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[hckynut]

@patbz 

 I will end with this.I am glad you are happy with their progress. Will just say, like many other words, progress is subjective. Our views of it are miles apart.

hckynut(john)

[Nightowlz]

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@Sooner wrote:

@Net52 I just entioned Sladust dusters to someone else.  We got a couple from amazon this week and LOVE them.  Made in Vermont. 

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@Sooner @Net52 

Thanks for sharing.

Never heard of those. Looks like a pretty good product. I think I will try the telescoping duster. 

I have been using Campanelli dusters which I throw away when it gets too dirty. It's basically impossible to remove all that dust.

I used to dust the wood floors but have been using my Dyson with the soft head which works well.

[Nightowlz]

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@Still Raining wrote:

The flip side of boycotting China is that one must be OK with them boycotting our soybeans, right?  I have family in Iowa who would like a word with you about that.

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@Still Raining 

Not trying to be nasty but I prefer no soybeans in all our food etc. IMO we don't need genetically modified soybeans.

[Nightowlz]

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@patbz wrote:

@hckynut : I absolutely am NOT joking!  I am a believer that "history repeats itself".

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@patbz 

Hopefully not but looks like we are moving back to the unemployed with people standing in soup lines. We should be moving forward not going back 100 years.

[Nightowlz]

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@Kachina624 wrote:

I can remember years of buying shoddy American-made good....shirts where buttons fell off on the first wearing, and seams that frayed and pulled out.  I've never had that happen with Chinese-made clothing.

For years and years, I wouldn't buy an American-made auto because they were so poorly made with many problems.  You spent half your time and money at the mechanic's shop.  Never had trouble with my VWs.

Look at all the recalls on American-produced food products.  It's constant; e.coli, salmonella, foreign stuff in food like plastic or metal shavings, etc.

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@Kachina624 

We have always bought Amercian made cars til I bought a Toyota Avalon. Next vehicle will be American made. Toyota ain't all that IMO. Wish I had kept looking & bought something else. It's a nice car just not for me I don't need something so fancy.

[Anonymous032819]

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@Nightowlz wrote:

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@Kachina624 wrote:

I can remember years of buying shoddy American-made good....shirts where buttons fell off on the first wearing, and seams that frayed and pulled out.  I've never had that happen with Chinese-made clothing.

For years and years, I wouldn't buy an American-made auto because they were so poorly made with many problems.  You spent half your time and money at the mechanic's shop.  Never had trouble with my VWs.

Look at all the recalls on American-produced food products.  It's constant; e.coli, salmonella, foreign stuff in food like plastic or metal shavings, etc.

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@Kachina624 

We have always bought Amercian made cars til I bought a Toyota Avalon. Next vehicle will be American made. Toyota ain't all that IMO. Wish I had kept looking & bought something else. It's a nice car just not for me I don't need something so fancy.

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Your "American made" car, was actually only American manufactured, because how can you know for 100% certainty that every single last nut, bolt, screw and wife that went in to your car to make it, was made here?

[Anonymous032819]

Smart phones and most computer devices are made in China.

[Anonymous032819]

I go for the lowest price for me to buy something.

If it's made here, great, if not, that's fine too.

I am not alone in thinking this way.

Wby do you think Wal-Mart and the Dollar Store are so popular?

[stevieb]

As usual when this subject comes up, the hoards take the ball and run with it... While the unspoken might or might not be obvious, I don't recall the OP saying anything about China or about not buying goods produced in China. I don't recall her saying anything about American manufacturing and on and on and on. I seem to recall all she really said was she'd like to know where goods being offered for sale are produced so she has that information when shopping... 

[stevieb]

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@Sooner wrote:

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@Krimpette wrote:

Much as I want to support "buy American", I can't believe that manufacturing will come back to this county in a way that makes a difference.  I honestly don't believe that they would be able to staff factories here.

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@Krimpette I can assure you that when people are hungry or need a roof over their head or have kids to feed factory work looks very good.  At least it did a long time ago when I grew up.  

So are people so privileged that they are too good to work in a factory now?  If that is true, no wonder we're in a mess. 

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@Sooner  I personally honestly don't know, but it seems those advocating an, um, 'open door policy' fall all over themselves to point out that Americans no longer want the 'lower level' jobs and hence we need, shall we say, an infusion into our work force... Again, I don't know if it's true or not, but it wouldn't surprise me... I do think there are those quite willing to work hard at whatever job they can get, but I also think there has evovled in this country more than a bit of snobbism about some kinds of work... I do believe, though, that if more manufacturing jobs were located in the right areas, some folks would be thrilled to take them...