[AT] OT - MADE IN USA (Warning, possibly political content)

[Louis]

I have to wonder if there is some marketing trickery going on with where
products are made.  I read the email below.  I took note about the GE
light bulbs.  The GE brand was marked made in Mexico.  The generic ones
were marked made in USA, Cleveland, OH.  Guess who's rightful division
is located in Cleveland, OH.  Yep, GE.  Google "Nela Park".  Now there
might be some other light bulb manufacture located on Cleveland, but I
have never heard about them.  I live 40 miles west of Cleveland.  Maybe
some of the eastsider on the list might know different than I do. I
think they are doing some slight of hand with wording on the packaging.

Lou

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Per the ongoing discussion here about light bulbs, I got the below email
from a friend this morning. We all need to read the labels on everything
we purchase.

Phil

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 If all of us would do this China would not own us!!!!

A physics teacher in high school once told the students that while one
grasshopper on the railroad tracks wouldn't 

slow a train very much, a billion of them would. With that thought in
mind, read the following, obviously written by a 

good American.


Good idea .... one light bulb at a time ....

Check this out. I can verify this because I was in Lowe's the other day
for some reason and just for the heck of it I 

was looking at the hose attachments. They were all made in China . The
next day I was in Ace Hardware and just 

for the heck of it I checked the hose attachments there. They were made
in USA . Start looking. (note here: earlier 

this week, RZ was in Lowes looking for a sprinkler head. Looked at
RainBird and Looked at Orbits. RainBird is 

made in Mexico ; Orbits in the USA . Orbits purchased!!)

In our current economic situation, every little thing we buy or do
affects someone else - even their job . So, after 

reading this email, I think this lady is on the right track. Let's get
behind her!

My grandson likes Hershey's candy. I noticed, though, that it is marked
made in Mexico now. I do not buy it any 

more.

My favorite toothpaste, Colgate, is made in Mexico ... now I have
switched to Crest. You have to read the labels 

on everything.

This past weekend I was at Kroger. I needed 60 W light bulbs and Bounce
dryer sheets. I was in the light bulb 

aisle, and right next to the GE brand I normally buy was an off-brand
labeled "Everyday Value". I picked up both 

types of bulbs and compared the stats - they were the same except for
the price. The GE bulbs were more 

money than the Everyday Value brand but the thing that surprised me the
most was the fact that GE was made in 

MEXICO and the Everyday Value brand was made in - get ready for this -
the USA in a company in Cleveland, 

Ohio.

So throw out the myth that you cannot find products you use every day
that are made right here.

So on to another aisle - Bounce Dryer Sheets. Yep, you guessed it...
Bounce cost more money and is made in 

Canada . The Everyday Value brand was less money and MADE IN THE USA ! I
did laundry yesterday and the 

dryer sheets performed just like the Bounce Free I have been using for
years and at almost half the price!

My challenge to you is to start reading the labels when you shop for
everyday things and see what you can find 

that is made in the USA - the job you save may be your own or your
neighbors!

If you accept the challenge, pass this on to others in your address book
so we can all start buying American, one 

light bulb at a time! Stop buying from overseas companies!

We should have awakened a decade ago.

Let's get with the program. Help our fellow Americans keep their jobs
and create more jobs here in the U.S.A.

I Passed this on. Will you? 
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