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LibbyLA · 10-17-2011, 08:49 PM

I make fabric postcards that I send whenever I need a card, so all of my cards are made in the USA...by me

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w6pea · 10-17-2011, 09:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Wayne M

If it's made in Canada, it's made in America

And remember, if it's made in Mexico, it's made in America.

Now if it has to say "Made in U.S.A.," well, that's different.

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Fred1609 · 10-17-2011, 11:20 PM

guess where 25 percent of oil in the US comes from......Canada

DonavonP · 10-18-2011, 06:36 AM

We have Canadians streaming over our borders here in Minnesota. They spend money like crazy and sad to say, they seem like nice people. Disgusting!!! At least they should say "about" with in "Minnesotan" NOT "aboot".

hondo122 · 10-18-2011, 06:45 AM

The people of Mexico that make things for US consumption are not coming here and spending our education and health care dollars, and are north American citizens, just a thought.

donandmax · 10-18-2011, 07:09 AM

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Originally Posted by frankdamp

I assume you mean vehicles purchased by the State government, Mr. D. We've bought Japanese (Toyota and two Hondas) and Korean (a Kia Sedona) the last four times. We lived in Bothell when we got the Camry ('85), in Everett when we got the Accord and Odyssey (both 95's, the Odyssey bought used) and in Anacortes when we bought the Sedona ('03).

In every case, as a former autometive and aerospace engineer, I couldn't live with the cheap crap the US manufacturers were trying to sell in that time frame. We did have a '79 Chevette as a second car - least said soonest mended. That one was traded for the Camry.

The '90 Mercury Sable we got was the biggest pile of junk I ever owned - even worse than my 1958 DKW, my 1962 MG1100, my 1968 Rover 2000, my 1990 (?) Renault 18i or my daughter's Renault Alliance.

It appears that the US manufacturers are getting wise. It helps that a former Boeing exec now runs Ford, but I'm still sceptical that "Fix It Again Tony" can really make Chrysler well again..

You took the words right out of my mouth. Well said..

donandmax · 10-18-2011, 07:13 AM

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Originally Posted by DonavonP

We have Canadians streaming over our borders here in Minnesota. They spend money like crazy and sad to say, they seem like nice people. Disgusting!!! At least they should say "about" with in "Minnesotan" NOT "aboot".

Never met a Canadian I didnt like.

Now how aboot that !!

Monacoach · 10-18-2011, 07:23 AM

I usually buy the cheapest item on the shelf. I dont care where its made because we live in a world economy. We buy theres and they buy ours.

bsirby · 10-18-2011, 07:23 AM

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Originally Posted by DonavonP

We have Canadians streaming over our borders here in Minnesota. They spend money like crazy and sad to say, they seem like nice people. Disgusting!!! At least they should say "about" with in "Minnesotan" NOT "aboot".

I would bet Canadians spend more money in the US, (which by the way helps us) than we spend in Canada. The big corporations are not moving to Canada, they are moving to China, Thailand, etc. Big difference!

TechWriter · 10-18-2011, 07:28 AM

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Originally Posted by bsirby

I would bet Canadians spend more money in the US, (which by the way helps us) than we spend in Canada. The big corporations are not moving to Canada, they are moving to China, Thailand, etc. Big difference!

So the "big difference" is . . . mileage?

bsirby · 10-18-2011, 07:35 AM

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Originally Posted by TechWriter

So the "big difference" is . . . mileage?

LOL I didn't get my wording right did I?

My point was the corporations are moving their factorys overseas for cheap labor, and alot of times cheaply made products, not to Canada. I don't usually see too many products made in Canada, but would buy them before buying made in China. Of course I try to buy only made in the USA, but it is not always possible.

jablair · 10-18-2011, 07:51 AM

The real problem is not with China anymore than with Canada, Mexico or Japan. The real problem is with our own Politicians and the Political Establishment! They are the ones that have created excessive spending supported by excessive debt! It is they who have given us an ever growing bureaucracy with higher pay and benefits which greatly exceed the private sector. More and more regulation and restrictions and longer and longer delays in actually getting any project off the drawing board and into construction. In short it is they who have chosen to strangle the goose that lays the 'Golden Eggs'. Which is the American Taxpayer and American Industry, for those who still have not yet figured that one out!

TechWriter · 10-18-2011, 07:54 AM

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Originally Posted by bsirby

I don't usually see too many products made in Canada, but would buy them before buying made in China.

Why? What's the diff?

RJay · 10-18-2011, 08:49 AM

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Originally Posted by bsirby

I don't usually see too many products made in Canada, but would buy them before buying made in China.

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Originally Posted by TechWriter

Why? What's the diff?

TechWriter, by changing the font of bsirby's quoted post are you trying to imply you are biased against China? Are you implying bsirby is biased? Be careful how you quote someone's post.