BUY LOCAL
I like buying local as long as it has good value. And the guy isn't a total crook. I see the buy local tag in the Bee on ads from only certain businesses, like Fresno Volvo and Fashion Furniture. By their definition buying a Volvo is still buying local. Maybe they're making Volvos in Arkansas like Hondas. I noticed Michael Volkswagon doesn't have the buy Local tag on their ads. Maybe it's because they know everybody thinks VWs are made in Germany and it would be a stretch to ask people to buy a VW and call it buying local.

We bought a dining set recently from Macys. On the bottom of the table is an easy to find tag that says, made in China. Checked out a lot of dining tables at other well-known furniture stores in Fresno and could not find one that didn't say made in China.

I think these are the same people who worked so hard to convince us that shipping all the factories overseas in the 90's was a good idea. And continued to give them tax breaks for doing so. And now they want us to buy local when it's not really buying local. The sales tax benefit is cited yet they have been against every tax that has ever come along.

The best argument for the buy local ad campaign is the massive Bee Buy Local section 30MAY09. Talk about math, I'm still going through it all. Anyone would have to be crazy to go against such a massive campaign supported by so many local heavyweights.

It all makes sense until you scratch the surface.
Call me crazy, but I have learned over the years to never, ever believe what is said in advertising.

These local high rollers now want us to buy local when we little people buy stuff, but where do the sellers of the luxury merchandise buy when they buy stuff?

Where are the things manufactured they sell? When they buy the labor to make the stuff where do they go to get it? They buy their manufacturing labor overseas.

I'm a really local guy, but this buy local advertising campaign is phoney. They were the ones who got us into all this financial mess and now they want to tell us how and where to spend our money?

I think the people have spoken. They don't want to buy those bloated gas guzzlers, they want a greener world to live in, universal health care and a government that works for them.

All the things the Republicans have been against for the last....ever.

Article from NYTimes in the Bee 20MAY09
Totally explains this typical top down Republican, pro-big business strategy. They can say it's 'local' even though it's actually manufactured or grown hundreds or even thousands of miles away.

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