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07-27-2022, 04:09 PM
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GE Appliances
Needed to cool off our spare bedroom as my daughter is staying for a week. Went into town and decided to put in a window A/C. Wanted to buy good ol' US made appliance so chose a GE Appliance window air conditioner. When I got it home, noticed it was made in China! Packaging indicated it was distributed By Haier! Huh? Good old American quality! Buy American... is anything made here in the States other than my grandkids? 
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07-27-2022, 04:24 PM
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Originally Posted by wiredgeorge
Needed to cool off our spare bedroom as my daughter is staying for a week. Went into town and decided to put in a window A/C. Wanted to buy good ol' US made appliance so chose a GE Appliance window air conditioner. When I got it home, noticed it was made in China! Packaging indicated it was distributed By Haier! Huh? Good old American quality! Buy American... is anything made here in the States other than my grandkids? |
Hmmmm, Not sure but have your kids traveled out of the country in the past few years? 
Very few appliances are even assembled here with foreign made parts. Some will say 80% by value US parts ... That means 90% parts made in China. 
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07-27-2022, 05:08 PM
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I remember when GE had a very large plant in Columbia MD that made large appliances. That, GM, Western Electric, and a host of others have dissapeared. Made and assembled in the USA? Hamburgers and fench fries, at least for now. China has been buying up US farm land by the hundreds of thousands of acres.
Oh well, If I win the Powerball on Friday I won't worry about it. Now humch is a billion dollars worth in Yen?
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07-27-2022, 05:09 PM
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That’s funny about the grandkids. My Anderson hitch says made in America and Hy tech solar panels made in America. I suspect the materials came from China.
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07-28-2022, 09:24 AM
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Truth be known, where China and farmland is concerned, "By the start of 2020, Chinese owners controlled about 192,000 agricultural acres in the U.S., worth $1.9 billion, including land used for farming, ranching and forestry, according to the Agriculture Department."
"Still, that’s less than farmland owned by people from other nations like Canada and European countries, which account for millions of acres each. It’s also a small percentage of the nearly 900 million acres of total American farmland."
From the Congress Minutes....
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07-28-2022, 12:10 PM
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Truth be known, where China and farmland is concerned, "By the start of 2020, Chinese owners controlled about 192,000 agricultural acres in the U.S., worth $1.9 billion, including land used for farming, ranching and forestry, according to the Agriculture Department."
"Still, that’s less than farmland owned by people from other nations like Canada and European countries, which account for millions of acres each. It’s also a small percentage of the nearly 900 million acres of total American farmland."
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But it's also WHERE those lands are. Communist Chinese have bought land adjacent to several USAF bases and thier interest is in planting antennas, not food.
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07-28-2022, 02:29 PM
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But it's also WHERE those lands are. Communist Chinese have bought land adjacent to several USAF bases and thier interest is in planting antennas, not food.
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The last administration black listed the Chinese telecom company that was pushing 5G because they were planting 5G towers next to US military installations and there were things on the tower that were suspicious. Heard it said that such things might be able to disrupt internet and therefor military command and control or comms. There was a program to target this type stuff but the current administration canned it. Stopping here because it might be considered political. 
Also a bit off topic... sorry for the rant.
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