Tapsearch Com EditorFind something Made in USA is hard to do
by Ray Tapajna
Finding something actually made in the USA is a hard thing to do
SEE: Federal Reserve Chairman told Congress that the best way to stimulate the economy is to buy "domestically produced products" -
He should have said - made in the USA - but there's not that much that is. Letter writers to editors in our newspaper keep writing about buying USA but many are confused about what that really defines these days.
There is a good site that has provides good information at Made i USA. org but it also demonstrates how little there is. The letter writer who gave this link said the solution is simple - If you want Americans to be employed, buy from companies that employ Americans. Unfortunately, even those companies do not stand the test of being made in the USA. Many of our products are just assembled in the USA and the description used these days is primarily the term "built in America" which can mean many things . Today it means that products are only assembled in the USA by workers - making about one-half of what their predecessors once made - from parts made in the slave wage labor markets of the world.
One letter writer says to buy a Honda that is only assembled in Ohio. He also mentions the brand new Kia plants in Georgia and a new Nissan plant in Mississippi and adds - I dont' think any of those guys took a bit of bail out money. This is the mentality of consumers in the USA - Almost every foreign auto maker in the USA was subsidized by the taxpayers and the new jobs paid much less the old ones with more than 400,000 auto workers losing their jobs in the U.S. These were middle class jobs that paid the toll for education and other government services. More than 750,000 jobs related to the steel industry have been lost. In Cleveland, a new Wal-Mart super store sits in the graveyard of a steel industry that once employed thousands workers. Individual states have paid billions of dollars to bring in foreign auto makers. The state of Indiana paid Honda $160 million dollars after all is said and done to bring their assembly plant to their state. It employs only 5,000 workers while 20,000 auto parts workers lost their jobs in Indiana. One state even built an airport for BMW to bring in parts for their new assembly plant.
A headline in our local newspaper tells about a French company coming to Youngstown Ohio to build a plant tha willt employ only 350 workers. Youngstown was once a place where more than 50,000 once made a good living in steel production. My sales contact "bible" that I carried for more than twenty years had more than a 100 companies that employed 5,000 or more workers in our region. Companies that employed only 350 or so were considered to be minor prospects. There were thousands of these companies and they never made any big news. They were taken for granted. Both large and small manufacturers are gone now. Many had a more than fifty years of history but it seemed like they were all flushed down the toilet overnight.
Letter writers are now writing about keeping jobs in the U.S. They are about ten years too late. The jobs are gone and nothing will ever replace them. I started my advocacy for keeping jobs and human dignity in the workplace in 1992 and have been online since 1998. An editorial editor recently congratulated me about my thousands of sites and blogs under Tapsearch Com but the sad thing about it, it looks like I have failed. My Ray Tapajna Chronicles forecasted our economic crisis years ago. And more than ten years later, most of all my blogs and sites are as if they have just been written today. If America was awake, years ago, my blogs and sites would have been obsolete by now.
Sadly the phrase Made in the USA is the thing that is obsolete today.
Finding something actually made in the USA is a hard thing to do
Made in the USA is obsolete term as millions of middle class production jobs fade into the past
SEE: Federal Reserve Chairman told Congress that the best way to stimulate the economy is to buy "domestically produced products" -
He should have said - made in the USA - but there's not that much that is. Letter writers to editors in our newspaper keep writing about buying USA but many are confused about what that really defines these days.
There is a good site that has provides good information at Made i USA. org but it also demonstrates how little there is. The letter writer who gave this link said the solution is simple - If you want Americans to be employed, buy from companies that employ Americans. Unfortunately, even those companies do not stand the test of being made in the USA. Many of our products are just assembled in the USA and the description used these days is primarily the term "built in America" which can mean many things . Today it means that products are only assembled in the USA by workers - making about one-half of what their predecessors once made - from parts made in the slave wage labor markets of the world.
One letter writer says to buy a Honda that is only assembled in Ohio. He also mentions the brand new Kia plants in Georgia and a new Nissan plant in Mississippi and adds - I dont' think any of those guys took a bit of bail out money. This is the mentality of consumers in the USA - Almost every foreign auto maker in the USA was subsidized by the taxpayers and the new jobs paid much less the old ones with more than 400,000 auto workers losing their jobs in the U.S. These were middle class jobs that paid the toll for education and other government services. More than 750,000 jobs related to the steel industry have been lost. In Cleveland, a new Wal-Mart super store sits in the graveyard of a steel industry that once employed thousands workers. Individual states have paid billions of dollars to bring in foreign auto makers. The state of Indiana paid Honda $160 million dollars after all is said and done to bring their assembly plant to their state. It employs only 5,000 workers while 20,000 auto parts workers lost their jobs in Indiana. One state even built an airport for BMW to bring in parts for their new assembly plant.
A headline in our local newspaper tells about a French company coming to Youngstown Ohio to build a plant tha willt employ only 350 workers. Youngstown was once a place where more than 50,000 once made a good living in steel production. My sales contact "bible" that I carried for more than twenty years had more than a 100 companies that employed 5,000 or more workers in our region. Companies that employed only 350 or so were considered to be minor prospects. There were thousands of these companies and they never made any big news. They were taken for granted. Both large and small manufacturers are gone now. Many had a more than fifty years of history but it seemed like they were all flushed down the toilet overnight.
Letter writers are now writing about keeping jobs in the U.S. They are about ten years too late. The jobs are gone and nothing will ever replace them. I started my advocacy for keeping jobs and human dignity in the workplace in 1992 and have been online since 1998. An editorial editor recently congratulated me about my thousands of sites and blogs under Tapsearch Com but the sad thing about it, it looks like I have failed. My Ray Tapajna Chronicles forecasted our economic crisis years ago. And more than ten years later, most of all my blogs and sites are as if they have just been written today. If America was awake, years ago, my blogs and sites would have been obsolete by now.
Sadly the phrase Made in the USA is the thing that is obsolete today.
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