BUY AMERICAN

 

As I have mentioned numerous times before, I am neither a Democrat nor a Republican; I am both liberal and conservative and somewhat socialistic.  But...  and with that said, I am totally against BUYING AMERICAN.

I am, however, for buying the CHEAPEST PRODUCT WITH THE HIGHEST QUALITY.

Unfortunately, American made products do not always fit into either of those criteria.

Since the mid 1980s when I was an organizational development consultant, I would teach business and industry how to reduce the variation in the manufacturing process to produce a high-quality product at a cheap cost.

I was paid to teach their employees this concept and once the training was over, the management team would not let their employees used what they had learned.

Sounds unbelievable but I was paid either $100/hour and $2,500/day plus expenses to do this.  I made a rather lot of money in the process.

Knowing this, I will very seldom buy American made products unless they meet my already mentioned criteria.

Second, because the American labor force keeps demanding higher wages and more benefits, American products are now some of the most expensive products in the marketplace.

Not knowing your purchasing habits, let me say that I refuse to throw my money away simply because it is American made.  I spend my money wisely and with frugality.

I stopped buying American cars in the 1980s and started buying Japanese cars because of the quality, the longevity, and the high resale value towards my next Japanese car.

Sadly, I have to buy American made homes and whether the homes that I have purchased are new or old, I find that I am constantly pouring money into refurbishing because the original structure was not built with quality and long-lasting durability in mind.

If foreign countries can make the products, I need cheaper and with higher quality then those are the products that I am buying.  The current inflation problem that we have had in the USA for the last four years, has just encouraged me to buy less and less American made products.