I don't know about you but I am fed up with Made in China. I look at labels and I will buy Made in USA or even Made in Mexico over China but it is getting harder and harder. The other day I went to buy a new pair of Red Wing shoes...Made in China. Key Bib Overalls...Made in Mexico. Van Heusen shirts...Made in Vietnam. Carhartt jacket...Made in Mexico. If I go to my local Rural Ching, I mean King most everything in that place is Made in China. Enough venting...I am just tired of it!
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Jason the Red
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They do still make some boots in the states.
Even the gov't is outsourcing the construction of roads & bridges to the Chinese now....stimulus tax dollars to stimulate the Chinese economy, I guess??!!
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MarkB_MI
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If you're willing to pay 200 bucks or more for a pair of boots, you can get US-made Red Wings. The (relatively) cheaper Red Wings are imported.
Jason the Red
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If you want overalls, look for Roundhouse. Made in USA. The last four pairs of overalls i've bought are Roundhouse, I like them pretty well.
MarkB_MI
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That statement makes no sense whatsoever. US manufacturers did not ship jobs overseas because of a lack of cheap energy. After all, China has to buy their oil on the same world market as the US. Jobs were shipped overseas because of cheap labor, lax regulation and (in the case of China) favorable currency exchange rates.
Anonymous-0
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Problem is no one in the USA can think enough to care or make noise until it is over. The cow is already in China...where the he11 were you 20 years ago?
Americans are a nation in hindsight. A bridge collapses.... so we the do bridge inspections.
A child is molested....so then we warn the kids and parents,.
Grow up America! It will someday rain again.
You fat cows better learn to fix your roof today while the sun is out.
Americans are a nation in hindsight. A bridge collapses.... so we the do bridge inspections.
A child is molested....so then we warn the kids and parents,.
Grow up America! It will someday rain again.
You fat cows better learn to fix your roof today while the sun is out.
China is in their industrial age, just as we were in the 1800s. So, they aren't fat or lazy yet and aren't wasting tons of money on things like OSHA and the Environmental Protection regs like we have here now.
The average American makes tons more money then Chinese workers do - yet I suspect they are much happier with what they're getting for a day's work.
I don't like to see the down-turn of the US, but come on! The American "work ethic" is almost a thing of the past. How many people sit around on this fat butts making 200K a year for doing nothing and whine about it. How many USA Union workers consider themselves the ONLY workers in America? Yet that are greatly outnumbered by non-union workers getting less money for an hour's work.
One thing I WILL say. All of us can afford things made overseas that we could never buy if made here. That goes for tools, cell phones, computer components, TVs, and much much more.
I'll enjoy THAT part of it while I can. I certainly can do much about the rest of it.
The average American makes tons more money then Chinese workers do - yet I suspect they are much happier with what they're getting for a day's work.
I don't like to see the down-turn of the US, but come on! The American "work ethic" is almost a thing of the past. How many people sit around on this fat butts making 200K a year for doing nothing and whine about it. How many USA Union workers consider themselves the ONLY workers in America? Yet that are greatly outnumbered by non-union workers getting less money for an hour's work.
One thing I WILL say. All of us can afford things made overseas that we could never buy if made here. That goes for tools, cell phones, computer components, TVs, and much much more.
I'll enjoy THAT part of it while I can. I certainly can do much about the rest of it.
Bought an almost new JD HX10 10' mower this summer. Made in Canada (fine with me), but the three gearboxes on it? You guessed it, made in China! I left the US for 20 years and it's amazing how different it is now and not for the better. Everything made in China and girls with tattoos.
Aaron Ford
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I buy my boots off of Belleville Shoe Company. Priced similarly to your Red Wings, they are a military contractor and therefore must be made in the US. They are, by far, the most comfortable shoes I have ever worn. You can shop online or request a catalog from www.bellevilleshoe.com Shipping is quick and the sizes run pretty true but if you get the gore-tex liner, you have to jump up a half size. I wear 800ST's at work and 330's at home. I was tired of spending $170 for Chinese made Rocky's that fall apart in a year. I have worn a pair of these 3 years plus in coal and ash. Good made boots.
Aaron
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Charles E. McNelly
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I just picked up another pair of Red Wing boots for $189.99. Yes there expensive but there the longest lasting, most comfortable work boot that last I have ever wore. I'll pay more for "Made in the USA" and that's ok with me. I too am sick of all the foreign stuff.
Charles
Charles
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Well if you think about it the guys who do the scrap to make a buck just make it easy for the made in China to happen as does the labor unions any more and the fact so many regs. as for pollution and all the stuff like that. Face it the gov has let it happen and we just feed it
Anonymous-0
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Me too!!!
Just got a pair of binoculars delivered by UPS this evening, bought them new off of ebay, was a name brand too, took them out of the box and would not focus or zoom, very small print on the box said made in China. Have contacted the seller and supposed to be replacing them but I wouldn't have bought them in the first place had I have known where they were made.
Just got a pair of binoculars delivered by UPS this evening, bought them new off of ebay, was a name brand too, took them out of the box and would not focus or zoom, very small print on the box said made in China. Have contacted the seller and supposed to be replacing them but I wouldn't have bought them in the first place had I have known where they were made.
Yeah, the last RedWing boots I bought, I had a choice of Chinese or US made. Big difference in price, but I chose the US boot. A lot of Union people wear RedWing boots. It would be bad news to be sitting under a semi-trailer eating dinner, and someone see "made in China" on your boot sole. Never did like to fight on a full stomach. OR an empty one if I could avoid it.
I was heartbroke to get home and see that the LaCrosse chore boots that I bought at Rural King were made in China. I guess I should have returned them, but they fit so nice. . .
I was heartbroke to get home and see that the LaCrosse chore boots that I bought at Rural King were made in China. I guess I should have returned them, but they fit so nice. . .
The 10 largest employer in Wisconsin 2010-Walmart, University of Wisconsin Madison, Milwaukee Public Schools, Wisconsin Department of Corrections, Menard's, Marshfield Clinics, Auroura Healthcare, City of Milwaukee and the Wisconsin Department of Corrections. Notice the abscence of Allis Chalmers, J I Case, Allen Bradley, Harley Davidson, Millers, Blatz, Oscar Meyer, Regal Beloit, Fairbanks-Morse, Falk, Cutler Hammer, Bucyrus, Manitowoc Corporation, Fort Howard Paper, Kimberly Clark, Scott Paper or Pabst Breweing. Our new Governer balanced the state budget for the first time in years without laying off peple or raising taxes, the unions are starting a recall campaign against him as a thank-you. Any one know of any cheap tropical islands for sale?
As usual, you reply without knowing the facts, look at the historical price of oil and compare the sharp increases to when the USA lost manufacturing capacity, the mid and late 70's, early 80's, last decade. etc. China buys their energy on the same market as we do but they have access to nearly slave labor, cheap energy trumps cheap labor.
Anonymous-0
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I'd just like to add that so many replacement parts for antique tractors are also "made in China" PLEASE start making things in the good ol' U.S.A. again!!! It may have cost a little more but it LASTED!
I like to think our Canadian goods were of similar quality. It employed the population, paid the taxes and so forth.
Just my two cent's
MarkB_MI
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Oil was dirt cheap from the mid eighties up through about 2003. This was also a period when millions of US jobs left the country.
Even if your cause-and-effect hypothesis was correct, opening up new areas for drilling isn't going to make oil significantly cheaper. Oil exploration companies drill for oil only when it is profitable to do so. They'll drill when oil prices get up to around 150 bucks a barrel, but when prices fall back down they'll stop.
Even if your cause-and-effect hypothesis was correct, opening up new areas for drilling isn't going to make oil significantly cheaper. Oil exploration companies drill for oil only when it is profitable to do so. They'll drill when oil prices get up to around 150 bucks a barrel, but when prices fall back down they'll stop.
I"m glad someone on this board finally acknowledges that oil was cheap for a recent 20 year span and that all the worlds problems are not caused by ""greedy"" oil companies and drillers. There was significant job loss during those years but at the same time the unions were not prepared to make many concessions and that cheap oil was available to every country worldwide, therefore, many countries had the advantage of cheap oil and slave labor, the difference of developing our vast reserves of natural gas and oil today is that we would have the cheap energy and they would still be paying world market price. And no, US companies would not ship that oil overseas and natural gas is still not economically feasible to export via other than pipelines. Increased supply lowers cost, period. Oil companies do naturally increase drilling activity when prices are high and supplies are low, same as increasing crop acres when any one commodity is in short supply but, oil companies also have to plan for the future and maintain market share or they will not be around very long. That is the strategy followed by the worlds largest oil companies, why do you think all the companies have been complaining the last year and a half for the Zero administration to start giving permits in the Gulf of Mexico again? Did you think it was because they did not want to drill until oil hit $150.00?
Most of the parts I bought for my truck were from China. Should I stop driving my truck.I need hay, fertilizer, grain and lumber.I use the truck to go to the doctor.What will happen when people buy only basic needs.Bunch of fools on the internet .My shoes and overalls are from China,I cant cut wood barefoot and naked.
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