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Posted by farmer101IL on November 13, 2009 at 08:58:28 from (173.110.248.121):

Hope this doesn't offend anyone except maybe the chinese. O the horrors.!!!

It will require a little effort on your part to participate in this program. Just a little!!!!!!

Maybe i am to late with this post , might have been around for a while.



Farmer





> A physics

> teacher in high school, once told the

> students that while

> one grasshopper on the railroad tracks

> wouldn't slow a train very

> much, a billion of them would. With that

> thought in mind, read the

> following, obviously written by a good

> American. Good idea

> . . . one light bulb at a time

> . . . .

>

> Check

> this out. I can verify this because I was in

> Lowes the other day for

> some reason and just for the heck of it I was

> looking at the hose

> attachments. They were all

> made

> in China.The next day I

> was in Ace

> Hardware and just for the heck of it I

> checked the hose

> attachments there. They were made in USA . Start

> looking.

>

> In

> our current economic situation, every little

> thing we buy or do

> affects someone else - even their job. So,

> after reading this email,

> I think this lady is on the right track.

> Let's get behind

> her!

>

> My grandson likes Hershey's candy. I noticed, though,

> that it is marked made in Mexico now.

> I do not buy it any

> more. My favorite toothpaste Colgate is made in

> Mexico now. I

> have switched to Crest. You have to read the

> labels on

> everything.

>

> This past weekend I was at Kroger. I needed 60 W

> light bulbs and Bounce dryer sheets. I was in

> the light

> bulb aisle, and right next to the GE brand

> I normally buy was

> an off brand labeled, "Everyday Value.”

> I picked up both types of

> bulbs and compared the stats - they were the

> same except for the

> price. The GE bulbs were more money than the

> Everyday Value brand

> but the thing that surprised me the most was

> the fact that GE was

> made in MEXICO and the Everyday

> Value brand was made in -

> get ready for this - the USA in a company

> in Cleveland, Ohio

>

> So throw out the myth that

> you cannot find products you use every day that

> are made right

> here.

>

> So on to another aisle - Bounce Dryer Sheets . . . yep,

> you guessed it, Bounce cost more money and is

> made in Canada . The

> Everyday Value brand was less money

> and MADE IN THE

> USA !

> I did

> laundry yesterday and the dryer sheets

> performed just like the

> Bounce Free I have been using for years and at

> almost half the

> price!

>

> My challenge to you is to start reading the labels

> when you shop for everyday things and see what

> you can find that is

> made in the USA - the job you save may be your

> own or your

> neighbors!

>

> If you accept the challenge, pass this on to

> others in your address book so we can all start

> buying

> American, one light bulb at a time!

> Stop buying from

> overseas companies!

>

> (We should have awakened a decade ago . .

> . . .)

>

> Let's get with the program . . . . help our fellow

> Americans keep their jobs and create more jobs

> here in the

> USA .

>

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