesign.com

Something Yuppies use, to be superior.

They have plenty of uses:
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/household/bounce.asp
Most of the uses, not known to the government.

--
Christopher A. Young
Learn more about Jesus
www.lds.org
..


"John B." wrote in message
...


So on to another aisle - Bounce Dryer Sheets... Yep, you
guessed it,
Bounce cost more money and is made in Canada . The
Everyday Value brand
was less money and MADE IN THE USA! I did laundry yesterday
and the


One question. What is a Bounce Dryer Sheet?

--
John B.

"Winston" wrote in message
...
Carla Fong wrote:
I am not the author, I am passing this along without verifying the
cites, so it may be bogus... But i did get it in an email so it must
have come from the Internet so it must be true...

Carla

ONE AT A TIME

(...)

Thanks for that, Carla!

Perhaps we should start a list of products we like that are
manufactured in the U.S.A.

I'll start with my favorite tweezers:
http://www.slivergripper.com/
Manufactured in inscrutable West Hartford Conn.



http://www.stillmadeinusa.com/

PrecisionmachinisT wrote:

(...)

http://www.stillmadeinusa.com/

Thanks PM.
I've asked Stephanie to add El Mar, the
manufacturer of the Sliver Gripper
tweezers to her site.

--Winston

On Thu, 06 Oct 2011 20:10:08 -0700, Winston
wrote:

PrecisionmachinisT wrote:

(...)

http://www.stillmadeinusa.com/

Thanks PM.
I've asked Stephanie to add El Mar, the
manufacturer of the Sliver Gripper
tweezers to her site.

My goodies (glare/privacy guards and handy pouches) are
on http://www.madeinusa.org/nav.cgi now and I just asked
Stephanie to add them to her site, too.

--
I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
--Duke Ellington

Winston wrote:
PrecisionmachinisT wrote:

(...)

http://www.stillmadeinusa.com/

Thanks PM.
I've asked Stephanie to add El Mar, the
manufacturer of the Sliver Gripper
tweezers to her site.

--Winston


those are good tweezers, I had them out as gifts for no real reason at
all.

I like my Cocoran or Matterhorn shoes too.

Cydrome Leader wrote:
wrote:
PrecisionmachinisT wrote:

(...)

http://www.stillmadeinusa.com/

Thanks PM.
I've asked Stephanie to add El Mar, the
manufacturer of the Sliver Gripper
tweezers to her site.

--Winston


those are good tweezers, I had them out as gifts for no real reason at
all.

You too, huh?

I like my Cocoran or Matterhorn shoes too.

If you didn't see them on Stephanie's site,
I urge you to suggest them to her.
http://www.stillmadeinusa.com/about.html
Click the word 'feedback' five paragraphs
down from the top.

--Winston

On 10/6/2011 8:55, Carla Fong wrote:
I am not the author, I am passing this along without verifying the
are just as good. Same as a kitchen rug I needed. I had to look, but I
found some made in the USA and they were $3.00 cheaper. We are being
brain washed that everything that comes from China and Mexico is
cheaper. Not so. That is also why I don't buy cards at Hallmark anymore.
They are made in China and are expensive. I buy them at Dollar
Tree....50 cents each and made in USA .

There are lots of products in Europe that have a sign like
"Made in Germany" which really means that the product was
manufactured in China, shipped to Germany and packed in Germany
with this German company's cardboard box (or other such minor
assemblywork).. Especially often seen with powertools (see,
metalworking content.. So all those "made in USA" products
might not be what they seem..

Otherwise I agree 100% that buying goods manufactured in your
own country is a very good idea for economy. I do that in Finland.

Kristian Ukkonen.

Carla Fong wrote:
I am not the author, I am passing this along without verifying the
cites, so it may be bogus... But i did get it in an email so it must
have come from the Internet so it must be true...

Indeed!

For the last month or so, I've been looking for
a 'grease pencil' or 'china marker'. My local
office supply stores were helpless as were my
local art supply stores. I didn't want the
inefficient kind that looks like a pencil.
I wanted the kind with the plastic holder that
uses replaceable 'leads'.

My Google searches did not reveal the name of this
neat tool. (I did not check all the half million
cites though.) Grrr.

One of my pals knew what I was on about and loaned
me her grease pencil. Bliss! It works perfectly
in my application, it is exactly what I remembered
from my yout, now has seven colors available and it
is *still made in the U.S.A.* in exotic, inscrutable
Alameda California!

http://www.listo.com/

Model 1620 B

I just sent Stephanie a note to that effect.
http://www.stillmadeinusa.com/

I just bought a dozen of them on eBay for about
$1.10 each, including shipping.


--Winston -- Will sport a silly grin for the entire day.

On Sun, 16 Oct 2011 11:57:10 -0700, Winston
wrote:

Carla Fong wrote:
I am not the author, I am passing this along without verifying the
cites, so it may be bogus... But i did get it in an email so it must
have come from the Internet so it must be true...

Indeed!

For the last month or so, I've been looking for
a 'grease pencil' or 'china marker'. My local
office supply stores were helpless as were my
local art supply stores. I didn't want the
inefficient kind that looks like a pencil.
I wanted the kind with the plastic holder that
uses replaceable 'leads'.

My Google searches did not reveal the name of this
neat tool. (I did not check all the half million
cites though.) Grrr.

One of my pals knew what I was on about and loaned
me her grease pencil. Bliss! It works perfectly
in my application, it is exactly what I remembered
from my yout, now has seven colors available and it
is *still made in the U.S.A.* in exotic, inscrutable
Alameda California!

http://www.listo.com/

Model 1620 B

I just sent Stephanie a note to that effect.
http://www.stillmadeinusa.com/

I just bought a dozen of them on eBay for about
$1.10 each, including shipping.


--Winston -- Will sport a silly grin for the entire day.

How well does the "lead" hold up in high temperature environments?

I had one similar (cant remember the name) and it melted down and ran
all over a shelf the first summer I had it.

Id love to have some that will hold up in 110F-115F temperatures.

Gunner


"In the history of mankind, there have always been men and women who's goal
in life is to take down nations. We have just elected such a man to run our
country." - David Lloyyd (2008)