Made in the USA

So The Vermont Teddy Bear company turned my site down as a candidate for their affilate program. Maybe the site was to American Made for them? They did not bother to say why. So I guess they are made in the USA, but sorry honey I’ll never be sending a Teddy Bear order from them anytime soon!

I really want my site to stay away from politics and it has, so I’m not sure why they would not like the site? They advertise on right wing radio (I thought they did) and this site is not right or left!

Keep your money in the US, Keep your Job in the US!

So I’ve been able to add a few more companies to the American made Toy page of the website. The good news is there are more then ever before. You may want to know why you don’t see some companies on my list when it appears on other list of American Made toys. Well the simple answer is they don’t put anything loud and clear on their website about being Made in the USA. If I have to guess then I guess no and pass them up even if they are on another list. Sometimes I email and ask them, but I’d rather list the proud first!

There is a wave of interest right now in American Made. Sing it loud and proud there are people out there that want to buy your products!!!!!

Ok some of the points are silly. Yes moving toys like skateboards and bikes can indeed be dangerous, but so can walking across the street. Is it not the unseen and unkown that is more dangerous? Is there lead in that paint? Did slave labor make this toy? Did an American loose a job becuase this toy was made in China?

Here is a link to the story about Tips on what to watch out for!

How cool, on Thanksgiving this site was mentioned in an OP ED in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette Opinion. It is a good OP ED by the way. I love this line “That’s OK. I’m also sure there are political beliefs on some of these sites that would curl my hair. I’m not trying to get all red, white and blue in the face here.” And for the record I never wanted this site to be poltical! So I hope it was not this site he meant, as he did list several others along with Americansworking.com.

So thanks Pittsburgh Post Gazzette. Here is a link to the well written article about Made in America

Well I’m not even going to try and answer that. The reason I’ve used that as a headline is because of what I have just read. There are several articles just published regarding the shopping habits of Jesus if he were here today. One of the articles is a MTV interview with film maker Moragn Spurlock of “Super Size Me” fame. This interview is based on his new film “What would Jesus Buy” So near the end of the interview he mentions a scene that was cut from the film about a Chinese Woman who is jailed for being a Christain, while jailed for her horrible crime she is forced to make Christmas Lights to be exported to the US. All the while being tortured. Now I don’t know if this is true, it sounds as though he is talking about it as fact. I would like to know. Although I already believe it just because of all of the news of this type of activity coming from China.

Here is the link to the article 

Keep your money at home, keep your job at home.

Today I added Maglite flashlights to the American Made Products Directory. I was told about Maglite by an alert visitor to the site, thanks Jeff!

One of the things I loved about the Maglite site was that they were proud of the fact they are American Made and did not mind bragging about it. I know what all of my flashlights will be from now one.

People are looking more and more often for American Made. I think the big factor of course is all of the faulty and often dangerous products coming from China.

Americansworking.com is getting double and triple the number of hits we did this time last year!

For the record I have nothing against the people of China. Can’t stand communist, but you can’t blame the people for working for next to nothing, cause the other option is nothing! But they could and should do better for thier own people.

And I do ask myself, “should we enrich our lives by buying cheap products from countries that do things we don’t, and we don’t for good reasons?” I think not. That is why this year more then ever before I will be looking at my own list of American Made Products for my Christmas Shopping!

Keep your money at home, keep your job at home, keep your homes safer.

It always amazes me that the people who are trying to make an impact on Global Warming etc don’t put more energy into buying things locally rather then importing? Maybe they do and I just missed it. There are many groups and websites like this one urging people to buy American made products for many reasons. I would think another good reason is a smaller carbon foot print right? How can an imported product not have a huge carbon foot print? They are made in factories where in most cases there are not laws regarding emissions, the electricty used is made by burning coal, the cargo ships that transport the products here are not running on bio diesel fuel last I looked?

So yet another great reason to buy American Made Products! Buying American reduces your carbon foot print and keeps your job at home! At least the way that I see it and that’s all that counts in my house.

Sounds like a stupid question right? I know everone just thinks it the labor right? Well you have all seen the horrible press Chinese goods have received over the last few months right. The new did not just focus on cheap labor did it? Most of the news reported about unsafe materials and workmenship. So lets break this down shall we. Why are Chinese goods cheap:

• Cheap Labor (we all know that)
• Little to no safety regulations
• Little to know QA (as we know it anyhow)
• Corruption
• Devalued money (on purpose)
• No worker rights (as we know them)
• Free electricty (from coal fired plants I might add)
• No B&O tax
• No Payroll tax (do you pay slaves?)
• No health insurance
• Little to no regs or guidelines on pollution
• No emmission controls (as we know it)
• Cutting Corners!
• No worker rights
• Extreme Greed
• Copyrights What copyrights!

No I don’t have hard facts to back all this up, but I can read (can’t spell) and I do read the news. You don’t have to be the world’s smartest guy to figure this out. It’s everwhere! Just like their products!

Keep your money at home, keep your job at home.

USA rocks! Blue State, Red State, were all Great States

Here is a link to a new Press Release regarding our Directory of American Made Products