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    Default China!!!

    Sorry for the really non maple topic here but in a way....I just need to vent!!!

    I was at the store today and I always try my best to buy stuff made in the USA or at least canada. Man everything in this country is made in another country and mostly china, no wonder our economy is so screwed up and there are no jobs here because nothing is produced here. I hate going to wally world or home depot or lowes...try to find stuff from the
    usa in there forget it. I go to Ace hardware if they don't have it then I am forced to go to the big ones.

    I know this isn't new news but sorry just mad about it!!!
    may your sap be at 3%
    Brad

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    Just wait till China figures out a way to sell us fake Maple syrup for about 50 cents a pound. They are already dumping crap honey and syrup/honey blends. They are even getting better at shipping from other countries so we can't call it from China.
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    Yes Brad,

    I have been turning items over for years looking for Made in the USA. Pretty much a waste of time now. Buying a greeting card and note cards for my wife's birthday, almost all of Hallmark printing in now done in China. The carbon footprint for this stuff stomps the whole planet. I will keep looking anyway!
    John

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    And here I turn over things to see if it's at least made in Japan. I can remember years ago guys remarking about ROC on everything. I was in class the other day and the teacher was sqwacking about things being made in other countries. I never mention that most of my cloths I wear are bought in and other country let alone made someplace else.
    maybe 50 taps for 2011
    Finally ready to boil when I get enough sap
    I just might be crazy.( make that I know I am)
    Trees all tapped except the ones with 5 feet of snow.
    Enough rabbits to keep Elmer busy..

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    Brad, And it is no accident that nothing is made here any more. Its all happened by a design plan set up by foreign offshore banks, which have hijacked and infilterated our political system and country. The plan is to reduce this once great country to third-world status.

    Check out the following web-site and see for yourself.

    www.infowars.com

    I have yet to find any false information.
    Mark

    Where we made syrup long before the trendies made it popular, now its just another commodity.

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    Third world staus. You guys are all going to move to Quebec and learn french now. Get a good dictionary.
    maybe 50 taps for 2011
    Finally ready to boil when I get enough sap
    I just might be crazy.( make that I know I am)
    Trees all tapped except the ones with 5 feet of snow.
    Enough rabbits to keep Elmer busy..

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    well 3rd world I don't know about that. Socialist country we are already there. big government with its own adgenda yep there too.

    I am all for foreign trade but at the current level its at now is just way off. the government has made it too easy to import and harder to start up a company here. the government calls the economy "A GLOBAL ECONOMY" I say BS to that. lets think about here before we go with this global economy thing!!!

    although it might just be a trend I don't know... but so many folks are being alot more self sufficient. in our world it is impossible to be 100% self suffient because you still have to pay taxes!!!

    also what china does is make money off us twice on the same materials. for example say you buy a car (that was made in china)and you trade it in buy a new one what ever. your old car gets dismantled and sold as recycled material who buys it? China and for much cheaper than new materal and then processes it and makes say toasters, microwaves ovens, toys, toilet paper holders what ever and sells it back to who US!!

    And it is really a catch 22 that the government has put us in the possition that we are in. beacuse in todays world you need allies and with out them your screwed and we are so into helping other countries we hurt our selves. SO if there were someway to get industry back into the USA you will alienate the other world powers then you leave yourself open. so it will just go round and round and round again.
    Last edited by red maples; 04-18-2010 at 12:12 PM.
    may your sap be at 3%
    Brad

    www.willowcreeksugarhouse.com
    585 or so on Vacuum, about 35 on buckets/sap sacs
    Atlas Copco GVS 25A Rotary Vane vacuum pump
    MES horizontal electric releaser
    2x6 ss phaneuf Drop flue, Leader woodsaver blower, homemade hood
    300gph H2O RO
    husquvarna 562 XP
    Its Here!!! 2024 season is here get busy!!!

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    Default This is all I can say!

    John Smith started the day early having set his alarm clock

    (MADE IN JAPAN ) for 6 am.

    While his coffeepot

    (MADE IN CHINA )

    was perking, he shaved with his

    electric razor

    (MADE IN HONG KONG )

    He put on a

    dress shirt

    (MADE IN SRI LANKA ),

    designer jeans

    (MADE IN SINGAPORE )

    and

    tennis shoes

    (MADE IN KOREA)

    After cooking his breakfast in his new

    electric skillet

    (MADE IN INDIA )

    he sat down with his

    calculator

    (MADE IN MEXICO )

    to see how much he could spend today.. After setting his

    watch

    (MADE IN TAIWAN )

    to the radio

    (MADE IN INDIA )

    he got in his car

    (MADE IN GERMANY )

    filled it with GAS

    (from Saudi Arabia )

    and continued his search

    for a good paying AMERICAN JOB.

    At the end of yet another discouraging

    and fruitless day

    checking his

    Computer

    (made in MALAYSIA ),

    John decided to relax for a while.

    He put on his sandals

    (MADE IN BRAZIL ),

    poured himself a glass of

    wine

    (MADE IN FRANCE )

    and turned on his

    TV

    (MADE IN INDONESIA ),

    and then wondered why he can't

    find a good paying job

    in AMERICA

    AND NOW HE'S HOPING HE CAN GET HELP FROM A PRESIDENT

    MADE IN KENYA !

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    How long do you think it can last that they send over ship after ship full of hard goods and we press a button to make a number in their account a little bigger?

    Think they are smarter than that and will wake up soon.

    Maybe you should switch from wood fired to a dollar fired arch?


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    MADE IN KENYA

    This one puzzles me a lot. Owell.

    Unfourtunatly unions and such made it impossible to keep jobs on shore as who is going to pay $50 dollars for a product worth a dollar in materials and $30 bucks in labour. Just isn't going to happen. We had a big chicken place close down here as the union made it impossible for them to keep in business.
    maybe 50 taps for 2011
    Finally ready to boil when I get enough sap
    I just might be crazy.( make that I know I am)
    Trees all tapped except the ones with 5 feet of snow.
    Enough rabbits to keep Elmer busy..

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