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 Posted: Oct 07, 2008 - 12:11 AM
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Joined: Oct 24, 2002
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Location: CA
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Name ONE company still producing products solely in the USA....
Hard isn't it ?
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Posted: Oct 07, 2008 - 05:52 AM
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Location: Lakeland Florida
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Something I really admired that I observed with the Sicilians: they did a lot of stuff right there in their homes- small businesses. You could get the most delicious gelatto, Pizza, and other things in their little shops. People would convert the first floor of their house to a business and lived upstairs. There were dress shops, auto repair places, many of the things that are necessary for life today were available within walking distance.
Some (a lot, I believe) of the products were made right there or locally.
I understand that there were even some small machine shops and so on. It is very possible.
They made do with smaller cars (or even scooters, bicycles, and so on), and did without a lot of stuff, but everyone knew about computers, cell phones, etc. Many just didn't own them because either they didn't need them or because they couldn't afford them.
This is remarkable because in Sicily, the official (as of the last time I read it) unemployment rate is over 30%, and the unofficial is over 60% (and where we were, poverty was more of a problem than usual.) It was their culture's way of coping with poverty and it worked.
We ate a lot of locally produced foods- and I think we ate pretty healthy stuff.
Some things are difficult to do at the small scale- but there is a lot that can be done.
A system like that- if a dairyman started doctoring his products to make more profit- his neighbors would know pretty quickly and he'd suffer directly. I rather imagine that the people in China figured that their "products" would go elsewhere, so they didn't care because it didn't impact those close to them.
(Actually, littlestar, as of 8 years ago I could name you a few companies who produced products solely in the US. Outsourcing has become such a problem that I don't know if that would be true today.) |
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