[amayausers] Re: american made....
- From: "Body Cover" <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 18:33:58 -0700
Well Put!
Ron Vinyard
Body Cover Design
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Eduardo Ruiz" <erc_ruiz@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 4:59 PM
Subject: [amayausers] Re: american made....
> Roland.. you are very good in Amaya stuff...But the part you say......"at
> wages of dollars per week.." is the part that I don't
> understand. Since I am from Puerto Rico, live in Puerto Rico, I paid the
> full 15.3% it is the same percent that you pay and
> never, never vote for the president that send my children to the war. Our
> minimun wage is the same as the State (mainland, of
> course!!. But as matter of fact..... the Washington D.C. territory is not
> more american that our land (is at appreciation like
> your"t wages of dollars per week..."). I have the right, legal and moral to
> put a Made U.S.A in every piece made by Puerto Rican
> people. Every month..... every month...... an american soldier, born and
> raised in Puerto Rico, arrive in coffin to our land.
> Burried between the thousands of our people that have fallen for the American
> Dream since 1898. That piece of shi.t.... that say
> Made In USA are made not with cheap labor......is made with proud with
> american blood.
> Please... be more respectfull with our story and with your story.
>
> Respectfully,
> Eduardo
> Sorry for my English....... Not made in America.....
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Roland R. Irish III <signman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2006 2:46:37 PM
> Subject: [amayausers] Re: american made....
>
> Lots of myth busting to handle...what a can of worms.
> American Apparel...good clothing if you like young shapely girls in
> tight stuff...and evidently so does the CEO...busted! Prime time
> teevee showed the world last week.
> American made goods....hold your horses...very very few companies are
> really producing MADE WITHIN THE BORDERS OF THE CONTINENTAL UNITED
> STATES goods. Yet they ALL have a 'made in the USA' tag. Hanes,
> Jerzees, all of them. How and why? Well, for everyone that fell
> asleep in geography and history class in school...Puerto Rico is NOT
> the only 'island' country still OWNED by the United States in some
> form or another...we (the USA) still own many 'islands' and
> 'territorys' across the world. Since there was a big stigma attached
> to 'going mexican' with your production factory...Hans, Fruit of the
> Loom, Jerzees...all shut down their USA 'mainland' plants and moved
> them to these 'territories'....at wages of dollars per week...and
> STILL legally able to say 'made in the USA'..... Surprise! You are
> buying sweatshop labor made garments whether you believe it or not!
> If you buy teeshirts BY THE FULL FACTORY CASE like I have...read the
> labels! I had cases of shirts come in once, all white teeshirts...all
> adult sizes, all by the full case for a big job. Opened them
> up...EVERY 'size' of teeshirt was made in a different factory in a
> different 'location' so NOT ONE of the shirt sizes matched the other
> for WHITE! And quality was different, material was different, even
> relation of neck size to shirt size changed! And these were JERZEE
> brand! With some investigation work, and talking with sales reps ,
> etc. I learned what I just told you!
>
> Using any silk material or silk thread? Those caterpillars don't live
> in America....
> and how's your Amaya sewing with your Organ needles. Like the way
> they work? Nice, huh? Made in Japan....
> and the computer running your design shop and amaya program....all
> american made? You sure?
> And the monitor on top of it...I have probably 12 monitors kicking
> around here...american 'companies', yes, but not one says 'made in
> the usa'...
> WE don't want to pollute our water and land with the chemicals used
> to make them...can't even throw old computers and monitors in the
> dumpster-get fined for that! I have helped out at a local computer
> 'recycling' center...they strip down computers and monitors by the
> SKID load...and it ALL gets shipped overseas...because those
> countries have no laws about pollution like we do.
>
> As for digitizing- american company or overseas....$10 versus
> $3....well, chances are the 'overseas' people are faster, more
> efficient, more educated than the majority of US graduates...and cost
> of living is a fraction of what it is over here. So they CAN do it
> cheaper and faster. Why are they doing it cheaper? Competition...10
> years ago THEY were getting top price-because no one over HERE was
> doing it. And unless you happen to talk to the actual person that is
> doing the digitizing, or runs the business HERE and you know
> them...you may very well STILL be getting 'overseas' labor. No way
> for US to find out...
> Next time you call your electric company after hours...or your
> insurance claims department, OR EVEN ORDER AT A MACDONALDS DRIVEUP
> WINDOW....chances are, the person on the other end of the speaker
> doesn't speak english at home! Because most of the larger businesses,
> including Macdonalds...have found out with satellite phone service
> and overseas low wages and higher productivity...it is cheaper to
> contract it out instead of hiring local people to try and do the same
> job.
>
> Like many of you, I do try and support local businesses whenever and
> wherever I can-even to avoiding chain food restaurants in favor of
> 'Sally's Home Cooking and Bakery shop' when we go traveling.
> But you can't always do that...and when the competition is offering
> embroidered hats with 10,000 stitches and free digitizing for $2.99
> ($1.75 my cost) then what can I do? Pick up the catalog, call the USA
> office of the across the world manufacturer, try to explain in simple
> english to someone that speaks who knows what....and place the order
> for my client because I can't get anything USA made for less than $6.99.
> Very hard to convince the guy that buying american is good for him!
>
> Roland
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