American Made Work Clothing

[snusgetter]

Say it ain't so!

I know several towns in Iowa with quite a few production workers who would welcome such a facility, given that their own were shut down. Gotta be kidding me that workers couldn't be found in all of the U.S. so it had to go to China.

Accounting 101: Make the numbers fit your main objective.
There's nothing like rationalization!

China or Bust!!

THE BOTTOM LINE

[GoVegan]

That's the whole problem. The bottom line. I have a feeling we could all pay just a bit extra and have a quality product that has been made here. The problem is it never goes to the worker. I am thinking K Mart may be able to provide a little competition to WalMart if they agreed to stock American made clothing.

[snusgetter]

That's the whole problem. The bottom line. I have a feeling we could all pay just a bit extra and have a quality product that has been made here. The problem is it never goes to the worker. I am thinking K Mart may be able to provide a little competition to WalMart if they agreed to stock American made clothing.

K-Mart's too busy keeping Sears afloat so Sears can
pawn off their fashionably overpriced clothing.

Try the Salvation Army.

[lxskllr]

Didn't WalMart used to advertise as having a large percentage of American made goods? Maybe I'm misremembering, but that sounds familiar....

[GoVegan]

Didn't WalMart used to advertise as having a large percentage of American made goods? Maybe I'm misremembering, but that sounds familiar....

hmmm sounds familiar. I would definitely shop at K Mart even if it cost's more if they actually made an effort to stock American made goods.

[snusgetter]

Didn't WalMart used to advertise as having a large percentage of American made goods? Maybe I'm misremembering, but that sounds familiar....

Wal-Mart's "Buy American" Program Just a Memory

Wal-Mart was the vision of Sam Walton. He changed retailing in the entire world.

Before he died, he was big on "Buy American," and it appeared in signs in the
stores and on TV ads. Economy in saving store and distribution costs was his
genius. (So was closing all mom and pop stores when Wal-Mart came to town.)

But, Sam Walton's "Buy American" vision was lost long ago. It left when he died.

[lxskllr]

I thought so. That just quietly disappeared, and you start to wonder if you only imagined it.... It's a shame people aren't inclined to do the right thing. If WalMart put their buying power behind American companies, a lot of people could do pretty well, instead of just a few people getting rich. When exactly do you have enough money? When do you say **** it, I'm doing so well, I don't really need anymore, and I can help out some other people? Accumulating wealth is a nasty sport Americans seem to be particularly fond of. Why win by 3 when you can win by 1,000?

[GoVegan]

I thought so. That just quietly disappeared, and you start to wonder if you only imagined it.... It's a shame people aren't inclined to do the right thing. If WalMart put their buying power behind American companies, a lot of people could do pretty well, instead of just a few people getting rich. When exactly do you have enough money? When do you say **** it, I'm doing so well, I don't really need anymore, and I can help out some other people? Accumulating wealth is a nasty sport Americans seem to be particularly fond of. Why win by 3 when you can win by 1,000?

Well said!

[MGX]

Disclaimer: I am not an economist

Americans are not good at accumulating wealth on the average. Our savings rate has been negative for at least a decade. We typically spend all our money. It all comes in and all goes out just as fast.

American manufacturing is still #1 in the world since the last time I checked which was last month (See Society of Manufacturing Engineers www.sme.org). China very may have outpaced us by now. What I believe will stimulate American manufacturing is higher energy prices. When oil prices shot up a couple years ago several medium sized companies moved their factories back to the US only to shutter them when energy prices dropped again.

[tom502]

I think this is the number one failure of America. We used to be the king of manufacturing, and near everyone had a job, or could get a job, a good job, for life. This was the era of our grandfathers. Everyone just about had a decent job for life, the wife did not have to work, they could afford a car, and a house. The downfall of the US began when this era stopped, and jobs were sent overseas for cheap labor, and mass influx on imports became the norm. Now, nearly everything one has is not made in the USA. All this crap talk about the economy, and unemployment, and all the mass welfare mailed out, and the national debt, could all be solved with just halting all job exports, and drastically limiting goods imports. We need a nation built on self-sufficiency, not dependence.