BODACIOUS CASES link here!
One of the businesses mentioned in the ABC news story... and now if we can only get the cellphone companies to make phones here...
Showing posts with label Small Businesses. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Small Businesses. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
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.
Friday, February 12, 2010
BUY YOUR LOVE SOME GROWN IN THE UNITED STATES FLOWERS
Yes it is true. Many of the flowers sold in floral shops in the United States are imported! This may be one of the more difficult products to bust when it comes to finding out where they originate.
NOW TAKE HEART IN THE GREAT STATE OF HAWAII where orchids, bird of paradise, and other more tropical flowers are grown and are flown into the mainland United States...
SO WHAT CAN YOU DO? ASK YOUR FLOREST where the flowers and other items they use such as baskets and vases originate. GO TO THE LOCAL NURSERY where the tags may let you know where the plants have been grown... and buy live plants rather than cut flowers.
Even though their answer may not please you, JUST ASKING LETS THEM KNOW YOU CARE!
NOW TAKE HEART IN THE GREAT STATE OF HAWAII where orchids, bird of paradise, and other more tropical flowers are grown and are flown into the mainland United States...
SO WHAT CAN YOU DO? ASK YOUR FLOREST where the flowers and other items they use such as baskets and vases originate. GO TO THE LOCAL NURSERY where the tags may let you know where the plants have been grown... and buy live plants rather than cut flowers.
Even though their answer may not please you, JUST ASKING LETS THEM KNOW YOU CARE!
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