"Good-fast or cheap...........pick two."
If you've never heard this it's true........
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Yeah, I gotta tell you I pretty much drooled with envy when I figured out what it was. I am not normally a gadget person, but......do want. Looks like the RPF Midwest party needs to be at your house.Originally Posted by specsaregood
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Yay! Good for you! My sister-in-law has a new Forester and she loves it - it's a pretty sweet ride and that lap pool is the bomb!
Well, we aren't in the Midwest.Ya know I almost didn't post it because I know there are rpf'ers hurting out there economically and I didn't want to come off as a braggart; but it was just cool not to share.
As I mentioned in another thread; my wife really wanted to move to a bigger more expensive house. But after MUCH discussion, we determined that this swim device and a new car would improve our quality of life more than a bigger house and mortgage. So we are staying in our small, modest house which is probably the smallest house they ever delivered one of these beasts to.
As to the car: I really would have preferred to buy an American made vehicle; but we test drove and researched em all and nothing came close in the quality/performance/price range of the Subaru forester. So that's what the little woman has now to improve her commute to work. We had been a 1 car family for about 9 years...
It will also likely have gone through an intermediary of some sort in America.
There are some awesome companies in the US who make quality products. There are also some who do so but happen to be based overseas. When you buy a Toyota instead of a Ford, your dollars are still employing Americans. This is why the rabid "overseas stuff is junk" people perplex me. Even those items exclusively made in the USA still depend greatly upon foreign-made machinery and computers to get the job done, which means that when your local widget plant expands, they are going to spend some of their money on foreign stuff.
That doesn't all fit neatly on a single label, though.
Could make it my place since he is not in the Midwest.
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That's just how people are. Slap a Brazilian flag on the bottom of your product and everyone will love it and want to buy it. (That's in Brazil, of course.) Slap an Indian flag on the bottom of your product and everyone will love it and want to buy it. It's the same everywhere. People are hopelessly provincial.
Last fall I hired a lawn company to do my leaf cleanup. I found the company on craigslist and admired their ballsy pitch: American owned company, all employees are american, NO ILLEGALS on ground crew. They did a good job at competitive rates.
Its gonna a be a busy summer; so I searched on craigslist and found them using the same pitch. Hired em to do the lawn this summer; cheaper than the rates I've been quoted by the companies my neighbors use with a bunch of Guatemalans. Bonus is I have ground crew that I can talk to without making big hand motions, finger pointing and broken spanglish.
edit: saw 3 neighbors ask him for his business card/flyer while he was working. seeing a young white guy doing lawns is a rarity around here.
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Wow, specs, you are really committed to this whole "Made in America" thing, aren't you?
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Seems like a lot of the foreigners are starting to get comfortable with having a monopoly on this kind of work as well. Starting to get lazier and lazier. Am glad that you were able to bring some change to the neighborhood.
No, sir! I was just asking. That sounds like a yes.
Sounds like a load of hooey to me. But, we all have our narratives that we buy into. None completely align with reality, no doubt. We've just got to try to sort things out the best we can.I like quality products; I find American service and products of higher quality on average. I guess I could buy overseas products that are inexpensive partly due to cheap oil made so from the deaths and subjugation of millions; but that's not my style -- to each their own.
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Isn't one supporting Americans when one buys a foreign-made product from an American retailer?
I dunno , but I will not buy anything $#@!ty , from anywhere .
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I bought some American made baseball bats from the American Bat Company.
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I bought an 1852 gold pc. , made in america
I bought two cases of Pabst Blue Ribbon,made in America.
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Someone would have to be totally unaware of the realities of manufacturing, or totally delusional, to believe that something like a washing machine like this was "Made in America".
It was made by the world.
You're supporting more Americans by buying domestically manufactured goods from an American retailer.
But if you get less satisfaction for more dollars, then you are failing to support the one American that it's very important that you support: yourself.
As I've said before, "Made in America" can be HIGHLY deceiving!
Only a small percentage of a product's assembly need be done in the US for such a label to be legally true. For example, you can import wheel chairs, and simply put handles and feet rests on it, and it is now "Made in America". I understand the passion, but don't let it blind you to international standards for manufacturing and sales.
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LOL! U-S-A! U-S-A!
Try opening up the cover, specs. Go ahead, I'll wait.
What is that you see? What does that label on that motor say? How about the pump?
Eek! Anathema! Quick, where's your garlic?
Now open the control panel and check out that printed circuit board.
Aack! Back, demon silicon!
Look up the model numbers of all the electronic components and learn about their genesis.
Good thing you're always wearing your anti-furrin silver cross.
Shoot, where do you think the rubber hose came from? The threaded adjustable feet? Even the enameled steel panels for that matter?
This machine was most certainly not "Made in America" in any way that I would call particularly meaningful. Your Delusions May Vary.
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