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pstokely Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 12:36 PM
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Things no longer made in America
Edited on Tue Dec-06-05 12:51 PM by pstokely
TVs, many "American" cars, shoes, Toys
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quispquake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 12:37 PM
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1. Democracy...
eom
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BrklynLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 12:39 PM
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6. Excellent!!!
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Deep13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 12:37 PM
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2. shoes
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madokie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 12:48 PM
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15. I believe we still have some u.s. made shoes
redwing for sure and I think rockies.
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LostinVA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 12:54 PM
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22. A few running shoes
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SharonAnn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 01:10 PM
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31. SAS - made in San Antonio Texas according to the label on mine.
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madokie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 02:23 PM
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36. Thanks for that info
My wife is a nurse and she spends a lot of time on her feet and she sure likes SAS shoes. I'm glad to hear they are a product of the U S.
I just figured they were made in china like most are.
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quispquake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-07-05 12:37 PM
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47. New Balance is still around here in Maine...
They actually treat their employees really well...I think it was last year they had a banner year,and gave everyone MASSIVE Xmas bonuses (I heard around 5K). They heavily invest in the community too (donating tons of shoes to the local boys & girls club etc.).
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matcom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 12:38 PM
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3. Border Patrol Uniforms
:rofl:
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phaseolus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 01:17 PM
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32. self-delete
Edited on Tue Dec-06-05 01:19 PM by phaseolus
I understand the topic now -- *no longer* made in U.S. <slaps forehead>
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XNASA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 12:38 PM
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4. Flu vaccine
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mwooldri Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 02:42 PM
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41. Anything by RCA.
Even the name RCA isn't American anymore.
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sinkingfeeling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 12:38 PM
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Fabric. Sheets and towels.
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mohinoaklawnillinois Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 01:00 PM
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27. I know that when I was shopping for new bedding earlier this
year, I couldn't find anything in my price range that was American made.

As well, I bought my husband some new shirts this fall and every one of them was made either in China or Pakistan. They weren't from Wal-Mart either.
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BrklynLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 12:38 PM
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5. cars, clothes, virtually all electronics
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pstokely Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 12:45 PM
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11. they do make Toyotas and Hondas in the US
Edited on Tue Dec-06-05 12:45 PM by pstokely
but those plants are in right to work states
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BrklynLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 12:47 PM
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14. How ironic that GM is going to make their cars in India and Japan is
making their cars here....
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Deep13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 12:50 PM
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16. my Honda, E. Liberty, Ohio. Ohio still has closed shops.
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Canuckistanian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 12:40 PM
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7. American cars
If GM has it's way.
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spinbaby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 12:41 PM
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8. Not true
Sony makes TVs in New Stanton, Pennsylvania.
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pstokely Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 12:45 PM
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12. what kind of TVs?
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spinbaby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 12:52 PM
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20. I'm not sure
I just know they make TVs over there and frequently advertise for workers. It's about an hour's drive away so I don't pay much attention. Near where I live is a company called Kyowa which makes some kind of parts for those TVs. I know several people who work for Kyowa.
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firefox Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 12:41 PM
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9. ordinary bicycles nt
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tridim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 12:43 PM
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10. Stem cells
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lpbk2713 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 12:46 PM
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13. Most American flags.


China, Taiwan, etc.
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LuCifer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 12:50 PM
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17. Bill Hicks said it best...re: flag burning actually
"But my daddy died for that flag in Korea!"
"Yeah? Well mine says here 'Made in Korea'!"

http://www.BillHicks.com

Lu
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jseankil Donating Member (604 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 12:51 PM
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18. Well seeing how many people slammed GM here what do you expect?
One of the largest American employers and you had people slamming it in several threads a couple weeks ago. If you aren't going to support American companies with American workers they won't survive.
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Touchdown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 12:51 PM
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19. Rubbermaid, Video Games.
Rubbermaid had to close their last plant in Ohio, because Wal-Mart wanted them to drop their prices, or WM wouldn't buy their stuff. So they went to China.

Remember Atari? Mattel and Coleco? All American games companies, games designed by Americans, and at least the original Atari machine was made in the US. Nintendo took that over in the late 80s and it's been Japan ever since. I think the X-Box is made overseas too. Atari and Coleco went belly up.
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ScooterKen Donating Member (160 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 12:53 PM
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21. Atari makes games now, not consoles
fyi
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pstokely Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 12:55 PM
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24. Atari is a name used by a French company
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Touchdown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 01:00 PM
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28. Atari's name and properties were bought by Hasbro
...in 1997. Atari itself no longer exists. Hasbro resurrected the name. TimeWarner sold Atari Arcade Games (divested from Atari in 1984) to Midway (Divested from Bally in the early 90s), which is still in operation in Corsicana Texas, but the discs are made by Sony, Nintendo, MS, etc. Same for EA's games.
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pstokely Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 12:55 PM
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23. EA is American
but the games might be programmed in India
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tridim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 02:11 PM
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35. I thought EA was a Canadian company
Edited on Tue Dec-06-05 02:12 PM by tridim
Looking it up now.

Edit: Yep.. http://www.jobster.com/jobs/companies/Electronic+Arts.html
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mwooldri Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 02:38 PM
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39. Nope, EA is American.
Edited on Tue Dec-06-05 02:39 PM by mwooldri
http://www.info.ea.com/company/company_background.php

They're headquartered in Redwood City, CA. They have three main development studios in the US, one in Canada, and one in the UK. They have other studios elsewhere.

So no obvious programming in India... yet. Though I am sure it is coming!

Mark
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pstokely Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-07-05 01:53 AM
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46. Let's not give them any ideas
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MsUSA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 12:57 PM
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25. It's so rare, that when ever I see Made in the USA, I always
buy 2. :patriot:
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trogdor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-07-05 12:55 PM
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48. You usually don't have to.
Anyone still producing commodity items like mixers in the USA usually survives because the products are of very high quality. Go look at a Kitchenaid mixer (not sold in Wal*Mart, and they don't give a rip). Bulletproof, just like in the old days, and available in many stunning colors.
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Clark2008 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 12:59 PM
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26. Common sense...
Well, it's still made here, but only half the country is buying it.
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KansDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 01:02 PM
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29. Tools...
Rarely is it I see a "Made in USA" label on a wrench, and when I do it is usually an old wrench.
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Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 01:06 PM
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30. Electronics parts
including CDROMs, most semiconductors, gyroscopes; consumer electronics of all types; furniture (disappearing rapidly, made in China now), textiles, and enough bullets to supply the troops in Iraq.

If there's another big war before we abandon the ruinous dogma of free trade for corporations and no protection for US workers and strategic industries, we are going to be FUBAR come the next big war.

Offshoring is not only beggaring the American people, it's crippling the country as a whole.
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NorthernSpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 01:25 PM
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33. the "free market" globalization fanatics deserve the firing squad
Those people destroyed America.
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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 01:27 PM
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34. Guitars are still made in America. n/t
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mattclearing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 02:25 PM
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37. Increasingly not so.
Lots of American guitar companies are resorting to Japanese and Korean manufacturing.
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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 02:38 PM
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38. True, yet some of the best handmade guitars are made in the USA and
Spain. Those are the only types I still own: a Spanish classical guitar (Ramirez), and a flamenco, and one American (1979 Gibson SG) - the others were destroyed in New Orleans.

Australians and Germans make great handmade guitars too.
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mattclearing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 02:39 PM
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40. I have to say, my Gretsch historic re-issue (made in S. Korea) is great.
A beautiful hollowbody with great tone, action, and sustain.
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boise1 Donating Member (248 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 03:01 PM
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44. Some of the very best, from Boise, Idaho
http://www.bolinguitars.com/
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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 03:14 PM
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45. Neeto!
See! Cool stuff still made in the USA! :D

I play mostly nylon string, but I still appreciate electric guitars. :)
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donheld Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 02:48 PM
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42. Bombs and Guns
Things still made in America
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wovenpaint Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 02:49 PM
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43. Almost all textiles, furniture, dare I even say
foods.....look at the labels on the packaging in the grocery stores. Most fruits and vegetables seem to be imported-even the "everyday" ones.

The only thing that I've found lately that proudly proclaim ti be made in the USA are my dog's rawhide chews...
Please search out the galleries and artist co-ops, craft shows, etc. as you think of holiday shopping. These are sources of fine examples of American made artisany and art-and deserve to be supported over the malls.

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shanti Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-07-05 12:56 PM
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49. makes no sense
why not make a post about things that are STILL made in the usa? the list would be much shorter!

i have one: fiesta ware (dishes). still made in the usa, same classic, good quality.
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