Want to Buy American?
I found this great list with links to all kinds of products that are American made. You can use it to make sure the products you buy are actually made in America so you can put your hard earned dollars toward building our economy and putting our citizens to work.
In my opinion this should not be a Democratic or a Republican issue. Liberal, conservative or progressive, Christian, Jewish or any other religion, if you are American now is the time to make sure you buy American!
This list has everything from air cleaners to washing machines plus everything in between. The list will be expanding as more products are found and added. There is a submit product form if you make or know of a product made in the USA that you would like to add. There is also an email list you can join for updates. This is a good thing that I will be using for future purchases and I hope all of you do too.
Rather than try to move a hundred links to lunacanus, I am giving you one link to the list. You can look for your items from there. Follow the link below to the entire list.
http://www.americansworking.com/
Let's get these dock doors open and start delivering products made in the USA to Americans. Every purchase, no matter how small, of American made products will help put Americans back to work.
My wife, who is often known for her requirement of “nice things” has through her experience of unemployment gained a new concern of this problem and has made some wise choices during this holiday season. For one, when she shops at our local Ralphs, she refuses to use their new “self-check out” thing where one uses a computer to tally up their bill. I’ve seen her get in extremely long lines while the self-check out was empty. In her authentic Irish accent, she proudly exclaims that there should be people working where those f—ing computers are. The other thing she’s done was refuse to buy our daughter Christmas toys at Wal-mart (even though we’re pretty damned broke!) She’s been looking at the buy American options more and more. Although some toys were bought at Toys R Us-we’re focusing on not contributing to the pattern of buying cheap, imported items.
Not only are cheap, imported toys often dangerous for small children, but for each stuffed animal or fire engine that’s bought at Wal-mart (AND Target, JC Penney, Toys R Us, pretty much everywhere!), a job is lost here in the US. The cycle has to be broken: Average house holds with children are barely making ends meet, so parents go to these “super” stores to load up on cheap toys so their kids aren’t disapointed come Christmas morning. The manufacturers know and exploit this rule: keep the American masses broke enough so they’ll have to buy at Wal-mart, etc. Hasn’t anyone ever heard of Gerald Ford? On the other side of the world, meanwhile, children as young as our six year old daughter work for eighteen hours a day in sweatshop factories making toy “Elmo’s:, clothes, and just about everything America buys. They have no schooling. No electricity, running water, or heat. For them, December 25th is just another day on the factory floor, just so American children can experience the tradition of Christmas morning in front of their parents, who smile at them while worrying about the credit cards they just maxxed out.
The truth is-to buy American is to spend a some more money than on an import. That might mean one pair of jeans instead of two. It might mean fewer toys for the kids. It might mean a lot of things, but if it also means an increase in domestic employment and the end of the cycle of sweatshop labor, then I think the one pair of jeans, and the one toy Elmo instead of two is just fine.