Jacksonville Florida’s First EcoBroker Realtor, Dena Calivas

Just received this great e-mail and wanted to share.  Makes you think that supporting your local companies and buying American made products can make a difference!  Please, let’s all do our part!

A physics teacher in high school, once told the students that while one grasshopper on the railroad tracks wouldn’t slow a train very much, a billion of them would. With that thought in mind, read the following ………….obviously written by a good American.
  
Check this out:

 I was in Lowes the other day, and just for the heck of it I was looking at the hose attachments. They were all made in China. The next day I was in Ace Hardware, and just for the heck of it I checked the hose attachments there. They were made in USA. Got me thinking. Start looking.
 
In our current economic situation, every little thing we buy, or do, affects someone else – maybe even their job. My grandson likes Hershey’s candy. I just noticed that it is marked ‘made in Mexico’ now. I choose not to buy it any more. 

My favorite toothpaste, Colgate, is also ‘made in Mexico ’ now. I’ve switched to Crest. You have to read the labels on everything.
 
This past weekend I was at Kroger. (Can be true for any store.) I needed 60W light bulbs, and Bounce dryer sheets. I was in the light bulb aisle, and right next to the GE brand I normally buy, was an off brand labeled, “Everyday Value.” I picked up both types of bulbs and compared the stats – they were the same, except for the price. The GE bulbs were more money than the Everyday Value brand………but the thing that surprised me the most, was the fact that GE was ‘made in MEXICO’ and the Everyday Value brand was ‘made in (you got it) the USA’, in a company in Cleveland, Ohio.
 
So throw out the myth that you cannot find the products you use every day……made right here!!!!!!!
 
On I went to another aisle. Those Bounce Dryer Sheets I needed – yep, you guessed it! Bounce cost more money – and – it’s made in Canada. The Everyday Value brand was less money – and – ‘MADE IN THE USA’! Bye-bye Bounce! I did laundry yesterday, and the dryer sheets performed just like the Bounce Free I’ve been using for years………..and at almost half the price!
 
My challenge to you is this. Start reading the labels when you shop for everyday things, and see what you can find that is made in the USA . The job you save may be your own, or your neighbors!
 
If you accept the challenge, pass this on to others in your address book, so we can all start buying American……one light bulb at a time!
 
Stop buying from overseas companies and other countries!
 
We should have awakened a decade ago. Longer than that… Over 30 years ago it was already happening.
 

Let’s get with the program and help our fellow Americans keep their jobs, and create even more jobs, right here in the U.S.A.

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