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Do you buy American ? (USA)


(US citizen) Yes, always
  0% (0)
(US citizen) Usually, when I can
  39% (9)
(US citizen) When I can afford it
  21% (5)
(US citizen) I don't care
  13% (3)
(US citizen) Foreign products are better
  0% (0)
(US citizen) US made is poor quality, so no
  4% (1)
(non US) All I can
  0% (0)
(non US) Sometimes
  13% (3)
(non US) Absolutely NOT
  8% (2)


Total Votes : 23


(last vote on : 12/28/2011 6:56:54 PM)
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Do you buy American ? (USA) - 5/5/2011 3:02:02 AM   
Termyn8or


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Just answer the question.

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RE: Do you buy American ? (USA) - 5/5/2011 5:03:22 AM   
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I do when it is practical.

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RE: Do you buy American ? (USA) - 5/5/2011 5:04:44 AM   
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I dont look at the "made in..." tags.. I look at the pricetags.

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RE: Do you buy American ? (USA) - 5/5/2011 5:35:17 AM   
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Ok-  take a pack of socks,  one is China and the other is Banglasdash, or anywhere else.  I pick the one made elsewhere.

Stuff from China sold here is crap.  I dont necessary blame China but the American businessmen who dream up the specs.  So on socks - the ones from China likely have less stitches and threads per sock.... then anywhere else.



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RE: Do you buy American ? (USA) - 5/5/2011 6:15:00 AM   
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quote:

ORIGINAL: GreedyTop

I dont look at the "made in..." tags.. I look at the pricetags.


What she said :o)

Particular with doing lots of crafts, for me its about that it looks good but remains cheap for my products...today I got some of many buttons which are actually from Jesse James company, which seem to have a homepage at dressitup.com but on the lable is clearly stated "imported items from Taiwan and China, packaged in USA"....so I couldn't care less if they are packaged in the US, to be honest....but they were produced in Taiwan and China....and sold in the UK

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RE: Do you buy American ? (USA) - 5/5/2011 6:19:03 AM   
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Taiwan makes better stuff then China. ..and the US -  all we make is packages- and exotic financial instruments. 

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RE: Do you buy American ? (USA) - 5/5/2011 6:22:12 AM   
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quote:

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Taiwan makes better stuff then China. ..and the US -  all we make is packages- and exotic financial instruments. 


Tell that to my company.  We've had two batches of Taiwanese caps, from two different companies, that had defective dialectrics. They outgassed and went bad slowly over a period of sixteen to twenty months.  One of the companies steadfastly declared that their caps were fine and we overstressed them after we sent them some caps for failure analysis, and we dropped them from our vendor list.


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RE: Do you buy American ? (USA) - 5/5/2011 9:26:07 AM   
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Yeah Steve, we know that's not supposed to happen for 26 months, right when the warranty runs out.

Sorry about your luck. I hope you're not elbow deep into an electronics company, because it's not a good place to be now.

"Prease to not put any lipple current to our supremely superior caps, they are totally delicate". And they're SMD so they eat the fucking equipment right out from under them. And don't use the Rubycon excuse.

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RE: Do you buy American ? (USA) - 5/5/2011 9:29:36 AM   
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I buy locally, whenever possible, so that's American but not necessarily because it's American.

For everything else, I buy the highest quality I can get I can afford, even if it means spending a little more, sometimes that's American, sometimes it's not.


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RE: Do you buy American ? (USA) - 5/5/2011 9:34:09 AM   
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I buy for quality and economy. Checking to see where it is made, is not part of the decision making.

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RE: Do you buy American ? (USA) - 5/5/2011 9:45:22 AM   
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To be frank, I stopped buying shit.

Stuff.

It does not last....  I have already dropped off junk at Walmart and told then they could pay for the disposal of the item.

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RE: Do you buy American ? (USA) - 5/5/2011 12:46:05 PM   
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For food I shop locally as much as I can, everything else I try to get a cost/quality ratio as good as possible. 

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RE: Do you buy American ? (USA) - 5/5/2011 5:06:15 PM   
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Keep the votes coming if possible, I don't mean more than once, just trying to get a handle on something.

I have a comment but I'm going to withold it for now so as not to slew the results.

But just as a tickler I'll say this. There is/was a city in Japan named Usa. They got away with putting "Made in USA" on a bunch of things a few decades ago.

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RE: Do you buy American ? (USA) - 5/5/2011 5:09:27 PM   
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i buy local whenever possible. It's less about whether it's made in the US and more about whether it's a small business or a large Corporation for me.

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RE: Do you buy American ? (USA) - 5/7/2011 2:25:20 AM   
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OK, I guess the poll is over.

You do not buy American. You can't buy American. Look inside your Pioneer bigscreen TV made in the USA, yup old but not that old. Made in the USA. Sure was. But look at some of the Ics. CXA this and CXA that. That is Sony. That mean they were made by Tokyo Tse Chung Kogyo. Try to to find them in the yellow pages, you won't. Look at your Chevy Cavlier. Have a look at the fuel injector(s). Bosch. That's German. Yup, the boys that killed the Jews. Apparently all of them because they are still pissed. Look at anything and everything in your house, find ONE THING just one, that has no foreign components.

Even your house. I remember about the Chinese drywall. What is next, lead laden toxic bricks from these motherfuckers ? But you can't stop. The only way you can stop is to stop buying. To buy used. To keep things going. To refuse to part with those USDs.

They got you by the balls. There is a part of the computer in your car that functions like a set of points. Remember them ? Well in the old days you could walk to a nearby store and get a new set for about five bucks. Now it is in a box that costs $300. And you can't work on it, in fact in some cases you are prohibited by "law". I see no law. Because it might not meet emission standards you need a million certifications. You need a contractor's license to change your own hot water tank. You can't put a light out on your porch without having it inspected.

One thing you can still buy American is paper clips. HELLO, paper is out of date, it is the computer age. Everything you buy - MARK MY WORDS - is designed SPECIFICALLY to thwart attempts at repair. To make it costly. That way when the value of the item no longer exceeds it's repair cost it is economically better to replace it. It would be one thing if it was made here, it would be putting people to work, but they don't care where it is made. In fact they prefer it was not made here for many reasons.

I watched a seminar years ago. Wanna know the topic ? "How to avoid hiring a US worker". No shit. The idea was to "prove" to the government that noone here could do the job, thus they must authorize a bunch of H1B visas. Tactics were displayed for how to write the application, how to conduct the interview and everything just to avoid hiring domestically.

You may ask why anyone would do such a thing. Well I will address that later. But it is and has been and will be done that way. If you can possibly think, really think, WHY ? The answer might come clear.

But I have learned not to dump it all on you at once because quite frankly, you can't fucking take it. You can't undersatnd the greed involved, the lust for power, the desire to reshape the world in your own image. The delusion of Godhood. Well I can.

More later, much much more.

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RE: Do you buy American ? (USA) - 5/7/2011 4:51:41 AM   
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I have no idea. I never look to see where something is made. If I like/need it and I can afford it I buy it.

I really could care less where it's made.

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