Comments on: Biden: Deal near on stimulus plan

By: bryan mcclellan

bryan mcclellan — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Stimulus and Reform,

Sounds like bend over and don’t let us hear you bitch about it Mr and Mrs Taxpayer.

If the stupid bastards would shut down the junk tidal wave of inferior products from China and return this countries manufacturing base to half of it’s former strength we just might be able to work our way out.

There are many measures that can be taken but until these pecker heads stop pandering to overseas interests we will drown in the ceaseless deluge of cheap crap and potentially poisonous products from the far east while waving goodbye to the coming generations future.

Buy American made, whatever it is, if you can find it. We can create the market for American products by our refusal to purchase from the clearing houses of crap.

Stand up, support our workers, or lay down and be cursed by your descendants.

By: Carl Nemo

Carl Nemo — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Sound advice Bryan, but rest assured these faux rescuers although possibly well-intentioned with their bailout schemes shouldn’t even be allowed to handle the disbursement of U.S. tax dollars.

They have no respect for money or even what it takes to make an honest buck. They’re simply entrenched, flim flam bureaucrats and are the ones that have gotten us in this mess to begin with via their love affair with outsourcing along with the granting of an endless supply of H1-B visa’s that enable offshore personnel to staff many if not most of America’s better paying, hi-tech jobs at lower wage and benefit scales compared to our citizens…!

The low-skilled labor intensive jobs were filled by illegals from south of the border, again with their complicity; ie., their “eyes wide shut” concerning immigration law enforcement… : |

Carl Nemo **==

By: acf

acf — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I agree that American made products are hard to find. There’s a reason for that. Manufacturing has been outsourced offshore. Companies looking to cut costs moved their manufacturing offshore because the labor costs there are a tiny fraction of what US costs are. Less costs….more profit. Also, we are largely driven by price. It’s the reason why we shop at sales. It’s also why Walmart and Target do well, while Macy’s and Nordstrom’s struggle to find a niche willing to pay their prices. As long as the American consumer feels he has to make his purchase choices based heavily on price, things are not going to change. I’m sorry the worker at the plant that makes XYZ widgets lost his job because I chose the lower cost one made in Maylasia, but I have limited dollars to spend, and I can’t afford the American made one, when I can find it. What’s worse, I don’t have a solution to the problem. I only know I can’t afford to be generous to help the American factory worker no matter what the long term implications are.

By: erika morgan

erika morgan — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Why is it Government’s job to prop up American business? As a manufacturer of quality, I can tell you quality will sell in the end. People waste money on the cheap product, it breaks, they have a yen for what it promised to do, eventually they get the well built quality product that can do the job for them.

To do some Xmas shopping I went into a FredMeyer, the check out line went from the garden section to the food section. Once I had taken scene in, I went across the street to a small bulk foods health food store, the owner and his parents helped me find everything I needed and I spent $300.00 in there. If more of us would act like I did our home grown business would be in better shape. Three days latter I was at “Top Food” and saw that I had paid about half for the things I bought at the family business and the service was sure far superior and way more friendly in the family store. I think we have so much junk glitzed to us that we are having a hard time seeing real quality or recognizing quality in the products we take home and we are so used to being cheated out of our cash we think this is the only way it can be.

By: woody188

woody188 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Bryan is right. Stimulus won’t help without comprehensive trade and immigration reform. Might as well be handing our tax dollars directly to Asian manufacturers.

By: bryan mcclellan

bryan mcclellan — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

That’s what really hurts Woody, we have the affluent and powerful turning their backs to the very ones that generated their wealth and power.It was with sweat, blood, and an honest days work that enabled this nation to prosper, and now we are forced to watch these very fruits be torn from our lips without the slightest regard for our sustenance. HACK!