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Maybe small but big deal to me!

E.WilliamsE.Williams Member Posts: 1,101 ✭✭✭✭
edited July 2002 in General Discussion
I went to a car lot this morning to look at a new car for my wife.While we were there doing paper work and talking to the salesman I let my son walk over to the army booth they had set up to talk "to the army man".They had some kind of promotion going on with a bunch of different booths from different local vendors and a Army recruiter.Wellmy son comes back all excited to show me what the army man gave him.It was a dog tag key chain and a key chain that hangs around your neck that says Army of One on it.So I tell him thats great and go to put a couple of keys on it for him and the damn thing says "MADE IN CHINA" on it.I meen what the hell?I didnt want to take it away from him because he was so excited so on the way out I took the sticker off and stuck it on the recruiters table where he could see it.Needless to say he knew what I was getting at.Why in the hell would the U>S ARMY pass out anything with their name on it that said "MADE IN CHINA"?Rubbed me the wrong way to say the least!

Eric S. Williams

Edited by - E.Williams on 07/27/2002 11:16:42
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  • hunter280manhunter280man Member Posts: 705 ✭
    edited November -1
    Good point, I probably would have done the same thing if my daughter recieved one of these tags. Kinda pisses ya off doesn't it!

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  • IconoclastIconoclast Member Posts: 10,515 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    More of the 'lowest bidder' BS . . . other times it's affirmative action stuff - in my one short stint of Federal employment, the mechanical pencils were produced by a sheltered workshop. Didn't last through the first piece of lead, but the taxpayers were making those who would have been institutionalized in past decades feel like productive members of society. We will collapse under the weight of the do-gooders' bright ideas.
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  • MercuryMercury Member Posts: 7,842 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    And yet....if they were made in the USA, someone would * because they would cost $3 each......

    You can't have it both ways folks.

    Merc



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  • offerorofferor Member Posts: 8,625 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I see Merc's point, as well as yours. You get what you pay for. Obviously, the item made in China was worth essentially nada, so the Army can give 'em away, free of charge. There's a certain synchronicity to that.

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  • LowriderLowrider Member Posts: 6,587
    edited November -1
    Remember the big flap over the black berets? The original contract was for the Army to supply the troops with a bunch of "Made In China" berets. So much hell got raised over it that they backed off and had them made by a U.S. company. I think the govt. still had to pay off the contract for the foreign-made hats.

    I believe that any goods paid for with taxpayer's money should be Made In U.S.A.

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  • Harleeman1030Harleeman1030 Member Posts: 1,505 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    USA if you don't wanna support it get the HE** out

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  • E.WilliamsE.Williams Member Posts: 1,101 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Lowrider hit my point exactly.If its our tax money funnel it back into our country.I surely wouldnt * about paying a little extra.Hell have convicts make them.Even have the army make them.I think it sends a bad message to promote and try to recruit people into our armed forces with products made in China which I always thought were one of our biggest enemies and still COMMUNIST!

    Eric S. Williams
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  • agloreaglore Member Posts: 6,012
    edited November -1
    Could swear that somebody in this thread said to buy a Browning over a Ruger. Hypocrisy(sp). Why is a Dog Tag made in China any different than a firearm made buy a foriegn owned company. The money still goes to an offshore bank in both cases.

    AlleninAlaska

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  • E.WilliamsE.Williams Member Posts: 1,101 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Quite simply.The dog tag key chains made in china are being used to promote our military.And my tax dollars I pay to this country are going to China.I dont see it hard to distinguish the two.No hypocrisy just commen sense,Browning makes better rifles than Ruger and their not being used to promote our Armed Forces.If they were I wouldnt like that either.

    Eric S. Williams
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  • leeblackmanleeblackman Member Posts: 5,303 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:
    Remember the big flap over the black berets? The original contract was for the Army to supply the troops with a bunch of "Made In China" berets. So much hell got raised over it that they backed off and had them made by a U.S. company. I think the govt. still had to pay off the contract for the foreign-made hats.

    I believe that any goods paid for with taxpayer's money should be Made In U.S.A.

    Lord Lowrider the LoquaciousMember:Secret Select Society of Suave Stylish Smoking Jackets She was only a fisherman's daughter,But when she saw my rod she reeled.


    The only two places that Berets for the US Army should come from is either the US or France, cause Berrets are french.

    If I'm wrong please correct me, I won't be offended.

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  • will270winwill270win Member Posts: 4,845
    edited November -1
    Allen, that was me and I am just now posting. I woulda scraped the stickers off real quick before I handed it out. Realize that we are a world economy folks. I would like to see more stuff made here, but not at all practical that everything be made here.


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  • robsgunsrobsguns Member Posts: 4,581 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I thought I'd given up on trying to buy U.S. made products, but I went to WalMart today with my wife, and thought I'd go ahead and buy the kids new bikes. Well, it turns out that nearly all of the bikes I saw appropriate for my kids were made in China. I just couldnt do it, buy made in China products I mean. Got my kids standing there looking at me all hopeful and I had to tell them, lets look around some more, we'll get you something soon. It really bothers me, but I dont see as how I'm going to have much choice. 40/60 dollars for Chinese versus 100 dollars for U.S. made. I'm also practical, my kids are going to ruin these bikes in less than a year, realistically.

    SSgt Ryan E. Roberts, USMC
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