Ever wake up in the middle of the night and turn on the radio? This is the show that prevented us from falling back to sleep:
MIDDLE EAST AND CHINA
Saturday August 18, 2012
Joining John B. Wells in the first half, CEO of Red Mind Solutions and retired Naval Intelligence Officer, Frank Wuco, discussed the situation in the Middle East.
Learning just how much of the United States of America China strategically owns - bought with all that money made by selling products to American merchants that we buy from - ought to inspire you to do without or make more of an effort to buy MADE IN THE USA products.
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Friday, August 10, 2012
HOPE YOU SAVED SOME JELLY JARS!
This time of the year, summer, is traditional for growing your own garden, maybe doing some picking or canning, to preserve for the coming winter months.
This may be the time to learn or teach how to garden, when to pick a veggie, how to can or preserve it, how to use spices, and so on. If you can't have a garden, take the kids to the market and show them how to "feel" a cantaloupe!
(We hear some of you are trying your luck at growing grapes and making wine!)
After all, what would you do if you couldn't buy canned goods at the store? Do you know that canned foods can last years and yet the last time we bought canned veggies we were suprised to see "best if used before 2013" on them, making us wonder if these had been in a warehouse for 9 years already!
What would you do if food from other countries was no longer imported into the United States?
If all the seeds that were sold were "terminator" seeds that can't reproduce?
With crops failing in the United States due to drought, we know that the prices of corn and soy will be going up, and with them the cost of all the products including frozen foods that use corn or soy including corn starch, corn syrup, and the like.
We know that home cooking offers the best possibilities for preserving your health as well.
Having a stay at home mom who cooked the daily meals is a rarity these days, so we as a nation have gone for the salty, sugary, fast foods and the frozen foods, and these out weight on especially if they're fried. But making an event out of cooking and eating a home made meal once a week and having family time can be a lot of fun - and don't forget to invite the friends over too!
Monday, August 6, 2012
CHICK-FIL-A ? STARBUCKS? WHAT WE CAN LEARN FROM THE LATEST HOOPLA ABOUT CHICK-FIL-A
Chick-Fil-A dares to be closed on Sundays. Dares to express the Bible-based beliefs of it's ownership and management.
Gay activists in particular are angry. So while they stage a day of protest - or a lifelong boycott of this chicken restaurant - they also stage a day of Starbucks appreciation.
Should we be stunned that some Americans are using their buying power to sponsor the business that they believe supports their world view? Not at all.
Seems to us that some people still buy chicken where they like the flavor and don't know a thing about who runs that business or how they run in. For many people it's not really that important. So we know people who will only eat McDonald's and not Carl's Jr. for similiar reasons.
Are we for forcing Chick-fil-a to be open on Sundays. No!
Gay activists in particular are angry. So while they stage a day of protest - or a lifelong boycott of this chicken restaurant - they also stage a day of Starbucks appreciation.
Should we be stunned that some Americans are using their buying power to sponsor the business that they believe supports their world view? Not at all.
Seems to us that some people still buy chicken where they like the flavor and don't know a thing about who runs that business or how they run in. For many people it's not really that important. So we know people who will only eat McDonald's and not Carl's Jr. for similiar reasons.
Are we for forcing Chick-fil-a to be open on Sundays. No!
Friday, August 3, 2012
WALMART : THE HIGH COST OF LOW PRICE : A ROBERT GREENWALD FILM : DVD RECOMMENDATION
WALMART : THE HIGH COST OF LOW PRICE : A ROBERT GREENWALD FILM : DVD RECOMMENDATION
You have to see this film, even if - especially if - you work for Walmart or shop there. This film is about how the lower cost of made in China and other sweat shop tolerant countries puts small businesses out of business, makes employees dependent on government housing, food stamps, and medical care, and breaks unions. It includes interviews with ex employees including upper management.
WHY SHOULD YOU WORK FULL TIME and still need Section 8 apartments, Medicare, or Food Stamps? OK, now some of this is about your decisions such as having more children than you could afford, even if that is one child, and some of it is about not being qualified for a higher paying job somewhere else, but the WALTON FAMILY IS WORTH BILLIONS while their company promotions and the reality of working there just don't match. (See the conditions that Chinese live and work in to save you a dollar.)
We know how this works. Currently we have wasted about $100 on made in China products that we bought in dollar or discount stores, often because we were running out of time and threw something in the shopping cart. In our landfills now sit 2 umbrellas, a bathmat (that lasted 6 months before ripping underfoot), plastic bowls, etc. See we aren't perfect. We're striving, like you to find and buy American-made products of fine quality - lasting value.
We at PATRIOTIC PURCHASE have advised you not to buy products made in China or other sweatshop tolerant countries. We've advised you to not put fellow American's out of work. Do we hate the Chinese people? No we do not. We know that they have a culture that is not our own and believe they need to work out their own problems. Currently the way to work out their problems is to manufacture for below American market prices, then buy as much realestate in the United States.
Off the subject, Walmart, a little. We are proud to say that through there is a Walmart not far from where we live, we rarely go there. We will go to Target, K-mart, or another" five and dime" before we will go to Walmart.
You have to see this film, even if - especially if - you work for Walmart or shop there. This film is about how the lower cost of made in China and other sweat shop tolerant countries puts small businesses out of business, makes employees dependent on government housing, food stamps, and medical care, and breaks unions. It includes interviews with ex employees including upper management.
WHY SHOULD YOU WORK FULL TIME and still need Section 8 apartments, Medicare, or Food Stamps? OK, now some of this is about your decisions such as having more children than you could afford, even if that is one child, and some of it is about not being qualified for a higher paying job somewhere else, but the WALTON FAMILY IS WORTH BILLIONS while their company promotions and the reality of working there just don't match. (See the conditions that Chinese live and work in to save you a dollar.)
We know how this works. Currently we have wasted about $100 on made in China products that we bought in dollar or discount stores, often because we were running out of time and threw something in the shopping cart. In our landfills now sit 2 umbrellas, a bathmat (that lasted 6 months before ripping underfoot), plastic bowls, etc. See we aren't perfect. We're striving, like you to find and buy American-made products of fine quality - lasting value.
We at PATRIOTIC PURCHASE have advised you not to buy products made in China or other sweatshop tolerant countries. We've advised you to not put fellow American's out of work. Do we hate the Chinese people? No we do not. We know that they have a culture that is not our own and believe they need to work out their own problems. Currently the way to work out their problems is to manufacture for below American market prices, then buy as much realestate in the United States.
Off the subject, Walmart, a little. We are proud to say that through there is a Walmart not far from where we live, we rarely go there. We will go to Target, K-mart, or another" five and dime" before we will go to Walmart.
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