Is anything made in America?

[CNCadmin]

Is it me or is everything being make in china, now Levis jeans are being made in China. Oh well no more Levis for me!

[Rekd]

I know my son was made in the good 'ol US of A

'Rekd

[anoel]

What is really funny is that it seems like everyone in every other part of the world complains that they can't get anything and that we have easy access to it all... You'd think that with so much of our industrial parts being made internationally there would be an abundance of parts elsewhere.

[CNCadmin]

My problem is that I'm not employed, I was laid off and work is getting harder to come buy when everything is going overseas.

[Rekd]

Paul, the economy is on it's way back up, hold tight, something will come along.

'Rekd

[bb99]

This is a jobless recovery! I'm in the software industry and I see our jobs moving off shore. With all us Americans out of work, who's going to buy the Levi's?

--bb99

[CNCadmin]

Even customer support is done in India, for support of US customers.

[whiteriver]

Tonight on the news. 300,000+ people gave up looking for work last month. Only 1000 new jobs created last month. Mostly in the retail and foodservice industries. Didn't say how many were lost. Did say last year was the 3rd year in a row with more lost jobs than created(i think thats how it went) Worst case in over 60 years. Sounds like we are still in a depression.
I wish I governmet would get into gear and pass a energy buget. It should have been passed back in October. But I guess they decided it was more important to go on vacation than work. My business depends on that budget. Havent had work in 2 months.
Guess its more important to rebuild other contries than fix our own.

Donny

[Ken_Shea]

The American consumer is to a large part responsible for this off shore catastrophe we are in. We will not pay the price that companies must have to make a profit from their ever-increasing expense to produce a product. They are after all in business to make a profit. It is not a company’s obligation to raise us, feed us, retire us, care for us, provide an education for us and all the other factors America thinks companies ought to do for them. America has no reasonable priorities, I see it every day here at my store when they will pay $500 for a new gun and in the next breath tells how bad their employer is taking advantage of them or complain that they just had to spend $200 to get their cars brakes fixed. Who needs a $500 gun? While saying they cannot afford the price of food, gas or the cost to repair their car. America has lost sight of reality. We have asked for it and now we are getting it.

My motto and advice for our world is “Stop Global Whining”

For all the readers who the above statement is going to anger, I ask…. Is it not true? Certainly not in all cases but in most.

Ken

[Rekd]

Originally posted by Ken_Shea The American consumer is to a large part responsible for this off shore catastrophe we are in. We will not pay the price that companies must have to make a profit from their ever-increasing expense to produce a product. They are after all in business to make a profit. It is not a company’s obligation to raise us, feed us, retire us, care for us, provide an education for us and all the other factors America thinks companies ought to do for them. America has no reasonable priorities, I see it every day here at my store when they will pay $500 for a new gun and in the next breath tells how bad their employer is taking advantage of them or complain that they just had to spend $200 to get their cars brakes fixed. Who needs a $500 gun? While saying they cannot afford the price of food, gas or the cost to repair their car. America has lost sight of reality. We have asked for it and now we are getting it. My motto and advice for our world is “Stop Global Whining” For all the readers who the above statement is going to anger, I ask…. Is it not true? Certainly not in all cases but in most. Ken

[list=a][*]49% of America's 'poor' are home owners.[*]57% of America's 'poor' have air conditioning.[*]76% of America's 'poor' live in a home with 2 rooms per person![/list=a]

To me, this seems a bit out of context in that America's 'poor' are not poor at all. Hell, if a pan-handler can make $10.00/hr begging for money...

'Rekd

[anoel]

My company is huge, I work in their IT department, we've got approximately 5,000 IT employees in my building alone. We do a lot of our own in-house development for about any major system that you can think of. The last few years we've been contracting out a lot of development companies from India. India is making a big dent in the business software industry. They do a good job and are very timely. India has been educating their people in a very viable field. We don't under pay the offshore developers so it's not like the sweat shops of the past and we still hire regularly for domestic developers. I think that Timely deliverables is the key to why we keep going back to India.

[DaSigntist]

You go in Wal-Mart and what do you see but signs that say "KEEP AMERICA WORKING" as you check out with all your "made in China" crap........Hmmm.