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Unemployed?
frog21
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I was just wondering if any unemployed people invented anything that could be made in the US. Surely theres something that could be made here and the inventer would be rich.
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Nope, since i've been unemployed all my inventions would be made in China.[:I]Can you build/retool a manufacturing facility on a unemployment income? AMERICA shops at walmart and you,me and everyone we know would not pay a cent more to buy stuff made in USA.
Even back during the "buy American" days the little USA flag sticker
stuck on produts was made in tiwan.[:(]
The get rich part sounds nice....[:D]
GTR
What...?
Nope, since i've been unemployed all my inventions would be made in China.[:I]Can you build/retool a manufacturing facility on a unemployment income? AMERICA shops at walmart and you,me and everyone we know would not pay a cent more to buy stuff made in USA.
Even back during the "buy American" days the little USA flag sticker
stuck on produts was made in tiwan.[:(]
The get rich part sounds nice....[:D]
GTR
yep, what he said[xx(]
Not interested in crawling through all the insulation in the attic anymore since I tried that and ended up falling through the ceiling (wife not happy about that one). Didn't want to poison them for the same reason. I was able to trap and relocate one of them but after that they were too smart for the trap. Started shooting them with a pellet rifle but they got wise to that tactic too. A friend suggest using one of those 10 dollar door alarms to drive them out which worked REALLY well but I was afraid someone might call the Fire Dept thinking it was a smoke alarm. So I was thinking about trapping some of the local wild life (raccoons, squirrels, etc) and seeing if I could construct a device which emits a frequency above the normally audible range which would have the same effect. Something like a small box with a couple of settings for specific critters or maybe just an irritating oscillating frequency. It would have a cord attached to it so you could throw it wherever and retrieve it easily. I'll have to dust of my electronic engineering books but I think there would be a real niche in the market for such a product. It's a common problem with a humane and easy solution. Would anyone here use something like that?
SIX HUNDRED BILLION DOLLARS of tax money. Very little said. US auto companies got a paltry 5% of that and America was up IN ARMS. MOST of YOU on here included. Esp wanting to tar and feather UAW. Keep on buying your overseas junk. Then the whole country will be gone. Come to think of it. IT ALREADY HAS[:(!]
I recently had a problem with some pesky squirrels in my attic.
Not interested in crawling through all the insulation in the attic anymore since I tried that and ended up falling through the ceiling (wife not happy about that one). Didn't want to poison them for the same reason. I was able to trap and relocate one of them but after that they were too smart for the trap. Started shooting them with a pellet rifle but they got wise to that tactic too. A friend suggest using one of those 10 dollar door alarms to drive them out which worked REALLY well but I was afraid someone might call the Fire Dept thinking it was a smoke alarm. So I was thinking about trapping some of the local wild life (raccoons, squirrels, etc) and seeing if I could construct a device which emits a frequency above the normally audible range which would have the same effect. Something like a small box with a couple of settings for specific critters or maybe just an irritating oscillating frequency. It would have a cord attached to it so you could throw it wherever and retrieve it easily. I'll have to dust of my electronic engineering books but I think there would be a real niche in the market for such a product. It's a common problem with a humane and easy solution. Would anyone here use something like that?
Thats been done
http://www.electronicpestcontrol.net/
no gettin rich for you[:I]sorry
GTR
http://www.electronicpestcontrol.net/
no gettin rich for you[:I]sorry
GTR
[:(] Dang, well at least I don't have to figure out how to build it now... sniff sniff
A fact is America is no longer a producing nation, it is a consuming nation.
It is both. The US remains the largest manufacturing economy in the world. It is just that we continue to consume much more than we produce.
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/02/us-remains-worlds-leading-manufacturer/
Brad Steele
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Well saved you some time and effort.
Also in the OP you need to be unemployed to be thinkin
up inventions to get rich...were you unemployed when you
invented the pest conrtol?[:D]