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Originally Posted by BonzoHansen
It has nothing to do with pride. You will find most people are full of it. They talk the talk, but when it comes to brass tax, they buy based on their wallet.
How many people here willingly spend an extra 20% on an item because it is made in the USA, or to support a mom & pop over a super center, or buy from a site (any site, not just this one) sponsor instead of the summits of the world?
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i do. i search out companies and products that are made in the US. now, if i can't find one, then what am i to do? go without just so i don't buy foreign? sometimes i do. it all depends on what it is and how badly i need it.
perfect example is piecing together a computer system. while i can get a processor and board made in the US, none of the other stuff is made here. and then what is considered legacy and what is considered state of the art, and what they want to include on their board and what they delete. one of the reasons i bought the SCSI hard drive is that at least the technology is still there. try pluggin an ATA hard drive into one of the newer boards... not supported. not to mention that none of this stuff is available as made in the US.
one of the reasons why i have decided to support edelcrap is because they are still made in the US. their blanks may come from another country, but that is raw material as opposed to the workmanship and craftsmanship of the stuff made in the USA.
i no longer shop at 7-11, once i found out that the parent company (Southland Corp) is 60% owned by foreign interests. i worked for them for a while back in the '90s when they were still 100% US, as a cleanup manager (went into stores run by franchisees after they walked off to clean the store up for the next franchisee). i never would have thought that they would have sold out to the japs.