And thats how they have us by the balls, so to speak.

I'm poor as hell, but I will NOT give my son anything made in China. As for myself, I could care less. But I want to make sure he is safe and healthy, but thats my job!

just by chance I happened to go to Target yesterday. I swear
I do not work at Target.

I checked the food prices, which is pretty much the only thing i buy, and they were comparable.

the only thing missing was the dirt, masses of people, and workers who couldnt speak english.

i go to a "high end" store to purchase meat & chicken, i will not eat the pre-packaged stuff from the discount-boxes. but from now on iam going to Target.

just find something else besides wal-mart - the place is bad.

The problem is that Americans at large don't know anything about money. If I had a bone to pick with democracy, that'd be it... the people who are up to their eyeballs in debt are voting in people whose sole profession is porkbarreling.

Rich people don't buy expensive products because they're flashy.

Let me rephrase that, old money doesn't. They know what works, they buy what works. That's why they have money. If you're afraid of paying lawyers and accountants, your butt will be exposed. If you buy el cheapo tools at the dollar store, you'll be back later to buy it again and if you buy cheap food, you'll be eating over-salted, over-greased crap because they cheaped out.

again, it is the same thinking types of people who are at the actual heads of the retail industry who cause the problems. That is the people who are trying to make the most profit for the least amount of actual physical labor they them selves have to provide. The whole monetary system is so big, I really don't believe we can single out a certain store and fix much, if anything. The people in charge of the money flow will just finance someone else to do their dirty work for them.

I used to work at Target and the food prices are NOT comparable. At least not around here. When I made 26 dollars an hour, I refused to shop at Walmart. Now that I'm making 12 dollars an hour, I do most of my shopping at Walmart or No Frills. As far as it goes here, the walmart stores have been very clean and I've had no trouble with employees not speaking english. The Target stores have just as many people in them as the Walmarts. If I want home decor or kitchenwares, then target is a bit better than Walmart. But I'll still won't get groceries there unless I want the chocolate fat free milk.

i think a huge problem is that america has lost it's
manufacturing base.

almost nothing is manufactured here anymore. We cant even manufacture a hairdryer !!!! I look around my place and everything, and i don mean everything, is foreign.

yes toyota & nissan are assembled here in america, but where do
the profits go ?????

Japan & Korea - for the most part.

yes i know bmw & mercedes - but that is different - these products tend to be high-end so percentage-wise they represent
the top 5% car sells ???

THE SCARY PART TO ME IS THAT THE ONLY THING AMERICA HAS LEFT TO SELL IS IT'S LAND.


moondark - come visit me in Texas, you will feel like you are not in the United States. not an opinion, a fact.

WHAT ELSE IS THERE ???

Here is a way we can for certain not help anyone do anything bad, go be a hermit in the wilderness!

A large part of the most expensive real estate in the country is presently held by foreigners

http://www.stillmadeinusa.com/
http://www.madeinusa.com/
http://www.usstuff.com/
http://www.americansworking.com/
http://www.usab2c.com/
http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2007/09/19/made-in-the-u-s-a-what-products-are-still-made-in-america/
http://www.buyamerican.com/
http://www.homemadeinamerica.com/
http://www.devvy.com/made_inthe_usa.html
http://www.nmoa.org/bestusa/
http://www.madeinamericaretailstore.com/
http://www.redbookmag.com/recipes-home/tips-advice/made-in-america
http://www.exclusivelygreenmarket.com/catalog/Made_In_America_Pet_Products-65-1.html
http://www.bestamericanbuy.com/cart/
http://madeinusaforever.com/

Try googling a product that you're interested in, plus "Made in America" before shopping.

We also have to think about our strategic allies, China has irritated nearly as many nations as we have. South Korea and Japan have an evonomic rivalry that could be used to our advantage. We can't forget our Canadian neighbors, either.

this comes directly from the

www.bloggingstocks.com/2007/09/19/made-in-the-u-s-a-
what-products-are-still-made-in-america/

website.

IAM SUPPOSED TO GET EXCITED FROM THIS ???

GOD, MAKE ME ANOTHER MARTIN




So what are the choices for those who want to buy products made in the U.S.A.?

It's surprisingly difficult to find companies that actually make their products in America. For instance, you might think that Anheuser Busch Companies (NYSE: BUD) brews its beer in the U.S. However, while it has many plants in the U.S., it also brews in Japan, China and Germany. Hasbro Inc. (NYSE: HAS) makes its Monopoly board game in Waterford, Ireland, not in the U.S. And Wrangler jeans for the U.S. market are manufactured in Central America and Mexico.

I started off looking at companies on the Made in America site -- a show on the Travel Channel. This led me to a long list of companies. While many of the names on this list are headquartered in the U.S., many make some if not all of their products in other countries (to find out, I simply did a Google search on 'where is [product name] manufactured,' which usually led to relevant information on the topic). I decided to strike those names from the list I would write about and focus only on those companies that were fairly well-known brands which as far as I could tell actually made their products in the USA.

With the holiday shopping season nearly upon us, here's a list of 22 products which are made in America:

*
Toys: Crayola's Silly Putty (Easton, PA)
* Cosmetics: Burt's Bees (Durham, NC)
* Cosmetics: Merle Norman Cosmetics (Los Angeles, CA)
* Toys: Slinky Toys (Hollidaysburg, PA)
* Candles: Yankee Candles (South Deerfield, MA)
* Teddy Bears: Vermont Teddy Bear Company (Burlington, VT)
* Jeans: Union Jean Company (Arcanum, OH)
* Playing Cards: United States Playing Card Company (Cincinnati, OH)
* Outdoor Gear: Cabela's, Inc. (NYSE: CAB) (Sydney, Nebraska)
* Sound Systems: B&K Components (Buffalo, NY)
* Carbon Bicycles: Aegis Bicycles (Camden, ME)
* Boots: Red Wing Shoes (Red Wing, MN)
* House Tools: Stride Tool Inc. (Glenwillow, OH)
* Handbags: Unique Bag and Design (Akron. OH)
* Women's Baseball Caps: Madcapz (Chicago, IL)
* Plastic Boxes : Oppenheim Plastics Co. (Saddle River, NJ)
* Appliances: KitchenAid Appliances (Benton, MI) (manufactured in Ohio, Mississippi; Arkansas; Tennessee; and Indiana).
* Baskets: Longaberger Baskets (Dresden, OH)
* Kitchen cabinets: Merillat Industries (Adrian, MI) (manufactured in 11 U.S. plants)
* Paper supplies: Mrs. Grossman's Paper Company (Petaluma, CA)
* Louisville Slugger Baseball Bats: Hillerich & Bradsby Company (Louisville, KY)
* Clothing: Pendleton Woolen Mills (Portland, OR)

Do you have other Made In America suggestions? Please comment below!

Update: Thanks to all the commenters for adding new suggestions to the list and for pointing out that some of the ones I listed may not belong. Since Cabela's is a mail order catalog and does not make any products itself, we included it on the list although they are importing products made elsewhere. I stand corrected on Red Wing shoes -- it makes all but a few casual shoes and boots in China so I would take it off this list.


NOTHING IS MADE IN AMERICA ANYMORE !!!

It seems a lot of people don't like the fact that Walmart sells mostly items made in China.. What about the other things Walmart does.. such as not making it possible for most of it's employees to get health insurance so they are on government assistance for it? plus the average Walmart employee makes $13k a year.. Could they afford it anway? A class action lawsuit by 69,000 employees that were forced to work off the clock without pay...Deleting time from employees time cards.. Class action lawsuits for discrimination against women.. federal allegations it used illegal immigrants to clean its stores.. Right now there is 26,699,678 square feet of empty Walmarts wasting space in the US... Walmart imported $18billion from China in 2004..

My brother the machinist might disagree with you on that. So would my Father, the natural gas engineer; my mother, the farmer and my uncle, the woodworker.

my son was "made in America"

Lots of things are made here you just have to look around and shop local craftsman and artisans as well as support your farmers markets and mom n pop stores.

This is the Capitol Steps version of the classic song, "American Pie".

http://blip.fm/profile/ZachsMind/blip/1080733

Actually most of the food seems to come from Canada. Almost all of La Choy and lots of the Conagra stuff. Pasta noodles especially.

Have you ever worked for one of those small stores or shopped in them? Especially in smaller towns that can't support a Wal-Mart by themselves? The small store has to pay more to have the product shipped to them, therefore there is less profit. Less profit, means they have to pay lower wages compared to the Wal-Mart (Or Target, Or Kroger-brand Grocery store, etc.). When the store owner can go to Wal-Mart and buy it off the shelf for less than he can get from the distributor, it may be time to admit that the small store isn't viable any more.

Maruchan Ramen noodles are made in the USA.

That is because Americans expect to get paid so much for their work that their products are not affordable

that's why Japanese cars are better, and all our products come from other countries. Especially electronics

I was reading yesterday about the big scandal in China. THEY are outsourcing all their jobs to Viet Nam because the Chinese have modernized and westernized their economy so much that they can't afford the Chinese labor force

Watched it. It had some good points. Too bad no one realizes the same thing goes on at Target and K-Mart too.

I dated a girl who went from Wal-Mart to Target. They treated her worse, and she's now out of retail all together.