"proudly Made In The Usa?"

[SnakeSkull]

Have you ever looked at a product at a store, and right smack on the label in big, bold letters, it says "Proudly Made In the USA"? I've always wondered why they make American-made products more "open out" than products made in other countries. I've come up with a theory about this. The average American would feel much safer if they product was made in their own country. The cooperation's know that they would spend more money for something made in America, because a lot of Americans does not trust products made in China, Japan, India, ect. Discuss.

[n64kid]

You must not have seen products come out of North Korea.

[SnakeSkull]

At 4/7/08 07:15 PM, n64kid wrote: You must not have seen products come out of North Korea.

We do have products come here, it just shows that it is made there in a tiny label.

[gumOnShoe]

I bet that 9 times out of 10 its about supporting the American economy over a foreign one. Just my guess though.

[Shaggytheclown17]

I for one do not so much trust the fish products that say "proudly made in the USA" since in my kowledge the only way you can get all the nutrients you need which are in the ocean, from fish.

The product is canned salmon n some sardines I usually get, adding to the reason I don;t trust it is because America has the unusual laws that state "only a drug can cure, prevent, or treat a disease" anything else is masked/discredited and/or taken off the market like different cures for what the FDA calls "incurable diseases".

I still haven't discussed the real reason yet so here I go, I am suspicious that the drug companies or some other corporate fuckers are taking, diluting the nutrients and/or putting really bad shit into my fish to somehow reverse the good affects that it has, for that I know is true.

The FDA food and drug administry are like the evil duo, they put bad shit into the food, therefore people get sick and buy drugs to treat the symptoms which cause side affect which require more and more drugs, call me paranoid but for me it is a very real thing, think of it this way, healthy people don't buy drugs, if everyone were healthy then the drug companies would be out of business.

[stafffighter]

At 4/7/08 07:39 PM, gumOnShoe wrote: I bet that 9 times out of 10 its about supporting the American economy over a foreign one. Just my guess though.

If you're buying it in an American store where Americans work you're helping the local economy. This whole deal is that people interconnect patriotism with capitalism not realizing that trade and existing in the world economy are still very important things.

[gumOnShoe]

At 4/7/08 07:50 PM, stafffighter wrote:

At 4/7/08 07:39 PM, gumOnShoe wrote: I bet that 9 times out of 10 its about supporting the American economy over a foreign one. Just my guess though.

If you're buying it in an American store where Americans work you're helping the local economy. This whole deal is that people interconnect patriotism with capitalism not realizing that trade and existing in the world economy are still very important things.

Of course, its all about patriotism and local economies. Trade is highly important though to prevent economic stagnation and so that our products have a chance abroad. Unfortunately the United States is losing, or it has appeared to me already has lost, its favorable balance of trade. I'm not an econ major though so most of it is beyond me.

[Cuppa-LettuceNog]

At 4/7/08 07:42 PM, Shaggytheclown17 wrote:

America has the unusual laws that state "only a drug can cure, prevent, or treat a disease"

No, America does not have that law.

Besides the fact that it's scientifically flawed, America does not make a habit of turning random facts into "laws".

[Shaggytheclown17]

Ok I guess I need to go further, go on TV n explain that eating an orange can cure the illness "scurvy" a vitamin C deficiency type disease.
It is a proven fact that natural cures are being suppressed in the USA for the exact reason I mentioned before, look up on it n get back to me.
I'm out, peace.

[AdamRice]

I like to work on older cars, and from my own personal experience, the car parts made in the USA are often of better quality then those that come from Asia.

For example, many of the oil pumps not made in the USA are more prone to failure because the gears are cast from powdered metal instead of being milled out of a block of steel. Powdered metal gears are often prone to cracking or shattering.

Another example, a guy I know had some bad experiences buying ball joints of foreign creation for his 1971 Cutlass. The mounting holes on the ball joints didn't match up the way they were supposed to and they could not be attached to the frame.

When I buy parts for my 1968 Cutlass S, I go out of my way to make sure they are made in the USA unless I absolutely cannot find anything. (even if they cost more; you get what you pay for)

Not to suggest that all foreign made car parts are junk, but many of the factories suffer from serious quality control issues that lead to the sale of inferior or useless products.

[MortifiedPenguins]

It's great marketing because it taps right into the patriotic vien of Americans and thus helps out selling it.

Think, if your going to sell something, go jingo.

[flashash220]

products made in thailand have lead paint and junk like that usa have strict restictions

[reviewer-general]

At 4/7/08 07:42 PM, Shaggytheclown17 wrote: NEENER NEENER NEENER NEENER NEENER NEENER

Did anyone understand a word he just said? 'Cause I didn't...

At 4/7/08 08:05 PM, Shaggytheclown17 wrote: Ok I guess I need to go further, go on TV n explain that eating an orange can cure the illness "scurvy" a vitamin C deficiency type disease.

Erm, yes?

It is a proven fact that natural cures are being suppressed in the USA for the exact reason I mentioned before, look up on it n get back to me.
I'm out, peace.

Wait, what? If you heard that on the TV, how is it being suppressed as a cure for scurvy? Do you have any links / EVIDENCE to suggest the FDA is suppressing cures for things or putting "shit" in your fish?

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[Al6200]

At 4/7/08 07:42 PM, Shaggytheclown17 wrote: I for one do not so much trust the fish products that say "proudly made in the USA" since in my kowledge the only way you can get all the nutrients you need which are in the ocean, from fish.

You don't NEED nurtrients from the ocean, but a modern healthy diet should include a number of fish.

The product is canned salmon n some sardines I usually get, adding to the reason I don;t trust it is because America has the unusual laws that state "only a drug can cure, prevent, or treat a disease" anything else is masked/discredited and/or taken off the market like different cures for what the FDA calls "incurable diseases".

Right. Of course, food can solve nutrient deficiencies and starvation, but neither of those are really diseases.

If there was strong scientific evidence for any of these "natural" or "alternative" cures, do you think that doctors would be so greedy and sadistic so as to brush them away? Also, if there was even a shred of evidence for them, don't you think their merchants would go to medical journals instead of the uneducated layperson?

I mean, there's a reason alternative cures are on infomercials - the layperson lacks the scientific training or medical background to debunk a fake.

I still haven't discussed the real reason yet so here I go, I am suspicious that the drug companies or some other corporate fuckers are taking, diluting the nutrients and/or putting really bad shit into my fish to somehow reverse the good affects that it has, for that I know is true.

You have to find evidence for this, you know.

The FDA food and drug administry are like the evil duo, they put bad shit into the food, therefore people get sick and buy drugs to treat the symptoms which cause side affect which require more and more drugs, call me paranoid but for me it is a very real thing, think of it this way, healthy people don't buy drugs, if everyone were healthy then the drug companies would be out of business.

What makes you think the FDA puts bad stuff into food? Also, what makes you think that a different diet would end all disease? What sort of a diet would cure cancer - or vaccinate against AIDS?

Alternative medicine is a scam. It preys on people who are ignorant and desperate, looking for an easy way out to a tough problem.

[SadisticMonkey]

Probably in hopes of sparking a sense of patriotism in the customer in order to increase sales.

[Cuppa-LettuceNog]

At 4/7/08 08:05 PM, Shaggytheclown17 wrote: Ok I guess I need to go further, go on TV n explain that eating an orange can cure the illness "scurvy" a vitamin C deficiency type disease.

And then... what? Nothing happens. Everyone Already knew that.

And, again, besides the fact that that "Law" is scientifically flawed, your belief in it shows your ignorence on how "laws" are made. "Laws" are rules that we have to go by.

Just like you can't make a "Law" that the 1982 Miami Dolphins went undefeated, you can't make a "law" that only drugs can cure diseases. Irregardless of the Validity of the claim, it's NOT the format that laws come in.

It is a proven fact that natural cures are being suppressed in the USA for the exact reason I mentioned before, look up on it n get back to me.

Or, give an ounce of evidence.

[CaptainChip]

At 4/7/08 07:42 PM, Shaggytheclown17 wrote: (I don't buy fish from the US because they put crap in it so I have to buy drugs)

Is everything a friggin' conspiracy with you?

[BeFell]

It's simple, I was made in America so I want products that were as well. It's kind of like how black women have to vote for Hillary because she's a woman. Then again Obama is black... shit.

Boy, I'd hate to be in their shoes.

Apparently McCain wasn't made in a America.

What were we talking about again?

Oh yeah, IT'S THE ECONOMY STUPID

[giantpanda]

Yep, pretty much correct. People are more willing to buy things that are "Made in America", because they feel like they are helping the economy and other hard-working Americans. It also insure that the product wasn't made in a sweatshop or by children, and that the workers were payed decently.

[homor]

At 4/7/08 07:42 PM, Shaggytheclown17 wrote: I still haven't discussed the real reason yet so here I go, I am suspicious that the drug companies or some other corporate fuckers are taking, diluting the nutrients and/or putting really bad shit into my fish to somehow reverse the good affects that it has, for that I know is true.

yeah, i saw that ad too.

its stupid fruad shit, the man saying bullshit like that is a liar and a scam artist.

hes trying to scare you into buying his book so you'll look up a bunch of bougus cures.

the goverment is NOT conspiring with hospitals and doctors to make you sick so you'll by meds and they aren't fucking suppressing "natural cures" for the purpose of doing something with doctors for money, thats retarded.

i'm going to point out a list of why:

1: the goverment spends millions of dollars making, inspecting, and testing medience for fucking years, why would they put that much effort into doing all that if they wearen't trying to cure the disesses? because "profits from med sales outwegiht the costs"? haha. fuck no.

2: if the goverment was trying to do all of this for money why do they spend thouands of dollars trying to arrest that guy for fruad? because "profits from med sales outwegiht the costs"? haha. fuck no again, if you combine all the money it takes from making, testing, and inspecting meds and add it up with the legal fees used to convict him of fruad? and lets say for a second you're right and add that up with the money it would take to put shit in your food?

jesus crist, all that money and effort just to keep people on asprin? no, all that money and effort is for curing the dieseses, if we woke up one day and nobody ever got sick ever again that would help the goverment much more then if everyone stayed sick.

3: if these natural cures are so great and can fix up everything why is AIDS such a problem in africa? couldn't a witch doctor or something uses natural stuff to cure it?

4: what does that guy do when hes sick? make a potion of herbs and drink it and hes all better? no, hes goes to the doctor like a normal person.

5: if the goverment is so big and evil why don't they just kill that guy and burn his books and make it look like it was an accident and he was a fruad all along?

yeah, i just ran circles around you shaggy. eat it.

[Wampbit]

It's a sales gimmick in my opinion, it plays on the patriotic side of Americans, I am more inclined to buy something that is claimed to be British; all about the sales figures.

[joshhunsaker]

Do you think you'll ever have to worry about getting lead poisoning from products made within the US? Why do you think companies set up shop in countries like China? They can get away with absolute murder and cut corners like there is no tomorrow. There are hardly any regulations or quality controls for such business' in such countries (I think most people are aware of sweat shop wages and so forth). That's why such things as Underwriters Labratories or the ISO9000/14000 standards and qualifications exist - to make sure all the sh** made in China can actually be managed in terms of sorting out the all the junk from everything that actually worthy of being carried in a target or k-mart.

Getting anything that is made in the US inherently guarantees a level of safety and product stability that you simply don't have with any other product produced in other parts of the globe unless they carry nationally recognized forms of certification for development.

[homor]

At 4/7/08 08:05 PM, Shaggytheclown17 wrote: Ok I guess I need to go further, go on TV n explain that eating an orange can cure the illness "scurvy" a vitamin C deficiency type disease.
It is a proven fact that natural cures are being suppressed in the USA

if they were wouldn't the goverment grab those oranges and smash them?

and everyone knows furit cures scurvy, christ.

[Imperator]

the irony of it all is that people will buy an American brand sometimes, and not check the "made in" sticker.....

Hence people buy GM because it's an American company.......not realizing the car was made in Mexico.....

Inversely people stay away from "foreign" Hondas.......that are made in Ohio......

Didn't we have a whole thing on those little US flags recently? How they're supposed to be all patriotic and shit but they were all made in China?

[robattle]

I like how the Made in the U.S.A thingys are made so that we get to export stuff, and not import.