Comments on: buy American

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 01:45:12 +0000

I'm so glad I found your blog. The fact that you take pride in buying American not for the novelty, but as a way to bring our economy around is inspiring.

It's mind boggling that this idea isn't something that people do on there own anymore. Maybe we need to use a widespread advertising campaign like back in WWII to get the message out. There is a related post on this blog http://americanboom.com/blog/ if you want to check it out.

Thanks for the post man!

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:45:12 +0000

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[...] Buy American. I like Steve’s take here, and share his sentiments on the loss of American manufacturing capacity. Unless you happen to live in one of the few remaining industrial cores in the country, I suspect your town looks a little like mine. A drive from one end of the main road to the other yields not a single business that manufactures anything. I hope that changes one day. [...]

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By: Forty2

Forty2 — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 18:47:40 +0000

Excellent and somewhat heartfelt post. I have been yelling about this for years and nobody listens; consumers won't pay a premium in most cases and producers increasingly only care about appeasing shareholders.

I do buy American, when I can, e.g. All-Clad cookware that will last the rest of my life (but check the packaging; even All-Clad is making stuff in China now), the US-made old tools in my old rusty US-made toolbox that I've had since I was about 16, and so on. But it's become so hard to find US-made products that I've largely given up, though I always try and find an alternative to Chinese product to the point where I will go without. This is nothing to do with Chinese workers and everything to do with their corrupt government and total disregard for the value of human life, not to mention the environmental devastation they've wrought. It's also a message to vendors, but they won't listen.

By: Anne

Anne — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 21:37:43 +0000

I'd be happy to buy American, but more often than not, the extra I pay for American does not get me a better product. American vehicles are a case in point. Why should I support an industry that refuses to build a quality product that is fuel efficient?

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Sat, 17 Jan 2009 11:19:34 +0000

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By: Fabulously Broke

Fabulously Broke — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:42:41 +0000

I truly hate cheap quality items. Plastic hammers, knives that are blunt after a couple of uses, super thin steel on pots when I need something stronger to handle the heat.. it drives me mad, but no one makes that kind of quality any longer because we're not willing to pay for it as consumers.

We're too caught up in saving money and being frugal that a $50 hammer vs. a $15 hammer is a simple choice because of the $35 difference.

I'd rather pay the $50 hammer once, but I just can't find that kind of steel or quality any longer.

Fabulously Broke in the City

"Just a girl trying to find a balance between being a Shopaholic and a Saver."

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