Well Made in the USA
My good buddy MJ over at DyslexicResearch wrote a great post on buying American in a time when America needs to be bought. I couldn’t agree with him more.
However, I’ll add a caveat to that statement. Buy products made in the USA, but don’t buy crap just because it’s made in the USA.
We live in a global economy, and there is nothing the U.S. can do to change that, short of falling victim to isolationism. For too long our country has depended on the buy American crowd to keep industries afloat, without concern or regard for global competition.
The American auto companies are a prime example of putting the company first and the product second. Shoddy manufacturing, a lack of understanding for what the customer actually wants, and lack of oversight on costs result in lack of liquidity, credit, and market share.
Buy American. Buy good, quality American products. They exist everywhere, and MJ has a list of excellent Made in America companies.
However, don’t throw pity to those companies who make second rate products and demand that you buy from them for the sake of the country.
Patriotism and capitalism are very powerful traits that our country was built upon, but they are not interdependent.
No good will come from propping up an American company (or any company for that matter) that can not survive on it’s own in a global marketplace.
If my great country can step up to the plate, produce good quality products that compete with foreign counterparts. There will be no need to ask that our citizens buy American. They just will.
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Couldn’t agree with you more. Why prop up companies that aren’t making the effort to keep themselves propped up by not producing a good quality product. I think American manufacturers owe it to the consumer, but more so, owe it to their employees to produce a good product. I realize there were various factors in the demise of Detroit, but quality was a big one. If they had put more effort in keeping quality on par with some imports, like the imports assembled here in the U.S. have proven to be able to do, more people might have their jobs and the auto bailout may not even have been an issue.
You make a good point, but buying American made products is one of the best ways to fix this economic mess. We need our money to stay in our own nation. We need to support local businesses, local crops and local services. This is not isolationism, it is common sense. We owe it to our children to turn around our manufacturing sector, Otherwise, they will be left to flipping burgers in an impoverished America.
There are tons more information about this and other Buy American topics and discussions at my favorite blog site http://www.AmericanBoom.com/blog, give it a look!