The City County Observer would like to encourage all of our readers to consider making this Holiday Season a season where we all band together to aid the nations economy by resolving to purchase every holiday gift possible that is MADE IN AMERICA.
We took it upon ourselves to try to learn just how to go about doing such a thing and came across the website for DigUSOut that is a business that goes out and finds goods and services that are American and makes them available to people who wish to buy American made. DigUSOut’s site has the following mantra for why they exist.
“Dig U.S. Out was created for one simple reason: to put Americans back to work. With a national unemployment rate of 9.1 percent and 13.9 million Americans out of work, it is time for Americans to take action.
Instead of relying on government to dig us out of our current financial woes, Dig U.S. Out believes that it is we the people who need to rise to the occasion and act. One simple way we can all help is by purchasing more products that are made here at home in the USA by hardworking Americans.
Dig U.S. Out realizes that it is easy to want to purchase the cheapest priced products without giving notice or thought to where these products are made and whose jobs they are supporting. Unfortunately, it is this carelessness that has contributed to our current economic difficulties and the enormous loss of jobs of our family members, neighbors, and friends.
By adjusting our purchasing habits and buying more American-made products, you can help put Americans back to work and rebuild our economy. Far too many jobs have been outsourced to other countries. Dig U.S. Out understands that America is a part of the global economy, but the level of dependence that we have granted to other countries has gone too far.
Today is the day to rise and support American-made products! In so doing with each purchase we can help dig our country out of our economic troubles, create more American jobs, and support the country that we love so dearly. So please make an effort to support American companies and American jobs and in doing so you will be supporting your fellow citizens, community, and the cause of freedom.
Together we can Dig U.S. Out.”
http://www.digusout.com/about-us
Of course if you can find a local retailer to make your American purchases from that is even better because the entire chain of transactions will stay in America, the sales taxes will stay in Indiana, and a local business will make the profits.
This is all fine and dandy, BUT, who in their collective right minds, will pay for American, union made, goods??? Think flat screen TVs!! iPods, Nooks, and so forth!!! Flat screens- $2000, iPods- $600, refrigerators-$2000!!! Who, in this debacle called a presidency, has the money to do that??? NOBODY!!! That is SAD!!!
Think jeans from Tennessee, massages, turtlenecks from Minnesota, running shoes from Maine, club memberships, FOOD, etc. Americans do plenty of things that involve American labor or service. I buy one refrigerator TV at most every 15 years. I buy this other stuff weekly. It will not hurt me to pay $50 for jeans from Tennessee as opposed to $44 for jeans made in China. It is cheaper to buy American than it is to have 20% of the country on public assistance.
Had it not been for “this debacle called a presidency,” we would not have the American automobile manufacturing industry today, manufacturing union made cars.
Of course if you can find a local retailer to make your American purchases from that is even better because the entire chain of transactions will stay in America, the sales taxes will stay in Indiana, and a local business will make the profits.
SOOO, we are not after the wages, merely the TAXES on the items?? That is silly!! We should be after the MANUFACTURING component, NOT the sales tax– totaly silly!!
Read that again Mark. Yes the sales tax was mentioned but a more important factor is that the local business will make a profit and keep that profit in the community. This is done by buying groceries, patronizing local restaurants, buying from other local merchants, seeing a show at the new arena, visiting the farmer’s market …….. ..well, you get the idea.
I will add that there are many wonderful small stores and specialty shops that could use your business this Christmas as well as during the rest of the year. Simplify, pay a little more if you have to, and look for the quality that can be found in handmade artisan and local items or in that new book by a local author. You need to lose the negativity here and think constructively. Your exclamation key seems to be having a spasm.
If these things that are taxed were made here someone was paid the wages. The sure fire way to capture taxes, wages, and profits is to buy American made products from a locally owned merchant.
Our Christmas presents this year will consist of gift certificates from places like Old Fashioned Butcher Shop, Donut Bank, and restaurants that are locally owned.
wonderful ideas!
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