Are you buying American?

I have always tried to buy American but many of our largest stores make it very difficult to do. Macy's, JC Penney's, Nordstrom, Lord & Taylor, etc. all mostly carry foreign made merchandise. And it's not just the top name stores that are doing it. Your everyday go to stores like Target, Walmart, Old Navy, etc. pretty much carry 100% foreign made goods.

About 10 years ago, I was going overseas to visit family around the Christmas holidays. I literally went to every store in our large shopping mall to find gifts for them that were made in the USA. The only items I could actually find were cookies and candy.

IMO, if we really want to be able to buy American, we need to start boycotting a lot of stores until they offer American made products.

I'm glad you found your nationalist sentiments when prices went up... now that everything is more expensive, you're really going to love Trump and the U.S.A..

Without prejudice: You opening remark is telling. So few Americans realise just how much of they their society uses to function is made overseas. And how much is involved if some of that production can come home..The time line can be years and the difference in cost would be back breaking..Much of Americas prosperity (such as it is) relies on cheap imports..😷

As construction "material contractor"...you deliver material? You work at home depot?
You order stock? You handle material for large projects? In any case, how do you not know about where the materials you handle come from? Do you not remember trumps tariffs from his first term? Or when so many products where held up during covid?
How many construction material providers in your area handle only american grown lumber? American made drywall? American made steel?
And let's be honest...those american made products are going to rise. There is no corporation that is not going to raise homegrown prices to closely resemble those of foriegn products.
If you are a contractor, i feel bad for you right now. But, it was your choice.

It's a political thing with the left. We all need to try and make this work, it will pay off in huge amounts of everything in the long run

Nope, not any more. And I'm informing people around me, in Europe, why they should stop buying American goods as well.

With allies like the orange capo di tutti capi we don't need enemies anymore.

I remember when the made in the USA tag was what you looked for.
Buying American supported American jobs and workers.
Made in china would get you laughed at.
Chinese products were usually known as cheap counterfeit knock offs that wouldn't last long.

I agree. TDS is a problem. Typical liberals can't see the big picture. They see whatever the complaint of the day is and that's it. They'd rather sit by and watch working class Americans struggle while gifting illegals all sorts of benefits paid for by the very people who are struggling.

@PatKirby One of the mayor problems of the USA is that half of the nation (left/right, Republican/Democratic) is calling the other half all bad names thinkable and refuse to work together.

That used to be different.

Absolutely

Nah man. Our cars break down more than anyone’s. I’ll pay more for a better product.

I've spent a lot of time online trying to find American made stuff. Usually I'll succeed.

Not always. I much prefer we remove the tarriffs on Canadian lumber. Even the ones that were in place before Trump's new BS. It was cheaper, higher quality and they have so much more of it. Trade is good.
Tru buying American crown coffee, chocolate, bananas, tea.. Good luck with all that. Keep consuming those things, and your argument is 100% bunk.
Besides there's plenty of resources we aren't even able to procure ourselves. The romanticized utopia of a walled garden of abundance is myth.

Also remember. It was the rich capitalist private businesses that sent jobs overseas. Not the government, not the EPA, nobody but the rich ownership class that wanted to maximize exploitation and profits for their own sole benefit.

I’m trying ….

Nope.

Around 90 % of generic drugs in the US are imported and around 90% of prescriptions filled in the US are for generic drugs. I wonder how those reliant on prescription medicines will buy American 🤔

Here's the deal. No company in their right mi d is goi g to bothercsetting up shop in the US just to avoid a Trump tariff. It would be suicide. They would be locked out of selling in other countries. Meanwhile we're going to be stuck paying the additional 46 percent for stuff made in vietnam.

His plan is not going to work. The next election will be a bloodbath.

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Unfortunately, owing to Trump's recklessness, buying anything American will probably not be a practical option for me for many months to come.

You can pay much more for lower quality if you want that might not be true for other americans,

This has really brought the shady foreign companies to light. They enacted Tariff surcharges
on their existing inventory that they did not pay higher tariffs on.

Just heard that Taiwan has agreed to 0% tariffs.

I can't buy a battery for my Dewalt, hardware store will no longer stock Yankee products

It would be nice if most products made in America were made by American owned companies.

There won't be any chlorinated chicken in this house!

How can I? Retailers aren't even stocking American anymore

How long will it be until all products that all Americans purchase are produced in America and owned by Americans?

I buy what I can afford.

The Left will sell out their grandmothers before they love this country.