Products Made In the USA.

I was looking at the labels of some of my house hold items to see where they were made.   One of the things I realized, as most people already know, just about everything is made in China.   Not that the unemployment rate doesn’t already prove things are being made elsewhere, because the products keep coming.    I don’t see the shelf’s empty with lack of product, but we can loose over 500,000 jobs in a month and nothing seems to stop.   Which is a very interesting observation.

I was shocked to see my Suave shampoo is made in the USA.   I was pretty shocked by that.   I mean you would think soap would be something easily made in China.   I see it was made by a company called Unilever.   I have never heard of them before.  Then later that morning I was putting my tea bags in to make some tea.  I read the box and it was Lipton made by Unilever.    Another interesting thing.

I went and looked at their website and they are a global company.   Even had a link about Mumbai employees being safe.    They make all sorts of products across different areas.  Interesting enough Unilever is not a US company, but they make products here.

So let me get this straight.  US companies make US products overseas, but non-US companies make US products here.   Wow.  What a interesting concept.   Wait, Honda has been doing that for years.   A recent trip to a car show proved that.   Each auto maker had put on the label how much of the car was made in the United States.   I was shocked to see some foreign car companies made almost 100% of the car in the United States, but the domestic car companies weren’t even close to that on some models.

So what does a person do?    If you by a Ford made mostly in another country are you supporting the US economy?   If you by a Honda made almost 100% in the US are you supporting a foreign country?   Talk about confusing.

I think I’m going to settle on where it is made.    If I had my choice of a Honda that was 90% made in the USA and a Ford that was 70% made in the USA,  I would pick the Honda.   I think we need to start sending that message to domestic companies looking a cheap off shore labor.   You might save $1000 bucks on a car, but I just decided to not buy one.   So did you just loose a $30000 sale to save $1000?   We’ll their lucky that I’m not buying a car anytime soon.

I will buy more shampoo.   You can count on the fact that it will be Suave.