Posted by LJD on November 30, 2011 at 06:25:39 from (67.142.130.43):
In Reply to: Challenge, Buy Local posted by showcrop on November 30, 2011 at 05:49:04:
I support all the local places I can in my rural area. I'm part of the local economy and when I can fix a customer's machine much cheaper with foreign parts, I'm doing him a favor and not a dis-service. I wonder where you computer insides or your cell phone was made?
But . . . you think buying Red Wing boots somehow proves a point?
Let's see.
Part of Red Wing's corporate income is from selling Asian made footwear and selling in the USA under other brand labels. So it seems THEY are not against buying foreign products.
Red Wing often offers discounts to what they call "workers" IF you have a current union membership card. So, the vast majority of workers in the USA are NON union, yet Red Wing feels we non-union workers do not count?
What a bunch of hooey. Unions legally extort taxpayers by offering member votes to the politician who will support them the best. Thus the reason why union membership is almost dead in the private sector but thriving in the government supported sector.
If paying near $300 for boots makes you feel more American, good for you.
I pay $60 for Chinese boots at Walmart and get 3-4 years out of them. And Walmart is an American company.
We are not a "stand alone" nation anymore and all this overseas griping is rediculous. Get rid of the extorting unions that take my tax dollars and maybe I'll feel a little different.
Companies like Ford - the only private auto maker left in the USA has survived because of their world-wide presence and they took NO governmengt bail-out money. GM is partially owned by the US and Canadian governments. Chrysler is owned by Fiat of Italy. Both got huge amounts of US taxpayer cash.
So, if Ford "unAmerican" because they survived on their own with insight and good management?
Since I do NOT get an inflated union wage, I chose to be frugal and more careful with my money. I am still just as American as you.
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