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Originally posted by Hallberg Rassy
Where was loyalty to American made goods in the 70,80,90's..??
I remember commercials on MSM begging people to buy American made goods..but nobody did. They bought inferior foriegn, and not from China. It was made in Taiwan, Europe, Mexico, and Japan. This was when China was in middle of cultural and agricultural upheaval.
Originally posted by devareous
if u think america cant or ,cant afford to retool and restart its own manufacturing ur way wrong.We can retool and everything for almost no cost,just waive the cost lol we make it anyway and we have the raw mats.This is how wwII was fought u realy think they didnt retool factorys for tanks and plane becuse of money.They said to hell with money or the cost it all comes down to if u have the resourses and the people are backing you it can all be done for free.The main problem we have with accomplishing this is the world stage interactions,The truth is the world does not want us to go into seclution mode,only doing in america for america,This would put enemys at our doorstep.This is been said by many nations.on the surface the common man of other countrys would mabey blame america for wars,or aany number of acusations,but the real power of the world the money,tells a diffrent story,it says no,no,no,america dont leave our country and go get strong.It saya please stay and give me your wealth for ppe dreams of fadeing smoke.Let me fleece you oh great nation,this is the talk of money,it has no loyalty only want.
If pur goverment was REALY on our side above all,then ya we could do it in a heart beat.and the companys would do it for free till they got on there feet.
Originally posted by pieman
america makes everything you might want. name one consumer item that there is no american made version of. just one item.
Originally posted by googolplex
Just think though if we were to ever go to war with China, they would be using all the scrap metal we send them, to make war toys to blow us up.
Just like Japan did with the metal we sent them back in good ole WWII.
Originally posted by googolplex
reply to post by RFBurns
Like I said when was kid it was all made in Japan, junk.
And as I said it's a given about China, but I would buy tools Swiss, German.
But the other day, another guy and I were talking about this and started to look at everything and everything said China. and no I didn't know everything was made in China.
I can't afford good stuff made in Japan anyhow.