Keep Asking for American Made!

We are making a difference! After reading this article, "Forget ‘Buy American’? U.S. Retailers Push an ‘Imports Work’ Campaign." I knew that the Buy American movement was really getting the message out and times are a changing. More and more of us are asking for Made in U.S.A. products and that scares many retailers who only sell imports. Change can only happen when the people demand it and we are demanding it! 

I encourage you to read the article and read between the lines. Here is one quote, "What’s more, as for those socks imported from China, Baughman says that such products help—rather than hinder—U.S. employment: “It’s Americans that unload the socks at the port. It’s Americans that are involved in the marketing and selling of those socks.” There will always be imports and retailers, so there will always be dock workers and sales associates, but just think how many more people are employed in America when we grow the cotton, make the yarn, knit the sock, package the sock, sell the sock, buy the sock, export the sock and how good we feel when we wear the sock that is completely made in the U.S.A.. By the way, we do make tons of socks completely in America so there is absolutely no reason to buy socks made anywhere else!

I have always believed that all countries should have a strong manufacturing base. What we need now in America is more competition within the industries to help bring prices down. We need a rebirth of our textile industry so we can have more towels, sheets and clothing made here. We need to bring the production of kitchen appliances back to America along with scientific glass, heating elements and power cords suitable to be used in these products. Americans are tired of cheap products that break or don't work after one use. We don't want to be a "throw away society", we want products that last.