I don’t know if you have been receiving this gem or not, but I certainly have & frankly I’m tired of the nonsense it speaks to:
One Light Bulb at a Time
A physics teacher in high school, once told the students that while one grasshopper on the railroad tracks wouldn’t slow a train very much, a billion of them would. With that thought in mind, read the following, obviously written by a good American.
Good idea…One light bulb at a time…
Check this out. I can verify this because I was in Lowes the other day for some reason and just for the heck of it I was looking at the hose attachments. They were all made in China . The next day I was in Ace Hardware and just for the heck of it I checked the hose attachments there. They were made in USA. Start looking.
In our current economic situation, every little thing we buy or do affects someone else – even their job. So, after reading this email, I think this lady is on the right track. Let’s get behind her!
My grandson likes Hershey’s candy. I noticed, though, that it is marked made in Mexico now. I do not buy it any more.
My favorite toothpaste Colgate is made in Mexico. Now I have switched to Crest. You have to read the labels on everything.
This past weekend I was at Kroger. I needed 60 W light bulbs and Bounce dryer sheets. I was in the light bulb aisle, and right next to the GE brand I normally buy was an off-brand labeled, “Everyday Value.” I picked up both types of bulbs and compared the stats – they were the same except for the price. The GE bulbs were more money than the Everyday Value brand but the thing that surprised me the most was the fact that GE was made in MEXICO and the Everyday Value brand was made in – get ready for this – the USA in a company in Cleveland, Ohio.
So throw out the myth that you cannot find products you use every day that are made right here.
So on to another aisle – Bounce Dryer Sheets. Yep, you guessed it, bounce cost more money and is made in Canada. The Everyday Value brand was less money and MADE IN THE USA! I did laundry yesterday and the dryer sheets performed just like the Bounce Free I have been using for years and at almost half the price!
My challenge to you is to start reading the labels when you shop for everyday things and see what you can find that is made in the USA – the job you save may be your own or your neighbors!
If you accept the challenge, pass this on to others in your address book so we can all start buying American, one light bulb at a time! Stop buying from overseas companies!
We should have awakened a decade ago.
Let’s get with the program help our fellow Americans keep their jobs and create more jobs here in the U.S.A.
Firstly….
Many of the products listed in the note are made it the USA! Hershey’s candy are named after Hershey, PA which is still making the chocolate now (I looked at one at the store & it shows made in the USA).
I also went & looked at GE & Sylvania (just to mark differences) light bulbs. Both brands listed three locations for manufacturing on the boxes: US, Canada & Mexico! Since we don’t have Kroger I can’t verify the “Everyday Value” statements.
Also here is the Colgate roster:
| Colgate Total: Made in U.S.A. | Colgate Fluoride Toothpaste, Kids line: Made in Canada |
| Colgate Baking Soda & Peroxide Whitening with Oxygen Bubbles Fluoride Toothpaste: Made in Mexico |
Colgate Cavity Protection Fluoride Toothpaste: Made in Mexico |
| Colgate 2 in 1 Toothpaste & Mouthwash: Made in the UK | Colgate Sparkling White Fluoride Toothpaste: Mexico |
| Colgate Maximum Strength Sensitive: Made in U.S.A. | Colgate Max Fresh: Made in Made in U.S.A. |
From what the specific boxed items are it is probably easier (though not always cheaper) to manufacture these items outside the US we have very stringent laws on it use/distribution (http://fluoridealert.org/mandatory.html).
So much of this sings of the infamous urban legends that float & bloat the internet (e.g. why were they at Lowes for “some reason”? The only time I would be at a Lowes is to BUY HARDWARE). I also like how the Kroger “Everyday Value” is the best thing to buy (maybe they’re trying to recover from the urban legend where Kroger bans gay music).
I appreciate the “warm & fuzzy” that this creates, but it masks AGAIN the real problem & it’s culprits.
Now this would have been great if it started in the 40s, but to do this now would create more problems than it solves. In todays global economy (sorry sports fans, but we’ve been a global economy since WWII) we are simply unable to produce our own goods…so much so that we rely on those other countries for our most basic goods! To build new or restart manufacturing plants for even the simplest items (please remember to include the governmental, eco bullshit requirements/studies/hearings to just get the ability to see if manufacturing someplace in America is doable) is pretty much cost prohibitive in the United States.
The United States is no longer a manufacturing economy, it is a services economy. Fifteen years ago, the assets of the six largest banks in this country totaled 17 percent of GDP … The assets of the six largest banks in the United States today total 63 percent of GDP!!! GDP by the way is our Gross Domestic Product – the goods & services we produce as a nation!
Plus, what if all the people in Mexico, Canada, China, France, England, Germany, Spain, Russia, India, etc. decided to no longer buy American products? As little as we have, it would cripple our economy…again.
The simple answer is the problem is the “too large to fail corporations.” The American people need to steer all this angst at them. Contrary to popular belief they have not gone away, but gotten larger: http://www.epi.org/economic_snapshots/entry/snapshot_20090909/ and none of the regulations we’ve adopted have slowed them down (it’s actually sped them up in some instances).
If you receive this e-mail PLEASE DELETE RATHER THAN FORWARD!!!!
As Socrates so well said it: “It is better to keep silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.”
OK…I’m jumping off my soapbox now.
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