Deere scared?

[TomKioti]

Powertrac is supposed to be made in the U.S.A. I wonder if all of it is

 

[Dusty]

A lot of products that are manufactured in the USA are made from parts or raw materials from other countries. The labeling laws concerning foreign content are very complex. I doubt that it is 100% made in USA from 100% made in USA components. Things such as steel plate is made elsewhere and how is the consumer to know if the steel plate that was made into a loader bucket originated in the USA, China, or some other foreign land. I doubt that most people wouldn't even care, because the cost of the item is the largest concern for most people, not where it was made. I don't know if it is still done, but a few years ago, the automobile manufacturers would list the percentage of materials that went into the building of the automobile with the country of origin of the foreign content. I remember reading that Ford Crown Vic's were XX % US content and the balance from other countries.
Dusty

 

[cdover73]

So, is the ad available anywhere? Where?? I would like to see it, but it sounds like it is no longer available. However, this is the internet...if there was ever a posting on the ad, it is still out there somewhere!

 

[AchingBack]

So, is the ad available anywhere? Where?? I would like to see it, but it sounds like it is no longer available. However, this is the internet...if there was ever a posting on the ad, it is still out there somewhere!

Check at your dealer. Mine had a poster of the opening frame of the ad. It shows big red hefting a green, and a red tractor into the air at the same time. If my dealer still has his, I'll have to talk him out of it; or maybe take a picture of it.

 

[Bob_Skurka]

Check at your dealer. Mine had a poster of the opening frame of the ad. It shows big red hefting a green, and a red tractor into the air at the same time.

That is not the advertisement in question.

The one that apparently got them in trouble with Deere was an ad that had a big title "Deere John . . . " It went on to say that they found a new tractor to love.

It was an advertising version of the "Dear John" letters that so many of our US military people get from their wives and girlfriends saying that they found another person and want to break up. Personally, I don't own a Deere (unless you count a push mower, a weed wacker and some other small stuff) but I have to admit that in a time of war, when so many soldiers come home to find that they have lost their wives & families it is an offensive advertisement. I personally know 2 soldiers who came back and their spouse had not waited for their return

Honestly I don't know what part of the advertisement got Mahindra in hot water with Deere, but I know that the advertisement was just in bad taste. JMHO

 

[rtimgray]

Didn't this ad run at one time on this website - I could have sworn I had seen that in the little header ads that run above forums. If not, maybe I saw it in a magazine.

I just thought it was funny - but then again, I'm a Mahindra fan, so I guess it would be funny to me.

 

[Bob_Skurka]

Didn't this ad run at one time on this website - I could have sworn I had seen that in the little header ads that run above forums. If not, maybe I saw it in a magazine.

I just thought it was funny - but then again, I'm a Mahindra fan, so I guess it would be funny to me.

Tim, I don't know if it was a banner ad here or not. I've seen it in at least one of the rural life magazines I get. Not sure which one. Possibly Hobby Farm? I also like the Mahindras, but can't say that I agree with you about thinking it was funny, especially with the situations our soldiers are facing now.

 

[dgl24087]

Didn't this ad run at one time on this website - I could have sworn I had seen that in the little header ads that run above forums. If not, maybe I saw it in a magazine.

I just thought it was funny - but then again, I'm a Mahindra fan, so I guess it would be funny to me.

It did run on TBN for a while.

 

[rtimgray]

Sorry if my standards of humor are not up to yours.

 

[JDGREEN4ME]

Didn't this ad run at one time on this website - I could have sworn I had seen that in the little header ads that run above forums. If not, maybe I saw it in a magazine.

I just thought it was funny - but then again, I'm a Mahindra fan, so I guess it would be funny to me.

I am a JD fan and I thought it was funny also!

 

[TomKioti]

I felt it was mildly ammusing with a hint of sarcasm and a touch of wuzup!

 

[Bradford Timber]

It's interesting.

When I was a kid, our educational system sucked.

I am amazed how much better it is now that I spend a lot of time helping my children with homework and school activities.

As a young man I thought our manufacturing base was going away.

Now I am amazed how much better our products are and how many millions of people around the world are living better lives.

As a middle aged man I thought that America was over and done with.

Now I realize that the only problem that a American has is the man in the mirror.

 

[Dusty]

It's interesting.

When I was a kid, our educational system sucked.

I am amazed how much better it is now that I spend a lot of time helping my children with homework and school activities.

As a young man I thought our manufacturing base was going away.

Now I am amazed how much better our products are and how many millions of people around the world are living better lives.

As a middle aged man I thought that America was over and done with.

Now I realize that the only problem that a American has is the man in the mirror.

When I was a kid, I learned a lot from our educational system, friends, relatives, parents, neighbors, and even strangers. It was a different time than today, where children are sheltered from others out of fear. I was even learning when I wasn't thinking that I was learning. Our formal educational system has been reformed, some for the better and some for the worse, but what they now teach isn't what they taught when I was in school because that information hadn't yet been learned. They didn't know about computers, because computers weren't invented at the time. Same for space travel. They didn't teach about lots of things that we now take for granted in our everyday life because they didn't exist.
As a middle aged man, I never thought that America was over. I did believe that we had problems, but nothing that was any different than any other civilized country was experiencing. In fact, it was the time of the greatest expansion of knowledge that the world had ever seen. For the first time, man was able to travel outside of this planet and visit other places as far away as the moon. I have never given up believing in America, no matter how difficult the times or circumstances of life.
Now, I don't see any of the present problems of America as unsurmountable, and I definitely don't see the problem as the man in the mirror. The man in the mirror has the ability to teach his children and for that next generation to continue on the proud heritage of this great country. How and if they will do that, I, nor the other person in the mirror will not know, because change is slow, and at other times it happens quickly. Our lives are so short in comparison to the world we live in, but that is why the future is always in the hands of the present. I believe that America still has a bright future, if the leaders of the present don't waste opportunities to make it better.
Dusty

 

[BobG_in_VA]

It's interesting.

When I was a kid, our educational system sucked.

I am amazed how much better it is now that I spend a lot of time helping my children with homework and school activities.

As a young man I thought our manufacturing base was going away.

Now I am amazed how much better our products are and how many millions of people around the world are living better lives.

As a middle aged man I thought that America was over and done with.

Now I realize that the only problem that a American has is the man in the mirror.

Funny stuff. A couple of quotes about "learning". Mark Twain said "When I was 14, I thought my father was a fool. When I became 21 I was amazed at how much that man had learned in only 7 years."

Winston Churchill said: " When a man is 20, if he is not a liberal, he has no heart. When a man becomes 40, if he is not a conservative, he has no head."

I subscribe to both the above tenants. BobG in VA

 

[CDsdad]

I think the overall moral fabric of the Nation has been severely eroded.

There's our problem.

It started with our toleration of the immorality of the 1960s and 1970s. Immorality was embraced in the 80s and 90s. Now it is a part of mainstream everyday accepted life for most and especially the demon-possesed American media. Not only are people expected to tolerate and accept immorality, they are often criticized and to some point persecuted for being moral.

That's the main reason Dan Quayle was made fun of so much, besides being kinda goofy, he had morals and the media knew it. America will pay one day, and not only financially.

 

[BobG_in_VA]

OK folks, I tried to lighten it up but we seem to want to go on a rant for or against something somewhere by somebody. I'll take a stand and say this is not the place for politics one way or the other. I'm sure there's a bunch of websites that would welcome all of that. This is TRACTORBYNET. Let's please maintain what this website is about. If you want to flame me send me a PM, but lets keep this place what it was meant for....to share about a common thread in this maze of fabric,,,,tractors/equipment. thanks in advance.

 

[TomKioti]

CD,

Great post. I think were paying in spades now. Bob your right. No problem no flame. Relax
Oh by the way wasn't Winston Churchill a politician?

TomK

 

[CDsdad]

No flame for you Bob. Sorry to get wound up. Stuck on an oil rig and want to go home, you got a spare helicopter?

 

[jwcinpk]

Come on Bob there's not much else to read in the Mahindra forum. Hope your 6000s still treating you well! Besides they're right we are in trouble!