Okay, now I gotta find a new USA made peanut butter cup.
Strange how all the big US companies think going to China and Mexico and India is the answer, MEANWHILE the Japanese companies are flocking to the USA and building factories in droves.
Why can they afford to pay the US worker but the US factory can not?
What do they know that the US factories do not?
Their wages are on a par with the same USA Union worker, their benefits are also comparable.
I think the joke is on the US companies moving because I don't know about you but as soon as I catch wind of something like this, If I can help it, I never buy their product again.
For me BUY AMERICAN means buy products that Americans built and Americans got paid to make.
Why do I care if the profit goes in Japanese pockets as opposed to American big US business pockets? Japan has shown they will reinvest in the US worker, what has GM or FORD or for that matter US Steel (now made in Mexico) shown us? For me, as long as the American worker keeps his job, I will support the product he makes regardless of where the profit margin goes.
This is coming from a Union man, raised Union my whole life by a blue-collar Union Mom and Dad. Face it people, Buy American does not mean the same thing today that it meant 30 years ago.
The best you can hope to do now is Buy US worker made items.
