View Full Version : Hard times in the land of plenty.
rhipsher
05-10-2012, 01:16 AM
This truly saddens me to see. Accross the street from me about 5 houses down there's a nice two story house with a nice young couple and 4 kids. The husband is a computer programmer. BMW and a Lexus suv always parked in the driveway. Beautiful yard. This guy and his wife worked on it all of the time. Your classic upper middle class family that had been there almost as long as we have. In 2000 when we bought our home the neighborhood was not even done being built. This guys house and ours were 2 of only 6 houses that were complete on our street. Construction going on all around us. But about 6 months ago I started to notice something changing. First thing was the constant downgrading in vehicles until they were down to just one older Toyota pickup. The second thing was the yard became totally neglected. Next the house. Next a big garage sale. Next a big moving truck. They've been gone 3 days now. So today while walking by the house I noticed a notice on the front door.
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn63/keeno1970/2012-05-09_20-12-21_500.jpg
Poor guy got laid off and the house got foreclosed on.
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn63/keeno1970/2012-05-09_20-14-29_132.jpg
I didn't know them that well. Said hi a few times at the mailbox but that was it. Life goes on.
efnfast
05-10-2012, 09:17 AM
Moral of the story---buy American, support your neighbors. American made stuff may cost more, but not nearly as much as the above story.
.............keep the change.
efnfast
05-10-2012, 11:48 AM
I agree Frank. I'll keep my guns and money, you can keep the change. (Plagerized from somewhere).
John Boothby
05-10-2012, 02:14 PM
I try to make a point and buy American whenever I can. The other day I bought something in the Harley store with the Harley Davidson brand on it and was shocked, just shocked to see "Made in China" on it!! Go figure! Harley stuff ain't cheep to begin with, then to see "Made in China" was a low blow!
I feel for your neighbor.
Made in China......last year at the gathering we went into the NCM looking for some shirts and mug's etc.. We couldn't find anything that didn't have Made in China printed on it !
John Boothby
05-10-2012, 03:09 PM
Don't these people get it? We buy Corvettes and Harley's because we believe in buying American, regardless of price! When I pick up a T or someother whatever, and it is marked "Made in a foriegn country", I feel like putting it back on the rack and telling them "When it says "Made in America", I will buy it!:proud:
efnfast
05-10-2012, 04:06 PM
The National Rifle Assc. sent me some thank you coffee mugs. You got it, as I was putting them in the dishwasher "made in china" on the bottom. I almost threw them out, now I think I will
John Boothby
05-10-2012, 05:22 PM
What I don't get is that these are the flag waving Corporations. Hipicrits!!
rhipsher
05-10-2012, 06:51 PM
I worked at a company that had all of their pump castings made in china. They all had made in china stickers on them. I was told to remove all of the made in china stickers off the castings and put their made in USA stickers on them after assembly. It made me sick to my stomach to do it. It was a total fraudulent lie.
SteelBlueZR1
05-10-2012, 07:15 PM
I would have probably felt compelled to leak this abhorent practice by my employer to the press... But, I bet this practice is quite rampant - for Made in the USA stickers to be miss-applied to Chinese/Taiwanese products to increase sales. I always wondered why anyone would want to put "made in China" on their product?!
XfireZ51
05-10-2012, 07:28 PM
What I don't get is that these are the flag waving Corporations. Hipicrits!!
John,
Yeah! They're patriotic till the last drop of YOUR blood.
carter200
05-10-2012, 10:34 PM
I see that "Hope and change" by Obama worked out just fine for them. November is closing in fast!!!
CT Machining items are ALL made in America ;)
rhipsher
05-10-2012, 10:41 PM
I see that "Hope and change" by Obama worked out just fine for them. November is closing in fast!!!
CT Machining items are ALL made in America ;) Damn right brother.
VetteMed
05-10-2012, 10:42 PM
I see that "Hope and change" by Obama worked out just fine for them. November is closing in fast!!!
CT Machining items are ALL made in America ;)
:handshak: Right on.
XfireZ51
05-10-2012, 11:12 PM
I see that "Hope and change" by Obama worked out just fine for them. November is closing in fast!!!
CT Machining items are ALL made in America ;)
Yes. The noose just got tighter around Rominees neck.
carter200
05-10-2012, 11:31 PM
If we would have said that about your buddy Obumer we'd be called racist. Let's see who's neck gets rung in November.
XfireZ51
05-11-2012, 12:21 AM
I see that "Hope and change" by Obama worked out just fine for them. November is closing in fast!!!
CT Machining items are ALL made in America ;)
If we would have said that about your buddy Obumer we'd be called racist. Let's see who's neck gets rung in November.
Yes, quite true. Because when you've been the one whose neck has been put in a noose, then you get to call those that did it RACISTS.
It's going to be 4 more years and the RepugliCONS know it.
Keep up the machining.
carter200
05-11-2012, 01:10 AM
Yes, quite true. Keep up the machining.
You know this is all in jest ;) and Yes, I'll keep throwing chips till they throw me in a box and burn me........:cheers:
Don't these people get it? We buy Corvettes and Harley's because we believe in buying American, regardless of price! When I pick up a T or someother whatever, and it is marked "Made in a foriegn country", I feel like putting it back on the rack and telling them "When it says "Made in America", I will buy it!:proud:
They will just have stickers made in China and stick them on,like Rick said take the Made in Chine off Made in USA goes on LOL.
It's called "FREE ENTERPISE" at it's best.
And if you think Romney is the solution check yourself into a mental hospital,he'd sell his own mother and your job for cash.
Does anybody know how he made his money?
Pete
scottfab
05-11-2012, 11:31 AM
It's called "FREE ENTERPISE" at it's best.
And if you think Romney is the solution check yourself into a mental hospital,he'd sell his own mother and your job for cash.
Does anybody know how he made his money?
Pete
Well said. The chameleon Romney will flip flop as needed to hide his 1% status. Since his dad was born in Mexico this is going to get interesting. Nows probably a good time to start rumors that Romney is not a citizen and found his mandate to lead under a rock.
efnfast
05-11-2012, 04:16 PM
Romney is from Mass. I used to live there. Corruption is just business as usual.
gbrtng
05-11-2012, 06:47 PM
Romney is from Mass. I used to live there. Corruption is just business as usual.
Same as Chicago politics ...
poly = many + tics = blood suckers
USAFPILOT
05-12-2012, 01:32 PM
The trick is getting the Chinese to buy our ****. Until then we will see no change in regards to our economic future. A couple Billion people importing something from the good ole USA could go along way. We could at least ship them our coal if the EPA won't let our own power companies burn it.
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