When was the last time you bought a suitcase that did not rip the first time you brought it on a plane. How many jackets do you have that the zipper is broken on them? My son has more toys that are made in China that break so easily that they seem like one day throw a way’s.
America has the best engineers and yet they ship their plans to countries with no quality control to make products that are inferior. America’s factories are closing and the goods made overseas are substandard. Why? Why is there not an uproar?
Cheap labor equals cheap goods and it means more losses of American jobs. The economy will never be where we want it to be until we as a people stop and think it through.
Many of us in America have been conned into believing that products made in America either do not exist anymore, or are somehow inferior to foreign products. This kind of consumer manipulation is causing many of our product manufacturers to either go out of business or file bankruptcy. As a result of this, much of our quality American-made products are becoming virtually impossible to find in our stores. People need to realize that the power of maintaining our work force in America is not in the hands of our elected politicians, but this awesome power is ultimately in the hands of the American consumer - period. If our stores and businesses don't comply to our demand by making American-made products available for the consumer, we should simply refuse to buy from them at all.
Now is the time for us to begin to think, "America First," by insisting that our stores sell domestically made products. By just checking the labels of each product of purchase or simply asking store employees to point out products that are made in America we would immediately begin to see the magnitude of our power as consumers. Our companies would begin hiring again, American jobs would begin to return, foreclosures would again become the exception instead of the rule, and prosperity would again come to our cities and communities. The future of our great country depends on our power to maintain our manufacturing base.
America is not only the land of the free and the home of the brave, it is also the land of opportunity for our children. We must put aside our zeal to purchase the cheapest or least costly products, and realize that when we buy "American made," we not only contribute to American jobs, but also to the fabric of future generations. We must begin to ask ourselves, what is more important, buying the least costly products or saving our country from being acquired by foreign governments?
We all know that the primary reason that foreign-made products are cheaper than American-made products is because there are virtually no labor laws in these countries at all. People in labor markets in these countries are subjected to "sweatshops," or slave labor, working in deplorable conditions in locked buildings which are subsidized by their governments.
We have the power to change the fate of manufacturing in America if we stand together and demand to be once again given the option of buying products made in the U.S. I for one do not want my grandchildren to be faced with the prospect of living in the United States of China. We have the power to change the course of America's future if we have the will. Have you or one of your relatives lost a job? Do you know someone personally who has lost his or her job? If so, then remember that when you buy a foreign-made product that you have contributed to the loss of American jobs. Remember our motto, "Out of Many One." Has the meaning of these words changed in the 21st century? Are we no longer in the thing together? Have we become simply individuals in a global economy? Buy American-made products and help save our economy. Insist that your community businesses buy and sell products made in America.
Competition is great as long as the wages are fair for all. When competition is fair American companies can compete with any country anywhere, whether in quality, quantity or cost, even with foreign governments' subsidies. American manufacturers make the greatest products in the world, when the playing field is leveled. Unfair labor practices by foreign governments have jaded world trade and has undermined trade agreements everywhere.
When we place our trust in God and come together as one nation there is no obstacle that Americans cannot overcome
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