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is there an organization that promotes buying products made in your own country?

Done it make sense to keep buying products from companies that have sent most of their jobs outside your own country? Most of us are upset over the massive job losses and yet we caused it by buying products made or grown in some far off place? How do we force the manufaturing of products made in our own country? Do you think the Chinese, people of India, or Vietnam, are buying clothes and shoes or ANYTHING made in North America, the UK or Australia? Are we just so stupid that we will keep buying products made in places that out our own families out of work? How is this going to be stopped? I wonder why no polical leaders advocates stoppp[ing or restricting imported products when so much money is being paid out to the unemployed and so much money has to be borrowed from other countries.

Public Comments

1. Yes, most unions try to encourage their members, and the general public to buy the products your neighbours help to make. Sadly most people like to shop at Wall Mart, and don't care about buying local until their jobs are exported to a lower wage country.
2. Yes, usually your own governments encourage people to buy products made in their country. Unfortunately, as the other poster said, why pay more for products made in your country when you can get it cheaper in large retail stores who import stuff from countries for next to nothing. Not to worry, though. As these countries, China and India, are quickly becoming prosperous, their own citizens will start buying more of their own products, which will increase the prices of these products in western countries. Within ten years or less, a pair of sandals at Walmart will cost the same as a pair of sandals at Sears. At that point, people in the west will start buying more of western products.
3. I grew up conscience of the power to buy american. Not even a pencil crossed our threshold unless it was american made growing up. Its easy enough to validate american made and assembled products.. http://www.madeinnations.com/ http://www.americanmanufacturing.org/ http://www.americansworking.com/ http://www.americasvirtualgeneralstore.com/ http://www.madeinusa.org/ http://www.howtobuyamerican.com/index.php http://www.toysofusa.com/ http://www.stillmadeinusa.com/ Love these blankets.. http://www.montanawoolenshop.com/PBlanketFari.html quote What can you do? Well there are many things that you can do. First and foremost always try to buy American Made Products. Second thing you can do is let companies know that you would rather buy products Made in The USA. And one very important thing you can do is stop buying from companies that out source support jobs! If we complain loudly enough they will stop and bring those jobs home
4. i wish i could buy more British products i always try to support local shops in my area by going to the farmers market , fruit and veg market or local butchers , i get my christmas tree every year from a local supplier these clothes made in china are cheap and most people don't care so long as they have a new outfit at weekend or a nice new rug for the patio jobs are disappearing and we are partly to blame