The cost of a first-class stamp — also known as a forever stamp — will rise to 45 cents today, January 22, 2012. This is the first price increase in more than 21/2 years. The cost of sending magazines, standard mail and some package services also will rise, but prices for Express Mail and Priority Mail will stay the same.
Sunday, January 22, 2012
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
AMERICAN PRESIDENTS : WHO IS YOUR FAVORITE PAST PRESIDENT?
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Sunday, January 15, 2012
NEW YEARS RESOLUTION : SPEND 20% MORE TO EMPLOY MORE AMERICANS
Talk about dispiriting! Recently we heard some talk radio personalities making fun out of people who want to buy American.
One of them said Americans could not resist the deal, buying things cheap, and from China. THE STATISTIC this radio personality quoted on the cost of buying Made in the United States goods was 20% higher. I know this adds up, especially as sales taxes have also gone up in many places. However, those who can afford to should buy products and services at the 20% mark-up (as one way to look at it) anyway. And those of you who cannot afford to should still look at the origins of products on the packaging and choose the MADE IN THE USA equivalent whenever possible. And the rule here is, buy from our allies if you can't buy American. Support the economy of Great Britain, for instance!
THE MORE PEOPLE WHO ARE EMPLOYED here and now, the MORE PEOPLE WHO WILL ALSO BE EMPLOYED AND BE ABLE TO SPEND. The chances of you getting a raise go way up when the economy is rich because it becomes an employee market. As things stand all Americans - unionized or not - are loosing!
This is not something our President can do for us, nor should we expect the President to tweak numbers WITHOUT OUR PARTICIPATION IN THE UNITED STATES ECONOMY!
We are researching here for good products made in the USA. We hope you are inspired to check labels, do your own research, make made in the USA product requests in stores you shop in, and so on!
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Patriotic Purchase Bloggers
One of them said Americans could not resist the deal, buying things cheap, and from China. THE STATISTIC this radio personality quoted on the cost of buying Made in the United States goods was 20% higher. I know this adds up, especially as sales taxes have also gone up in many places. However, those who can afford to should buy products and services at the 20% mark-up (as one way to look at it) anyway. And those of you who cannot afford to should still look at the origins of products on the packaging and choose the MADE IN THE USA equivalent whenever possible. And the rule here is, buy from our allies if you can't buy American. Support the economy of Great Britain, for instance!
THE MORE PEOPLE WHO ARE EMPLOYED here and now, the MORE PEOPLE WHO WILL ALSO BE EMPLOYED AND BE ABLE TO SPEND. The chances of you getting a raise go way up when the economy is rich because it becomes an employee market. As things stand all Americans - unionized or not - are loosing!
This is not something our President can do for us, nor should we expect the President to tweak numbers WITHOUT OUR PARTICIPATION IN THE UNITED STATES ECONOMY!
We are researching here for good products made in the USA. We hope you are inspired to check labels, do your own research, make made in the USA product requests in stores you shop in, and so on!
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Patriotic Purchase Bloggers
Sunday, January 8, 2012
WHAT DO WE A AMERICAN CONSUMERS HAVE AGAINST CHINA?
We know that most Chinese people are good people. We know the Chinese have historically been ahead on many inventions, are hard workers, and we hold no personal hatred for the Chinese people as individuals.
We know that Chinese culture is not our culture though. As Americans, living in the United States of America we are against China for the following reasons:
Forced Anti-Religious choice and economic Communism.
Forced Limits on Reproductive Freedom (One Child Per Family Policy forces abortion).
Child Labor.
Suspected and reported violations of individual's civil rights as we know them.
We're also aware that many companies in the United States and elsewhere deal with Chinese companies because the workers are paid cheaply. We know that they don't care if the air in China is polluted by factories (as if that doesn't effect the entire earth) or if the Chinese people have an epidemic of lung cancer and other illnesses from that pollution. We say shame on them for exporting labor, putting Americans out of work, and hurting our economy. Shame also on the Chinese government for allowing their people to suffer.
We also hold it against these two negative forces for:
Lack of codes for products which, for no good reason, contain lead and other harmful substances arriving here. (And shame on the United States for allowing dishware that has a peel off warning lable on the back that it should not actually be used for food! We saw a lot of this "decorative" stuff being sold at 99 Cents Only and other stores for the Christmas season.)
Junky Value: You'll buy it cheap but it will fall apart and end up in a landfill for us to deal with. That's where it gets our ecology!
We can do without all that junk!
We know that Chinese culture is not our culture though. As Americans, living in the United States of America we are against China for the following reasons:
Forced Anti-Religious choice and economic Communism.
Forced Limits on Reproductive Freedom (One Child Per Family Policy forces abortion).
Child Labor.
Suspected and reported violations of individual's civil rights as we know them.
We're also aware that many companies in the United States and elsewhere deal with Chinese companies because the workers are paid cheaply. We know that they don't care if the air in China is polluted by factories (as if that doesn't effect the entire earth) or if the Chinese people have an epidemic of lung cancer and other illnesses from that pollution. We say shame on them for exporting labor, putting Americans out of work, and hurting our economy. Shame also on the Chinese government for allowing their people to suffer.
We also hold it against these two negative forces for:
Lack of codes for products which, for no good reason, contain lead and other harmful substances arriving here. (And shame on the United States for allowing dishware that has a peel off warning lable on the back that it should not actually be used for food! We saw a lot of this "decorative" stuff being sold at 99 Cents Only and other stores for the Christmas season.)
Junky Value: You'll buy it cheap but it will fall apart and end up in a landfill for us to deal with. That's where it gets our ecology!
We can do without all that junk!
Thursday, January 5, 2012
YAHOO HEALTH WARNS CONSUMERS ABOUT DECEPTIVE SERVING SIZES ON PACKAGED FOODS
WE WANT TO BE INFORMED CONSUMERS, and while this blog features products and services that preserve jobs in this great United States of America and a MADE IN THE USA philosophy, we are not telling you to buy junk or let yourself be deceived.
That's why this Yahoo Health article is so important. I tripped over the article on the net because it was about foods that are bad for you. Who doesn't need to loose a few holiday pounds? The article is about how some manufacturer's list the calorie count for a product as lower than it is, because if you read further on the package, you'll see that they have decided they are packaging more than ONE SERVING even if it sure does look like a serving for ONE.
I know this can be crazy-making. First there is your hunger - you have to eat - and you may not feel full if you eat just one little serving. You buy a box or something and tell yourself you won't eat it all at one time, but you do, because that one serving was not sufficient.
HOME COOKING IS ALWAYS THE BEST. Far less salt, far less preservatives, probably less hidden fats too, but we all buy some convienience foods to cut our preparation time. If it looks like one serving - a teeny pizza for instance pot pie - then it should be labeled for the calories IF YOU EAT THE WHOLE THING!
On this target list: SOBE DRINKS, NISSAN RAMAN NOODLES, KELLOGS POP TARTS, CAMBELLS CHUNKY MICROWAVE SOUP, CEDERLANE BURRITOS, KING SIZED BUTTERFINGER BAR... READ LABLES FRIENDS!
Sunday, January 1, 2012
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