Made in India

[F7Hooligan]

Well, I received my new and improved bendix drive for my 2N today. I ordered it from the store on this site. I was a bit dissapointed to see a "Made in India" sticker on the package. Normally I look for American made products and was under the impression this site sold "American". Next time I guess I'll shop around a bit first.

 

[lha]

Maybe you'l get lucky &it will work a long time.I have used some foriegn made stuff&didn't have any problems,but have heard some bad things.when Igot mine,someone had put a 12v battery in it and it was affecting the starter.when I straightened everything out,no more problems,don't know how old the starter is.---lha

 

[JjEjFjF]

(quoted from post at 16:43:57 09/28/09) Well, I received my new and improved bendix drive for my 2N today. I ordered it from the store on this site. I was a bit dissapointed to see a "Made in India" sticker on the package. Normally I look for American made products and was under the impression this site sold "American". Next time I guess I'll shop around a bit first.

Look at the bright side. India is better than China. Should be able to tell by the price if its made in the US or not.

 

[fatbob50]

People do not realize that very few products are manufactured in the USA anymore. They are all made outside the US. Maybe that is why our unemployment rate is so high... Bob

 

[Bob Harvey]

The real problem is that wholesalers/retailers are in the biz. of making profit and can't NOT buy offshore products - yah, they could =out of biz. I just bought a couple of 3/4"x 5" hitch pins for $3.99 ea., yep made in India, bought them from a JD dealer, they didn't have ANY others to choose from.

 

[Anonymous-0]

India, china, japan. If it isn't made here, then the money is being used to make another country's military stronger. Besides putting illegal aliens out of work.

 

[Anonymous-0]

Get real. The reason everything you buy is labelled made in India, China, Indonesia is because the greedy AMERICAN corporate executives of AMERICAN companies can get it made cheaply overseas, and they don't care how many AMERICANS they put out of work, as long as they get their massive salaries and bonuses. Don't blame desperately poor people in third-world countries who will work for pennies on the US dollar, blame fat-cat US corporate executives who sold us out long ago for their outrageous bonuses. This country doesn't actually make anything anymore, we just move money around, and if it makes more money for the white-collar money manager to make a $5 part in India for 5 cents, guess where your AMERICAN corporation is going to make it.

 

[JjEjFjF]

(quoted from post at 19:04:09 09/28/09) Get real. The reason everything you buy is labelled made in India, China, Indonesia is because the greedy AMERICAN corporate executives of AMERICAN companies can get it made cheaply overseas, and they don't care how many AMERICANS they put out of work, as long as they get their massive salaries and bonuses. Don't blame desperately poor people in third-world countries who will work for pennies on the US dollar, blame fat-cat US corporate executives who sold us out long ago for their outrageous bonuses. This country doesn't actually make anything anymore, we just move money around, and if it makes more money for the white-collar money manager to make a $5 part in India for 5 cents, guess where your AMERICAN corporation is going to make it.

Nobody was blaming desperately poor people in third-world countries.

 

[Anonymous-0]

Well, I wasn't, I think that was part of my point, but I think a lot of the time people do exactly that, blaming people who will (must) work for less, when the problem is US industrial policy, and US corporate greed.

 

[rbuckel]

Our greedy corporations have been forced overseas because we want to buy the cheapest product available. We have to blame ourselves!

 

[Walt123]

1986 we bought a Toyota Corolla. 192,000 miles and ten years later We gave it our son and bought a new 1997 Corolla. We still have the '97 Corolla and it now has 248,000mi. Our son put another 45,00 mi on his before it gave up. All that time and miles with only routine maintenence.
When the USA can produce a product like these Toyota autos I will buy it.
As a matter of fact they are now made in America by American auto workers, who, by the way, don't have unemployment problems

 

[F7Hooligan]

Well, that is the point of my post. I don't want the cheapest product available. I'm willing to pay a little bit more to get better quality and keep fellow Americans working. Now that I think about it, I'm going to see if I can find a bendix that is made in the USA and I'll return this one. If they won't take it back I'll sh*tcan it.

 

[F7Hooligan]

Walt, I've got a '91 GMC with a quarter of a million miles on it and a '96 Saturn that I drive 110 miles a day round trip to work. It has 127,000 miles on it and gets 40 mpg. You see, I just don't buy the American made is crap theory. The only "foreign" car I ever owned was a Pontiac that was a rebaged Daiwoo. It caught fire on the way to work one day and burned to the ground. I said "good riddance" to that POS.

 

[F7Hooligan]

Korean Bonfire...

By the way, that's the trusty ole' American Made GMC in the background.

 

[F7Hooligan]

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[gahorN]

(quoted from post at 22:59:25 09/28/09) 1986 we bought a Toyota Corolla. 192,000 miles and ten years later We gave it our son and bought a new 1997 Corolla. ...
When the USA can produce a product like these Toyota autos I will buy it.
...

40 years ago I bought a Toyota and my union-member Dad warned me about it. I told him the same thing you just said, Walt.

Now...I finally understand. Sirius58 has GOT IT RIGHT!

I don't care if a foreign company wants to make stuff over here...that's bettern' what they used to do. But MAKE NO MISTAKE...a foreign car is made over here because OUR DOLLAR AIN'T WORTH SHEIT ! and it's CHEAPER for them. They don't do it because they love us. They do it because we WORK CHEAP and yet so many Americans are stoopid and will still buy foreign.

It don't make sense for a foreign car to be seen with a patriotic bumper sticker. It just goes to show how stoopid some folks are.

 

[Zion Ute]

Well Sirius, that's a reaction that you'll find out of just about any TV show on the old boob tube.

Do you remember when the US made TV sets? Heck, after The War we were about the only country that had any industrial base that wasn't bombed to hell. We pretty much made everything, and there wasn't a whole lot of competition.

That's not a good environment for staying lean and mean. Business got careless and quality and efficiency suffered. Along come the Japanese and Germans with new factories and new methods of quality control (which we taught them, but didn't imnplement ourselves) and they began to each the lunch of our own industries.

Say you make TV's. Along comes Sony and makes a better one for a lower price. If you can't match Sony on price, or provide a better product to justify the higher price, you will lose your customers. If your employees are in an union and refuse to change work rules to help lower costs what else can you do but go somewhere else?

Today there are no American TV manufacturers. US made shoes are an endangered species. Textiles are about gone too. The US auto industry is still perceived to put out a lower quality product than the Japanese.

You're right when you say we don't make things anymore, and I could turn the air blue cussin' about these "banksters" and how they've robbed the American people for the sake of their own overblown bonuses - after we bailed them out of their own damn failures.

It's gonna take people saving again instead of living off of credit cards, so that there is capital for businesses to start with. It will take getting government restrictions out of the lives of people so they can innovate and start new companies. It's gonna take keep taxes low enough so people are willing to work hard because there is a reward at the end of the trail, not just a big tax bill. And it's gonna take the political will to defend the dollar and keep it's value up. God help us if the dollar is ever dropped as the worlds reserve currency.

I wouldn't sell the American people short, but I think we have lean years ahead of us. But if we really fix the problems instead of trying to re-inflate the bubble, I think we can come out of this pretty good.

 

[NOXJohn]

I rebuilt both of my 8Ns over the past two years. Both had engines, drive train, brakes, seals etc. replaced. I made a list of where all the parts came from. I ordered parts from this site, nnalert, Dennis Carpenter, my local TSC, NAPA and several places. If I remember correctly only a very few parts were made in the USA. I do remember the timing gear was USA made. Bottom line is that most of the parts for these old tractors are no longer made here. I wish they were and would pay more for American made parts but they don't exist.

 

[Walt123]

(quoted from post at 23:43:22 09/28/09)

It will take getting government restrictions out of the lives of people so they can innovate and start new companies.

All well and good. However, we have seen exactly what happens when there are no restrictions put on the banking, insurance, real estate, etc industries.

 

[gahorN]

Don't fall for it! That's the oldest corporate propaganda in the book. The union workers are not the problem. The problem is the corporate greed. The most important person at the corporation is NOT the executives. And it's NOT the stockholders. It's the WORKER on the assy line who is making the product that you and I will buy.

"If Bubba can afford to buy a new F-150, then we don't have to worry about Ford Motor Co." - John Sharp, TX candidate for U.S. Senate

Smartest thing I've heard any politician say in recent years.

 

[Zion Ute]

Well, did you notice I called them "banksters"? Bankers/gangsters?

And then you need enforcement of the rules. Best example of that not happening is Bernie Madoff.