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Elwood P Dowd

(11,443 posts) Thu Jul 11, 2013, 11:18 PM Jul 2013

How can DUers save or create US jobs?

Never use self-checkout.

Mail your bills rather than using the internet. It will help give the Post Office business, and the company receiving the bills will have to pay real people to open and process the payment.

Try and fool the stupid pre-recorded phone menus most companies have today and get a real person on the line. Might keep someone working.

Buy as many American-Made products as you can find or afford. When possible, support companies with strong unions.

Use debit and credit cards less. Paying with cash or checks keeps bank employees working rather than a computer doing all the work. It also saves the business money from the fees they have to pay banks for credit card charges.

Tell everybody you know about pending trade legislation such as this job-killing disaster called TPP.

Vote as many republicans out of office as possible.

More suggestions welcome.

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How can DUers save or create US jobs? (Original Post) Elwood P Dowd Jul 2013 OP

good thread topic Liberal_in_LA Jul 2013 #1

Did you know that most bill pays are sent to the payee in the form of a check? RB TexLa Jul 2013 #2

please let me the first one to rec Nevernose Jul 2013 #3

Buy local from small businesses BrotherIvan Jul 2013 #4

I shop at the local mom & pop hardware store, if they have what I need, Elwood P Dowd Jul 2013 #5

There's one in our neighborhood as well BrotherIvan Jul 2013 #6

You can Lee-Lee Jul 2013 #7

Liberal_in_LA

(44,397 posts)

1. good thread topic

Reply to Elwood P Dowd (Original post)

Thu Jul 11, 2013, 11:23 PM

Jul 2013

RB TexLa

(17,003 posts)

2. Did you know that most bill pays are sent to the payee in the form of a check?

Reply to Elwood P Dowd (Original post)

Thu Jul 11, 2013, 11:24 PM

Jul 2013

That the check is processed by employees of the bank or a third party bill pay service contracted with the bank?

Nevernose

(13,081 posts)

3. please let me the first one to rec

Reply to Elwood P Dowd (Original post)

Thu Jul 11, 2013, 11:33 PM

Jul 2013

Also, IMO, Republican should be capitalized. And so should Democrat, for that matter. But that's just me.

BrotherIvan

(9,126 posts)

4. Buy local from small businesses

Reply to Elwood P Dowd (Original post)

Fri Jul 12, 2013, 02:59 AM

Jul 2013

I'm always amazed that people will trust over-packaged, foreign-made goods from a big box chain over quality, Made in the USA products. Even when the price is very close. Stop buying from chains people!

Elwood P Dowd

(11,443 posts)

5. I shop at the local mom & pop hardware store, if they have what I need,

Reply to BrotherIvan (Reply #4)

Fri Jul 12, 2013, 03:39 AM

Jul 2013

rather than Lowes or Home Depot. It's the only locally owned hardware store left.

BrotherIvan

(9,126 posts)

6. There's one in our neighborhood as well

Reply to Elwood P Dowd (Reply #5)

Fri Jul 12, 2013, 10:12 AM

Jul 2013

Best customer service ever. But all the others have closed down. People want shiny & cheap and they don't care how they get it.

Lee-Lee

(6,324 posts)

7. You can

Reply to Elwood P Dowd (Original post)

Fri Jul 12, 2013, 10:19 AM

Jul 2013

Eat out at locally owned places that use local foods

Buy your food at a local farmers market and local butcher that get their food from local farmers

Heck, for the post office, sign up for every bit of junk mail, free magazines, free information from companies, anything you can get. Most of it is still printed in the USA, so even if you just toss it in the recycling bin you just provided work for the paper makers, printers, whomever hauled it between them, the postal workers, trash collectors, and those who work in the recycling plant.

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