Monday, November 2, 2009
All I Want For Christmas...
...is for folks to gift each other AMERICAN MADE products and services.
Each year I travel far and wide - both via cyberspace and concrete highway - looking for American made products to purchase as Christmas and Hanukkah gifts.
Forget the cheap Chinese made crap that the big box stores, malls, and department stores try to foster on you. Why stimulate the economy of a nation which wishes us no good when instead our hard earned dollars can buttress local, state, and nationwide businesses owned, run, and staffed by our fellow citizens?
Support a local restaurant - buy a gift certificate for someone!
Booze...? Always appreciated! Wine, whiskey, beer... even vodka... our nation's vintners, distillers and brewers - and their employees - deserve our support! (And, hell... bottles are always good for re-gifting... as a housewarming present... as something to bring along to a party! Bottom line... the gift of booze won't go to waste!)
How'bout gourmet food products? You know, the choices range far beyond Omaha Steaks...
Seriously! Check this out... I want one of those pies...!!!
(And, hey... what's pie without coffee? I get New Mexico Pinon Coffee at Trader Joe's for $6.49 a can! Anyone out there still want to help our fellow citizens in New Orleans? I know I'd be thrilled to receive some honest to goodness Cafe du Monde coffee with chicory; why not stimulate the economy of the Big Easy as opposed to financing expansion of the Great Wall? Finally... a Hawaiian vacation - pricey; some Hawaiian coffee... priceless!)
You're getting the idea, right folks?
Clothing...??? Check out the All American Clothing Company and Union House Apparel.
Folks... com'on... we can do this; we can stick together as a nation!
Utilize the internet. Plug in search terms such as "American Made" and "Made in USA." Throw in qualifiers such as "toys," "games," "tools," etc. They're out there... you just have to put a little effort into looking for them.
Call up our "friends" at Walmart at 1-800-925-6278 and tell the customer service representative who answers that you're a customer and if Walmart wants to retain your business they'll start stocking and selling more American made products. Low prices at the cost of American jobs is anything but a bargain folks.
Call up Sears... 1-800-349-4358
People! You get the idea! We all have our favorite stores - both independent stores and chain stores. Speak to store management the next time you're out shopping. Contact their customer service departments from the comfort of home or from your office. It'll take you but a moment to hunt down a phone number and making a call so as to let America's retailers know that you want their stores to stock and sell American made goods and that those who do will get your business - those who don't will lose it.
Anyway... that's my Christmas message. I hope you take it to heart.
God Bless American and... Merry Christmas... Happy Hanukkah...
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So much better to buy products from unionized American companies! Let's promote communism at home!
In case you hadn't noticed, my point is that just promoting "buy American" isn't enough. If you're buying from a unionized company, you are doing as much damage to our country as you would by sending your money to China, since artificially inflating our wages makes us less competitive, by making our products more expensive.
You can scream "buy American" to the hilltops, but some people simply cannot afford to do that. If you want them to buy American, then make it affordable for them to do so: eliminate unions, cut corporate taxes (only Japan has higher corporate taxes than the U.S.), and remove the minimum wage (or at least reduce it to give young workers a better chance to enter the job market). Get rid of the insanely stupid laws which make it difficult/impossible for American manufacturing to compete.
"So much better to buy products from unionized American companies!"
In a word... Yes.
Ed. We've "known" each other for years now. You are what you are - a selfish individualist with no concern for the national good or that of your fellow citizens.
(*SHRUG*)
To reiterate the examples I've used many times before, you are the sort of person who sold scrap metal to Imperial Japan in the '30's that they ultimately used to turn into weapons and ammunition which killed Americans in the '40's.
You are the sort of person who sold the Nazis the equipment and technology with which to "improve" their concentration camps.
Ed. You're 90% nice guy... 10% dirtbag. (Not the worst ratio...)
(*SMILE*) (*SHRUG*)
"You can scream "buy American" to the hilltops..."
And I will.
As always, thanks for chiming in.
BILL
* P.S. - And just to beat Rob to the punch...
Mindless anti-unionism is as asinine as mindless anti-corporatism.
Good. Now, once we apply our concern about what many people can, and cannot, afford to medical insurance and excellent cradle-to-grave health care, we'll be making some real progress towards a good (in every sense) society.
Bill,
So you're saying it's better to promote communism here than capitalism elsewhere? And you think I'm ruining the country?
You need to ask yourself whether you believe in American values, or American geography?
Bill, so you're saying it's better to promote communism here than capitalism elsewhere?"
(*ROLLING MY EYES*)
Folks. Visit Ed's blog at:
http://politicsandpigskins.blogspot.com/
He's really a good guy - and right far more often than wrong when it comes to social/economic/social (and of course sports) questions.
That said... as you can see... he's prone to go off the deep end at times.
Hey... one thing I'll say for Ed; he actually believes what he writes.
(*WINK*)
BILL
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