Save America, Buy American

And that means, MADE IN THE U.S.A. Many years ago, seeing that on a label meant having a quality article or garment at hand, meant getting top quality, at top price.

It has been a while since I saw something Made in the U.S.A. and quite frankly, I miss it, and I'm tired of the alternative.

I'm tired of the mega corporations taking profits from small town USA into billionaires pockets. Sorry Megastores, you know who you are. Everytime you guys open a store, a bunch of small businesses will dissapear soon in the neighborhood. Quit trying to give that "neighborhood friendly" face. You do not benefit America, you're pocketing our money, buying everything abroad, and destroying our way of life.
Same goes to the "Depot" that employes a dozen people, and leave hundreds without biz. Yes, those family-owned businesses that had to shut down because you sell everything AND the kitchen sink, those businesses stimulated local economy.

This is what most people don't realize. Any of those large corporations take our local money to their out-of-state bank accounts. They employ few people locally, so they can't really say they are helping the local economy.

Small businesses, family owned, employ far more people. Yes, they may not have everything on a single location, but that's what free market is all about, finding what is needed and providing it. But the huge difference is that small biz, locally owned, spends LOCALLY. Their profits stay in town, that money ends up circulating in our local economy.

So how about we bring back Made in U.S.A.? How about we tell those huge corporations to take a hike, and urge our law makers to pass laws that will not allow companies to grow so big that they hurt the local economy?
Sure, there are companies such as utilities that benefit from large scale, and that makes sense, but anything that has to do with retail, should be gone.

Let's bring back our manufacturing power. I'm willing to pay more, if I know that the extra dollars end up in American worker's pockets, in our roads, in our schools.