ABC’s World News with Diane Sawyer has been running a series titled “Made in America.” Buying American made products is a wonderful idea that every American certainly wants to support.
Jon and Anna Usry and their two kids opened the doors of their house, in Dallas Texas, to World News with Diane Sawyer’s David Muir and Sharyn Alfonsi, who promptly backed up the moving truck and emptied their house of everything not made in America. There was nothing left except the kitchen sink.
World News went on to find that even the gift shops in the Smithsonian Institute are stocked with most things made in China. They do not stock American made products because the cost is high.
The replacement products in that house with American made items for the most part were about the same price with the exception of the really expensive items like television, and kitchen appliances. Televisions aren’t made in America and the Viking and Wolf kitchen appliances are both expensive compared to imported brands.
Coffee makers, like televisions, are no longer made in the United States.
Consumer Reports just issued their annual Cars report. Overall ratings by manufacturer are as follows:
#1 Honda
#2 Subaru
#3 Toyota
#5 Ford
# 12 General Motors (next to last place)
#13 Chrysler (last place)
Can we afford American made products that are difficult to find, relatively expensive, and in some instances poorly made?
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