Comments on: Made in the USA! http://countrylife.lehmans.com/2009/07/04/made-in-the-usa/ Your online simplicity village Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:37:36 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: lilybed http://countrylife.lehmans.com/2009/07/04/made-in-the-usa/comment-page-1/#comment-1090 lilybed Fri, 07 Aug 2009 16:27:05 +0000 http://countrylife.lehmans.com/?p=2744#comment-1090 Don't give up. It is very important to encourage buying made in USA products. People who purchase cheaper, imported products instead are essentially selling out their country. The internet makes it easier to search out made in USA products. Also, buy domestic produce. I only buy foods from USA. READ THE LABELS. Everything even clothing and toys could have a lead content. Check drugstore items, again simply read the labels, please it is worth the time...woman's products, baby diapers, shampoos, skin lotions, school supplies...check the country of origin. Call the companies who make your favorite products if you are unsure, and tell them you need to know if their products are made in USA. Be counted! Write your representatives in Washington to tell them how you feel. We need more citizens voicing their opinion and shopping "made in USA." Tell your friends and shop Lehman's! Thank you, Lehman's, for encouraging a vital national effort. Sincerely, HomeGrownTomatoes Don’t give up. It is very important to encourage buying made in USA products. People who purchase cheaper, imported products instead are essentially selling out their country. The internet makes it easier to search out made in USA products. Also, buy domestic produce. I only buy foods from USA. READ THE LABELS. Everything even clothing and toys could have a lead content. Check drugstore items, again simply read the labels, please it is worth the time…woman’s products, baby diapers, shampoos, skin lotions, school supplies…check the country of origin. Call the companies who make your favorite products if you are unsure, and tell them you need to know if their products are made in USA. Be counted! Write your representatives in Washington to tell them how you feel. We need more citizens voicing their opinion and shopping “made in USA.” Tell your friends and shop Lehman’s! Thank you, Lehman’s, for encouraging a vital national effort. Sincerely, HomeGrownTomatoes

]]> By: tractorman http://countrylife.lehmans.com/2009/07/04/made-in-the-usa/comment-page-1/#comment-1082 tractorman Wed, 29 Jul 2009 10:51:41 +0000 http://countrylife.lehmans.com/?p=2744#comment-1082 It is a terrible thing that "Made In The U.S.A." is gone and the American people have oppted for a cheaper shovel, We have traded almost everything that made America for two pennies on the dollar. Shame on us. Now we have to deal with it. and I am no less to blame. every purchace I make of imported goods is more capital they need to produce more, because a U.S.A. made version may not exsist. Many factors relate to success and failure, they capitalized on them, we did not. It is a terrible thing that “Made In The U.S.A.” is gone and the American people have oppted for a cheaper shovel, We have traded almost everything that made America for two pennies on the dollar. Shame on us. Now we have to deal with it. and I am no less to blame. every purchace I make of imported goods is more capital they need to produce more, because a U.S.A. made version may not exsist. Many factors relate to success and failure, they capitalized on them, we did not.

]]> By: LandonStevens http://countrylife.lehmans.com/2009/07/04/made-in-the-usa/comment-page-1/#comment-1080 LandonStevens Mon, 27 Jul 2009 16:44:34 +0000 http://countrylife.lehmans.com/?p=2744#comment-1080 Hi Galen- It is very important to me to buy US-made items whenever I can. Unfortunately, as you have found, we often do not have a choice. So I have developed a purchasing pecking order, if you will. USA products first. Then products from other countries. As a last resort I buy items from China. It’s not that I have anything against the Chinese people. I just feel that China, the country, has the worst record as a global trading partner, the worst record in worker safety and rights, and the worst environmental record. Once we add in the costs associated with the polluted air and water they produce, the costs of their routine practice of dumping products on the global market, and the cost of a disabled, Chinese worker or two, then suddenly a $22.95 set of skillets from China is not so cheap anymore. But even more important is that I believe we support our neighbors when we buy domestically produced items. If it costs me more to buy things that help feed, cloth, and house my neighbor, then so be it, because that is something I know I am supposed to do. --LS Hi Galen-

It is very important to me to buy US-made items whenever I can. Unfortunately, as you have found, we often do not have a choice. So I have developed a purchasing pecking order, if you will. USA products first. Then products from other countries. As a last resort I buy items from China. It’s not that I have anything against the Chinese people. I just feel that China, the country, has the worst record as a global trading partner, the worst record in worker safety and rights, and the worst environmental record. Once we add in the costs associated with the polluted air and water they produce, the costs of their routine practice of dumping products on the global market, and the cost of a disabled, Chinese worker or two, then suddenly a $22.95 set of skillets from China is not so cheap anymore.

But even more important is that I believe we support our neighbors when we buy domestically produced items. If it costs me more to buy things that help feed, cloth, and house my neighbor, then so be it, because that is something I know I am supposed to do.

–LS

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