United Shirts of America

Here is a site set up by a young fellow who has had enough of corporate downsizing, tired of jobs leaving the country, tired of the products on the shelves being made somewhere other than the US -- read his story & help him out if you can...

United Shirts of America

Also be sure to read his blog as he chronicles his journey to start his own American company.

Do you remember Fuller Brush Company?

Here is a great source of American-made product for your home, office and car:

Fuller Brush Products

Over 200 of their 250+ products are American-made and you can also access Stanley Home products - the majority of which are also American-made!

New site to check out...

Here is a website that has just come to my attention: www.walmartwatch.com

Check it out and sign up for their email updates.

Check out this video

Check out this video posted on YouTube by a staunch Buy American advocate!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxnTIq_XUa0

Teddy R. said it best -- way back in 1919!

Theodore Roosevelt on Immigrants and being an AMERICAN:

"In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin.

But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all.

We have room for but one flag, the American flag, and this excludes the red flag, which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization, just as much as it excludes any foreign flag of a nation to which we are hostile...We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language...and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."

Theodore Roosevelt January 03, 1919

Everyone needs to watch this video!

Everyone, and I do mean EVERYONE, needs to watch this video. If you are concerned with the effect of immigration (illegal or otherwise) on the job market, if you are concerned with Americans losing their jobs, if you worry that fewer & fewer working people are taking care of more & more non-working folks -- WATCH THIS VIDEO!!!!!

http://www.numbersusa.com/video/?authkey=f17b91de59636ed98aa28d72480dc984

Working Families Need A Raise!

Dear Working Families e-Activist,
Call Your Senators: 1-888-355-3588 Tell Them: Raise the Minimum Wage Now
Congress is about to give itself another pay raise—its EIGHTH since 1997, the last time Congress raised the minimum wage.
Tell your senators to share the wealth and raise the federal minimum wage from $5.15 to $7.25 an hour.
Call your senators now, toll-free, at:
1-888-355-3588
Please call:
Senator SpecterSenator Santorum
Talk about disrespecting workers. Congress is about to take its eighth pay raise since 1997 and hasn’t once increased the minimum wage in all that time.
The Senate may vote on the minimum wage THIS WEEK. Please call your senators now, toll-free:
1-888-355-3588
Tell them it’s time to raise the federal minimum wage to $7.25 an hour.
Today’s minimum wage of $5.15 an hour cannot keep even a small family above the poverty line. It’s an American disgrace that millions of people who play by the rules and work hard every day can’t pull even a small family from poverty.
All of us know it’s hard for working families’ stagnant incomes to keep up with living costs. It’s far worse for those struggling to make it on the minimum wage. They haven’t gotten a raise since 1997. Taking inflation into account, the minimum wage now is worth 26 percent less than it was in 1979. And today we’ve got the highest inflation rate since 1980, spiking gas prices and a price tag for annual family health care premiums that is bigger than a year of minimum wage pay.
Each year Congress considers raising the minimum wage—and each year lately Congress has voted it down. Meanwhile, though, our senators and representatives have gotten nice, fat annual raises. The latest, in January, raised their annual pay to $162,100—and they’re likely to vote on another one this week.
The horror that played out on our television sets after Hurricane Katrina showed how vulnerable our low-income communities are. We cannot allow families that work hard to fall victim to poverty. How can members of Congress sleep at night knowing they’re indulging themselves while denying the basic survival needs of millions of working families? Please take a moment now to tell your senators to raise the minimum wage to $7.25 an hour. Call toll-free:
1-888-355-3588
Once you have called your senators, please click on the link below and urge others you know to call, too, to tell their senators to raise the minimum wage. We need you to forward this e-mail to your co-workers, friends and family.
Thanks for your efforts to correct an American disgrace by raising the minimum wage.
In solidarity,
Working Families e-Activist Network, AFL-CIOOct. 18, 2005 P.S. Please forward this e-mail to your co-workers, friends and family. This is a critical issue for America's working families.



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