Cool beans / ABC News: Contractor spearheads "Made in America"

[BobPalma]

'Happy to post this:

http://cdnapi.kaltura.com/index.php/kwidget/wid/0_04vzdsr5/uiconf_id/5590821

(I wish they would have highlighted which components were made in Indiana. <GGG>)

'Bully for all involved. (Thanks to SDCers Don Galeziewski and Larry Swanson for forwarding this to me at the same time!) BP

[Bill Pressler]

'Happy to post this:

http://cdnapi.kaltura.com/index.php/kwidget/wid/0_04vzdsr5/uiconf_id/5590821

(I wish they would have highlighted which components were made in Indiana. <GGG>)

'Bully for all involved. (Thanks to SDCers Don Galeziewski and Larry Swanson for forwarding this to me at the same time!) BP

What a great post Bob, thanks for sharing!!! If we can just get some folks to get past the sins of the past of American-made things, and agree to pay even a little more, this country could be great again.

[BobPalma]

What a great post Bob, thanks for sharing!!! If we can just get some folks to get past the sins of the past of American-made things, and agree to pay even a little more, this country could be great again.

That's a "polite" thought, there, Bill, but I think builders who buy China-made materials today are more likely chasing price than quality...perceived or actual. <GGG>

One of the more unusual things about that video is at the very end, where a builder was simply unaware of a J-bolt manufacturer in the United States. That is, he had not priced that domestic company because he didn't know they existed.

'Can't help but wonder how much of that goes on, in reality, with so few domestic manufacturers making some of those items. BP

[jclary]

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'Happy to post this:

http://cdnapi.kaltura.com/index.php/kwidget/wid/0_04vzdsr5/uiconf_id/5590821

(I wish they would have highlighted which components were made in Indiana. <GGG>)

'Bully for all involved. (Thanks to SDCers Don Galeziewski and Larry Swanson for forwarding this to me at the same time!) BP

I found Maze nails at Lowe's several years ago and have found them MUCH less likely to buckle when you don't hit them squarely as I am prone to do.
A couple years ago we were determined to find American-made toys for our grandson's birthday. Took us all day of looking, but finally found a plastic wheel barrow at K-Mart and a Slinky at another store, both American made.

[JDP]

Pardon me for this moment of skepticism (I wasn’t always this way), but, did I notice a Scion logo on the steering wheel of the car the “Made in America” reporter was driving?

Any story I see from a member of the so-called “Main-stream media” is now met with a little suspicion. What are their motives? Are they beginning to feel a bit guilty and starting to realize all the damage they have done by allowing themselves to become pawns of agenda lead propagandists? Are they beginning to realize that freedom of the press and free speech must be tempered with factual responsibility?

Have they become aware that their jobs could be the next to be “outsourced?” With today’s technology…how much could be saved by moving their studio to China or India? I’m sure that for a lot less money, off-shore English-speaking reporters would be happy to dress up and read a teleprompter on the evening news.

Just thinking….

Or are you looking for evil intent when there is none, and the story is just a good story. They have been doing the Made in America series for a year or more, but often with a harder time finding American products.

[JJWMACHINECO]

Those products would be truly Made in America if the equipment, tools, computers used to design the products, raw materials, ect. were American made also. There is nothing made anymore that you can honestly say is 100% American made. Even the carpenters tools that they used to build that house were most likely made somewhere else then America. A good story, but not completely true.

[Bill Pressler]

Maybe so, but IMHO this is certainly a step in the right direction.

[BobPalma]

Those products would be truly be Made in America if the equipment, tools, computers used to design the products, raw materials, ect. were American made also. There is nothing made anymore that you can say honestly say is 100% American made. Even the carpenters tools that they used to build that house were most likely made somewhere else then America. A good story, but not completely true.

Taking that to its logical extension, then, nothing was ever 100% "American" made, Jeff.

If we walked through South Bend Lathe or Studebaker or Bendix in South Bend in 1956, I'm sure we could have found something with a tag on it that said, "Made in Germany," or some such.

We have to go with the general idea, here, and not pick it to death.

If the nails were manufactured from raw material somewhere in Illinois and one of the material handling trucks was assembled by Toyota in Columbus IN from some parts sourced in Japan, then the nails were still manufactured in The United States.

When they are pounded (oops, driven) into the house being built, they are one United-States-manufactured component of the house being built of U.S.-manufactured building materials, which is the point of the newsclip. BP

[jclary]

Wouldn't it be a nice ironic (pun alert) twist if the american made nails contained lots of steel salvaged from crushed up Hondas and Toyotas!

[JDP]

Wouldn't it be a nice ironic (pun alert) twist if the american made nails contained lots of steel salvaged from crushed up Hondas and Toyotas!

Except those Honda's and Toyota's could have been made in the USA from crushed Fords and Chevy's.

[Jim B PEI]

Except those Honda's and Toyota's could have been made in the USA from crushed Fords and Chevy's.

The most "American Made" vehicles sold in the USA are, ISTR, a Toyota followed by a Honda, and the same situation happens in Canada, where a Toyota and and Honda (different models) lead the list. So, crushing those Korean-made Chevys and Mexican-made Fords might have been a good thing!

[(S)]

Too bad people have to be REMINDED !!!

[Bob Andrews]

Too bad people have to be REMINDED !!!

Yep. And I'll keep "reminding" until I die.

[Bill Pressler]

The most "American made" vehicle is a Toyota, yet the Japanese tsunami completely hamstrung them (is that a word?) here. Also, it was very clear during the recent recall debacle that big decisions still come out of Japan for them. Not all domestic brands are built elsewhere, and not all foreign brands are built here. It is common knowledge that the Detroit Three employ more workers, and also U.S. suppliers, than any of the foreign manufacturers.

The only Korean built model sold at Chevrolet dealers was the Aveo, no longer manufactured, and I believe it was not a secret that it was being sold as a 'captive import'.

Its replacment, the Sonic, is built in Michigan and is the only subcompact built in America. Period.