Buy products made in America? oh my this and this made in China

Hmm, there is a bit hard to argue under this discussion though. On one hand, we need to create more jobs for domestic needs, on the other hand, there were full of people who doesn't want to work in the factory, rather, they want get paid through food stamp and other government benefit program. So, what would you think of it? I have seen people on the street asking for money while they are perfectly able to get a job somewhere. I am not defending those Corporate American outsourcing our jobs elsewhere, but look at our people, would they rather take on some menial jobs and pay for what they basic needs rather panhandling?

Oh I know it, Hatley. I wouldn't even be surprised if your peanut butter were made in China. Some is you know. They outsource this work and pay the people a quarter of what they would have to pay us. I understand that it saves the corps. money but it puts Americans out of work. I think they should be required to hire so many Amaricans here for the same jobs they are outsourcing...a compromise so to speak. Those people count on those jobs too. The big companies are saving a ton of money by outsourcing but are they really passing those savings on to us? I'm not sure.

I learned a few years ago, if you want to buy something made in America, you have to do some research..Sad isn't it???

We were shopping the other day at a thrift store where I came across and old ice cream scoop. It is the one that most of the ice cream parlors used years ago and still use in some places. It has a button to push that pushes the ice cream out of the scoop. Well we bought it and when I got it in the car I decided to check out where it was made. I figured that it would have been made in the USA as my Mom had one while we were growing up, I also had one till it broke. Well it is sad to say it was not made in the United States. It was made in Tawain. So I would say that many products have been being made over seas for over 50 years or more. It is so very hard to find products that are made here in the states. If find if I do find something I would like that it is out of my price range.

The one thing that's opened my eyes more than anything else is the realisation that it isn't just the UK where practically everything is made in China. Not for the first time has an American mentioned the fact that a lot of their things are made in China that used to be made there. Roundabout me is my Microsoft (American Corporation right?) wireless keyboard and mouse, made in China. My Sony speakers and Compaq monitor are also made in China. Our Sky modem is made in China, it doesn't say where our landline telephone is made but I can guess.. Oh, and the Airwick Freshmatic has "Made in China" on the back of it. At least our television is made in..er...Slovakia but I know we used to have a fairly healthy television manufacturing base here in the UK. Because of our demand for higher wages (which is our right, in my opinion) the likes of China has stepped in. I do think there will be an uprising in China eventually because the workers will realise that being paid a pittance isn't good. Then we may get a situation whereby each country is self-sufficient in their own goods and services. Oh, well, I can dream can't I?

I was just having a discussion the other night with a friend about the number of items that are made overseas but sold in America. The only thing we could come up with is the wages overseas are so much cheaper than ours. I didn't realize that so much of our food is made overseas. Makes a person wonder.

People joke about the only true way to support American business men is to shop at yard sales and I forget where else. It is hard, but I keep reading that if we will look we can find things in the store Made in America, and often they cost less than the competitors. I am glad your snacks are made in America.

Didn't we already discuss this? I had seen a news spot about this and posted a discussion. Alot of things are made in Indonesia now also. President Obama covered this in his speak. To give corporations tax insentives to bring work back to America. I certainly hope it happens.

Hi Hatley, I can feel the same, that there are too many things around us are made from China. Someone have done an experiment try to live without any product made in China, he ended up have to take off everything including his last piece of clothes. So, imagine how many products are made in China, and how deep it penetrate into every countries in the world. Sometime, when a highly developed country also will have their side effect, the cost of living also increase, and of course people there will earn higher salary and that causes a higher labor cost and thus, that causes manufacture move to a cheaper labor cost country in order to get a higher profit margin. If you were to compare America and China, any manufacturer that targeted on profit will definitely choose China as their production base instead of America, where in China they might be able to get the profit margin as high as 30% and may be in America only 10%.

I don't care if the things that are around me are made in China as long as they are of good quality. But I'm afraid some of them are of poor quality. They are made only for profit, without taking care of the quality and the satisfaction of the client. What amuses me is the label on the Chinese products. I bought some socks made in China and their label said they were made from 100% cotton and 5% polyamide.

Now,china have become the "world factory",and have been fatally polluted by the three wastes.The Gov. earned the profit leaving envirnment poisoned.I prefer a clean water to rich Gov.

i know!! this baffles me too constantly. i mean i'm from the UK and growing up everything had "made in the uk" stamped to the bottom of it.. and now its all "made in china" "made in taiwan [or however you spell it]" lol! it is funny.. but i just think, with the technology and workforce available in china, it wouldn't be economical to manufacture things anywhere else. they can be made so cheaply and quick;ly in china, that apart from the shipping cost, companies make more money selling it on at a higher cost nowadays :)

I hate how everything is made overseas. When I was little, I tried to find clothes that weren't made in China. The results? I had one pair of shoes that were made in Tiawan. And just last month, I picked up a U.S. flag decoration, and it was made in China. That's crossing the line.

Products of US, i thinks its original or genuine, but from china is disposable. If you want from China it is cheap but no guarantee of lasting.

Hiya Hatley...I so agree with you...just TRY and find anything made in the USA...like duh? Seems we can't even make light bulbs anymore, not even one's under the American company GE. Then people wonder why so many people are unemployed here, when the jobs are being given overseas, especially China, and even when products ARE made in USA, perhaps the "parts" are made in China (like car parts) What's worse is that all too many products made in China are of inferior quality...the use of toxic paint for example for children's toys. I'm getting genuinely surprised when I pick up some product and it's actually made in America!

Most everything we have is made in another country. I was most surprised years ago when I was in an electronics class. Even the American brand televisions, when they were opened up, were entirely foreign made. We have been buyers instead of makers for a long time now. It is going to be hard and take a little while to start being producers again.

Hi Hatley.. Whoa..!! I guess many Americans will be pretty annoyed with this fact. I agree with you that most of the products we use are from countries like China, Korea, Japan, India or Taiwan. I'll take this as an opportunity to disclose some facts which may help in changing peoples point of view about outsourcing. I read an article about conversation between Obama and Apple's CEO Steve Jobs when the President joined the Silicon valley luminaries for dinner. The following is an excerpt from that article. The heading of the article being "How the US lost out on doing iPhone work" Yes the iphone you use is also NOT a complete made in America product. About 70 million iPhones, 30 million iPads and 59 million other products Apple sold last year were manufactured overseas. Why can't that work come back home? Obama asked. Steve's reply was unambiguous. "Those jobs aren't coming back" he said, according to one of the dinner guests. He gave his reasons as- "It isn't just that workers are cheaper abroad. Rather Apple's executives believe the vast scale of overseas factories as well as the flexibility, diligence and industrial skills of foreign workers have so outpaced their American counterpart that 'Made n USA' is no longer a viable option for most Apple products". Apple's executives say that going overseas, at this point, is their only option. One former executive described how the company relied in a Chinese factory to revamp the iPhone manufacturing just weeks before the device was due on shelves. Apple had made a last minute change in the design of the screen, forcing an assembly line overhaul. New screen began arriving the plant near midnight. A foreman immediately roused 8,000 workmen inside the company's dormitories, gave them a biscuit and a cup of tea, guided them to workstation and within half an hour started a 12 hour shift fitting screens into beveled frames. In 96 hours, the plant was producing 10,000 iPhones a day. The executive said "The speed and the flexibility is breath taking and there's no American plant that can match that". If its wasn't for outsourcing, those products we use on daily basis wouldn't have been that cheap. We commoners do complain about the policies companies are adopting to withstand the cut throat competition but the fact is that we don't have even the slightest idea about "How to run a company in the current market scenario". I hope you get what I want to communicate...

dear Hatley, This is true. Even Chocolate products are made from China :( I remember my younger days- shopping and going to imported section where chocolates are made from US. Now,I can hardly find any :( Where are all the US companies gone? Transported to China?

There was a comic strip that I saw years ago where the store owner decided to get rid of everything that was made in China. The result was that there was nothing but cobwebs on the shelves. Sadly, that seems to be the nature of the beast. It seems like everything is made in China and those things that are not made in China, are not in America. The glass I'm currently drinking milk out of right now for example is made in Thailand. Obviously that is going to be rather cheaper for corporations but it does seem to be more obvious. Just so many things made in other countries. The United States seems to make very little it turns out. The outsourcing of manufacturing has been obvious for many years and the outsourcing of other things is getting to be horrifying is well.

Haaaa! I know! Can you imagine how expensive your modem would be if it were made in America? The US can outsource work at slave labor wages and makes everything WALMART cheap. I can't even talk to an American when I call customer service for our Internet service. We get somebody over in India. They go by scripts and can't really help you so when we go around in circles I ask to speak to an American and I guess I get switched back here. It's just dumb.