Rick,
You should not feel guilty about buying something made abroad for a lower
price. The only way for the US to remain competitive in a global economy is to
let the lower skilled jobs go overseas and force higher education standards.
If we keep on protecting low skill jobs we will lower the overall standard of
living.
The problem is jobs moving overseas makes for great headlines and political
rhetoric. The benefits of better training and higher education are well
documented but it takes years to see results. Politician do not care to
implement policies with long term benefits that helps the person that is
elected 8 years in the future.
Keeping jobs that require minimum skills and can be done anywhere in the world
costs a lot of money with very little long term benefit and possibly long term
reduced competitiveness.
My 2.5 cents
Steve
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-----Original Message-----
From: HealeyRick <healeyrick@yahoo.com>
Sender: spridgets-bounces@autox.team.net
Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 16:12:48
To: <Spridgets@autox.team.net>; Robert Evans<b-evans@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: [Spridgets] Frank would have loved this site--Made in
America!!!!
I feel guilty about this subject. Like a lot of guys, I shopped price in
the 60s and 70s, although this meant Japanese products rather than Chinese,
etc. Often, you could get the same quality at a better price. American
industry isn't entirely blameless, though. I grew up in a New England town
that produced high quality shoes. If you couldn't get a job anywhere else,
you could always find work at one of the shoe factories. South American
buyers came shopping for used shoe machinery and the factory owners laughed
over how they screwed these guys over on the price of worn out stuff. Turns
out, the machinery was repaired and the shoes being sourced elsewhere sold for
less than the homegrown stuff. Local folks lost their jobs and the U.S.
factories shut down. Now, lots of people that would have been employed in one
of the shops are surviving courtesy of welfare, etc.
I don't know that we can fight globalization. I figured it was over when
the American icon, Levi's, moved production outside the U.S. But if you want
to buy an American jeas as your small protest, you can go here:
http://www.gussetclothing.com/ I'm wearing 'em, they're pretty sweet.
Rick
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--- On Sat, 5/14/11, Robert Evans <b-evans@earthlink.net> wrote:
From: Robert Evans <b-evans@earthlink.net>
Subject: [Spridgets] Frank would have loved this site--Made in America!!!!
To: Spridgets@autox.team.net
Date: Saturday, May 14, 2011, 5:35 PM
This is a starting place to find loads of links to companies that still
boast that what they produce, are "Made in the USA"!!!
http://abcnews.go.com/WN/MadeInAmerica/
Buster Evans
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