Community | March 21, 2011 | 47 comments

40 Surprising Products That Are No Longer Made in America

source: http://www.bschool.com/blog/2011/40-surprising-products-that-are-no-longer-made-in-america/

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The recession helped bury the existing manufacturing industry in the United States, but corporations have been abandoning American factories for years. Many iconic American products aren't even made in this country anymore and are assembled and produced by workers in sometimes questionable conditions in places like Taiwan and Indonesia. Here are 40 beloved American products no longer made at home.
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47 comments // 40 Surprising Products That Are No Longer Made in America

  • letsliveinpeace
  • Saffold
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      Saffold  

    • I find it to be very scary to hear some of the stuff Americans ask or say in regards to the conditions of HUMANITY.All the degrees that so many of us claim to have attained, I find it disturbing to see the confusion that so many Americans live in on a day to day basis.When I look at history, I see that it visits us again, whether it be the world, a country, Humanity, a family, a community etc.Historical events, preditors, champions, and all visit us again and again.Here we are ,entering the early stages of another Great Depression and most Americans are yet asking when will we rise or are we, or it'll get better.It is over.Just as ancient Egypt, Rome, and Greece crumbled, so too, has the once Great Ms. America, she has tilted and is falling, and surely, there will be no jesus to deliver her.Is it because of the sins of America, that she is falling ? No, its history repeating itself.It's the work of the new god, I know them as men, you all see them as mere men.By their minds, hands, committment we fall.I have become o numb to the misfortunes and entrapments designed and executed by men that I wait for she that will deliver me from it all, death.Am I suicidal, no ? Not at all, but after having worked for two moving comepanies and playind key roles in the deliveries of furniture, appliances, etc for both business folk and residents, I got a behind the scene look at the struggles of Americans.We are near the end, and the sad thing about it is that there is no redeemer....Our sense of building busineses, creating jobs, etc are at its end.There are those illegal immigrants who are attaining US currency, yet with limited paper trails of it, chains being placed on the doors of American businesses, and other jobs sent abroad.Do you really think it is morning for us as Americans?!?!?! Its's night time, and althgough, I am neither muslim or christian, i agree with the passage in the king james biblos Mark 7:16, which states, " he that have ears to hear, let him hear.I've haerd, and I see............

    • 1 year ago
  • 1love
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      1love  

    • Until americans accept their past and realize it was built on free and cheap labor there's no moving forward. Now industry has too actually pay ppl what they're worth they're leaving remember its all about profit. 1st homesteding its not like the land was paid for then slavery free, then children labor, sub standard work conditions less expense more profit, then immigrants now you're running off then illegal immigrants. Big business doesn't care about cost of living

    • 1 year ago
  • Saffold
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      Saffold  
    • 1love:

      I got love 4 u 1love, cause i agree with u on the statment u made in regards to the history and past of America.So much of SOME truth is compiled within history books, and some of us have done further research.And another thing, many canb't seem to foresee another historical moment drawing nigh to us, another Great Depression.

    • 1 year ago
  • KSirys
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      KSirys  

    • We need to start jacking up the taxes on corporations that don't have any factories in the US... If they don't want to help the US and it's citizens with jobs, than there's no reason they should get tax exempts!!

    • 1 year ago
  • Saffold
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      Saffold  
    • KSirys:

      We as ordinary people will never be seen as Americans worth helping in the site of the powers that be, and as far as those who we put in office, they are the ones who conduct business with foreigners which is why the jobs are sent elsewhere or when they can come from another country and conduct business here.Furthermore, the law makers, the executors of law are all key players in the stages and condition inwhich the world, not only this country , but worldwide rest in.There are people in other countries who pose the same questions for the powers that be in their country.That's why I disagree with pro-black negroes and others who feel that slavery is an American dehumanizing trade.Slavery is a worldwide issue.Yeah, we are the paople, we the people on the bottome.Just as the pyramid has three layers, a bottom, a mid section, and top, so too does society, people on the bottom, (US), those who occupy the mid section,( but the middle class will be removed), then there are those on the top.And you're right, they don't care about us.

    • 1 year ago
  • COMMONSENSEFORCOMMONGOOD_COM
  • Seauvan
  • bailey78
  • hnhm80
  • a619ko
  • Warren_Merrill
  • Warren_Merrill
  • bailey78
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      bailey78  
    • a619ko:

      so what cell phone or any phone as that goes do you use? Where do your car parts come from? What brand TV do you own? I'm willing to bet that most everything you own is from china

    • 1 year ago
  • a619ko
  • bailey78
  • a619ko
  • bailey78
  • bailey78
  • Saffold
  • dinm76
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      dinm76  

    • One of the old duffers who hangs around my local hardware store had a comment that stuck me as true the other day.... If we in this country were to find ourselves in another sitituation like world war II, we would be unable to fight a war because we do not even make common screws anymore. The entire manufacturing ability of this country is so far gone that we would have to start from scratch!
      Another observation....I was in Eastport Maine last year and all around the town, every available city owned lot was stacked high with raw timber logs. I asked about this...seems the local port could not store all the logs being shipped out so the city agreed to let the lumber companys use any available lot that was vacant for storage. All this timber is being shipped to Korea where it is made into plywood and then shipped back here to fill the shelves at your local Home Depot and hardware store. How can it be possible that it cost less to ship raw timber halfway around the world for proccessing then simple making it next to the forest where it is harvested!?
      And don't you dare blame the unions since people in Maine are mostly un-unionized and some of the hardest working people you will find!
      Thank you George Bush and the republicans for loseing over 42,000 manufacturing plants between 2000 and 2008!

    • 1 year ago
  • Eddie_Miller
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      Eddie_Miller  
    • dinm76:

      Because the workers here demand a higher minimum wage and the location they ship the raw lumber to doesn't have that "problem". If workers in America who desire such a job want that kind of industry to exist here then they must accept a lower wage. If it costs too much to hire American workers, the owners of the business will avoid hiring American workers. Pretty simple

    • 1 year ago
  • postlapsaria
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      postlapsaria  
    • dinm76:

      i understand the hardware guy's comment, but i pshaw (wave my hand at it) dismissively because, hell, this is MERICAH! we can do ANYTHING. even if we DO have to start from scratch (which we won't! pshaw) we'll be ok!

      and i thought about it... we tore down all our useless factories, or we sent them to mexico, literally dismantled and driven over there... so we CAN'T easily start again from scratch. he's very right, my pshaws were stupid.

      damn hardware guy and his correct observation-- i'm all scared now... i'm going to get in a fetal position and sing the national anthem to make myself feel better.

    • 1 year ago
  • SamFL
  • dinm76
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      dinm76  
    • Eddie_Miller:

      American workers are already living off ramen noodles, 99 cent cheese burgers and Mac & cheese! I think a few less dividens paid to the factory owners is called for!

    • 1 year ago
  • Saffold
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      Saffold  
    • dinm76:

      I appreciate you DINM76 for sharing this truth , but truth of the matter is, is that we are being sold into slavery by our own leaders.That is truth.I see that all that occured during World War I and World War II is before us again.I see another Great Depression and another world war on the brink of exploding.We as people may as well duck tape our mouthes and tie our hands behind our backs.We are powerless!!!!We don't control our laws, rights, economy, security, nor leaders...........We are at the end of what was good........damn.

    • 1 year ago
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  • Maggielee
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      Maggielee  
    • Eddie_Miller:

      And this is OK with you eddie_miller? It's ok for corporations who post profits of billions of dollars..profits that go into the bank accounts of the CEOs and investors, AND they receive HUGE tax breaks using our tax dollars, yet they don't want to pay their workers a living wage? Are you serious? IT'S NOT OK!!!! If an American Corporation wants to hire low paid slaves in other countries then they should NOT receive ANY tax incentives, no tax cuts, NO BENEFITS what so ever from the Federal or State governments who collected taxes from their citizens. If corporations which do business in this country then they should be required to support our economy, not another country's. If they want to go to another country and build their companies...fine, let them, but no more US tax dollars! No more buying politicians to protect their interests. NO MORE CORPROATE-OWNED & RUN US GOVERNMENT! ...........................................ACCEPT THAT!!!

    • 1 year ago
  • Eddie_Miller
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      Eddie_Miller  
    • Maggielee:

      I never said it was "ok" or even that I agreed with it. I was just bringing to light the reality of business. I don't have a proposition on how to fix it, SamFL. Maybe if you found one you might be our next president. You could change the law, Maggielee, to regulate those shady businesses and not allow them to "receive ANY tax incentives, no tax cuts, NO BENEFITS what so ever from the Federal or State governments" or, as dinm76 suggested, for "a few less dividends paid to the factory owners" but then what will you do once those businesses leave the U.S. altogether because regulations are too tight? Business WILL leave an area where regulations are too strict. That is why they are sending jobs overseas in the first place. In their eyes, the minimum wage in America is too high for their desired profit margins for select industries.

    • 1 year ago
  • trut
  • Chukarhunter
  • Saffold
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      Saffold  
    • Chukarhunter:

      We have finally made it..................the days of slavery has revisited us.We as Americans may as well duck tape our mouthes and tie our hands behind our backs.It is no0longer an issue of differences of race, but differences of status.You either have or you don't.There are two Americas, those who dwell on the bottom, and they who reign on the top.Our votes, mean nothing to the powers that be.We don't control our economy, our rights, security, nor the leaders we vote in office.we are an unwanted bastard people, having no sense of guardian or real leader.Big Brother has taken over and the US Constitution doesn't even protect us.With the cost of everything such as basic living going up, layoffs increasing, jobs sent afar, where does that leave us ? In a vunerable position....to do and accept anything.......

    • 1 year ago
  • extracrazykiwi2008
  • Saffold
  • Gillian_Marktoo
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      Gillian_Marktoo  

    • On top of this, many things can get the Made in USA stamp that is mostly made somewhere else, and has a little final assembly done in the USA to get that label. That Made in the USA branding doesn't mean much anymore.

    • 1 year ago
  • Schnookums
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      Schnookums  

    • I'm more surprised by finding products that ARE made in America. I don't buy much new stuff, but when I do it absolutely has to be made in America or I don't buy it. If I can't find the product I need made in America, I buy it used (though I do try to limit this as best I can).

    • 1 year ago
  • SamFL
  • Schnookums
  • DianaCancer
  • postlapsaria
  • kerriberri
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      kerriberri  

    • ....and Americans will be buying these products (IPad, IPod, Nike, Converse, Radio Flyer, etc.) with money earned from working---where?

    • 1 year ago
  • remanns
  • postlapsaria
  • CalgarC
  • CalgarC
  • kerriberri
  • bailey78
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