Don't buy American

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  1. Tyke The Tree-Frog

    Tyke The Tree-Frog Well-Known Member

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    Doesn't sit well with me, all good condemning Trump and America, but we will all still be using stuff which comes from worse situations than orange bad man. Slavery, child labour, actual nazi camps in China against Uygur Muslims. The oil we use from countries like Russia who are attacking a sovereign nation. Or places who see women as second class citizens, brutal dictatorships, the lot.

    Wed have nothing.
     
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    Proper made me laugh out loudly did that lol
     
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    Sweet shops in China would be better, hmmm toffee Apple.
     
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    I've got a couple of bottles of Buffalo Trace so hopefully won't need to get any more. I'm going to avoid buying any NFL/NCAA gear either, might be time for a new Maple Leafs jersey
     
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    Just pointing out what the article says. Most is not all. Several articles cover many everyday goods. The haricot beans that Heinz use are from the USA. Some Kellogs products are imported from the USA and south america.
    The poster said he couldn't think of anything.
     
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    Who remembers were all backing Britain song I think it was early 70s. Buy British you know it's best.
     
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    Twitter, Amazon, Facebook,
    Nike, coca cola. mcDonalds etc etc
     
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    I don't think Don will succeed in his plan to price out the world in the hope that he can get as near to 100% of things America needs, to be made in America, thus creating more jobs I'm his homeland and making them less reliant on other countries.

    You need to trade with other countries.
     
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    Quite a bit of the stuff I use as a Painter & Decorator is American. Just off the top of my head, Benjamin Moore, Zinsser & Sherwin Williams (who make Valspar) all are, and are very good.

    Purdy, Corona & Wooster are just 3 of a large number who manufacture brushes, rollers and decorative tools that are popular in the UK.

    Bulk of the my paint comes from a manufacturer called Tikkurila though, who are Finnish - but are now a part of PPG, who are American.

    I suppose it depends if the stuff is being imported or manufactured by a US company that’s based here. Suppose I’ll soon be getting ‘the letter’ to let me know if my prices are increasing.
     
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    A lot of people here will be ditching Sky, Netflix, Amazon, EBay, Facebook, Google, YouTube, Apple, Microsoft, Coke, Pepsi, McDs, Burger King etc then!

    All American owned and ultimately where the money goes back to……
     
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    Sorry I couldn't see any reference to an article to address, I was just making a general comment to the words posted.
     
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    Yep just the one out of those and that's Amazon.
     
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    Bill Gates was the only tech billionaire not to brown-nose the orange one so I'm ok to keep using my W11 laptop, but the iPhone's days are numbered.

    So far, I've closed my twatter and facecrap accounts and will not buy from Amazon and needless to say that Tesla I had on my wish list is crossed off. I don't go in MacDonalds except to use the bog, I don't like cola anyway and gave up wearing Levi jeans decades ago.

    I'm doing my bit.
     
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    No problem I'd have said similar until I read the articles. I was just trying to point out we buy loads of stuff and don't know it's origin. 2 of the worst countries for human rights are N. Korea and China. And I would think it would be highly unlikely someone hasn't bought from there. It's a tough subject imo.
     
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    American spelling.
     
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    I went in the Levi's shop in Vegas to buy some yank Levi jeans. There wasn't a single thing in the shop that was made in America.
    China, Vietnam
    yes, America no!
     
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    People who think Budweiser is beer probably think the Sun is a newspaper.
     
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