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Elwood P Dowd

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43. Marcy Kaptur used to call them "Screwdriver Factories".

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Sat Nov 15, 2014, 03:43 AM

Nov 2014

I heard her and Ralph Nader both use that term back during all those trade debates in the 1990s.

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Walmart�s �Made In USA� Televisions Are Allegedly Made In China [View all] demmiblue Nov 2014 OP

Walmart is a republican company---They love America and would never lie. Kingofalldems Nov 2014 #1

You mean lie down, but tell a flat falsehood? Oh, yeah. In a heartbeat. They do it every minute. nt valerief Nov 2014 #44

They ought to be prosecuted for this blatant lie madokie Nov 2014 #2

Element Electronics? Because it is they who are making the claim. Nye Bevan Nov 2014 #5

To Walmart, it's just sport. Eleanors38 Nov 2014 #45

What's old is new. They had a similar initiative in the late '80s louis-t Nov 2014 #3

Thank you for being willing to protest, louis-t. brer cat Nov 2014 #4

the gif in your sig... awoke_in_2003 Nov 2014 #11

I have one of those... Spazito Nov 2014 #12

My last cat died 8 years or so ago... awoke_in_2003 Nov 2014 #13

Geez, losing a pet to poisoning is awful... Spazito Nov 2014 #14

I have three grandchildren living with me... awoke_in_2003 Nov 2014 #15

I completely agree, my cat, at first, was very agressive due to, I believe, having been abused... Spazito Nov 2014 #17

My best friends cat just went over in one night 2008 or 2007 I believe lunasun Nov 2014 #27

I won't eat food from China... awoke_in_2003 Nov 2014 #34

Exactly here he thought he was buying something a little better that friskies or whiskas lunasun Nov 2014 #39

I remember a Walmart in the town I wasing living in back then that had a sign claiming they had livingonearth Nov 2014 #40

Why the focus on Walmart in this thread Nye Bevan Nov 2014 #6

Walmart has a responsibility to ensure what they are advertising as... Spazito Nov 2014 #8

And how about the other retailers who also sold these products? (nt) Nye Bevan Nov 2014 #9

They have the same responsibility... Spazito Nov 2014 #10

Target gets too many passes i m o. Walmart is the mother of them all + Sam's club Is lunasun Nov 2014 #28

Sam's Club is Wal Mart. LeftyMom Nov 2014 #16

Perhaps the irony? salin Nov 2014 #19

^^^this^^^ progressoid Nov 2014 #31

thx for the plug. Sometimes I forget salin Nov 2014 #41

Walmart, a company that makes sewage smell better than they do... Spazito Nov 2014 #7

So is Target yeoman6987 Nov 2014 #51

The OP is about Walmart... Spazito Nov 2014 #54

I am at Walmart right now yeoman6987 Nov 2014 #56

LOL, that says it all n/t Spazito Nov 2014 #57

I have friends sorry. Some don't. yeoman6987 Nov 2014 #58

LOL! Nice try at an empty smear... Spazito Nov 2014 #60

Whatever. Obviously I am outside of Walmart talking yeoman6987 Nov 2014 #62

Please show me where I 'slandered' you? Spazito Nov 2014 #63

Lol. I just knew when I posted that I was at Walmart yeoman6987 Nov 2014 #67

Actually, it is about Walmart, Target, Meijer, Sam�s Club, and QVC joeglow3 Nov 2014 #61

The OP is about Walmart... Spazito Nov 2014 #64

Whatever. You get the point and are trying play semantics joeglow3 Nov 2014 #65

Facts are pretending? Wow...just wow! n/t Spazito Nov 2014 #66

It was probably selling like hot-cakes... ReRe Nov 2014 #18

No they bought the box with the flag on it . That will console lunasun Nov 2014 #30

At least they don't "assemble" them with prison labor. Spitfire of ATJ Nov 2014 #20

Should say 1% assembled in USA? Omaha Steve Nov 2014 #21

The TV pictured on the box was made in America.. LeftinOH Nov 2014 #22

It is pretty clear if you just read the FTC website snooper2 Nov 2014 #24

That's not possible. There's a flag on the box and everything. n/t Orsino Nov 2014 #23

A similar version H. Cromwell Nov 2014 #25

The best sounding TV period . At Walmart? Already lies on the box so America probably does not lunasun Nov 2014 #26

'assembled' in the u.s.a. oldandhappy Nov 2014 #29

I'm shocked. Shocked, I tell ya. progressoid Nov 2014 #32

If it's walmart it's the same damn trick they do with Sanyo PatrynXX Nov 2014 #33

"Wal-Mart" and "Made in USA" AngryDem001 Nov 2014 #35

I'm surprised China hasn't simply renamed a large manufacturing city 'USA'. tanyev Nov 2014 #36

! demmiblue Nov 2014 #37

, blkmusclmachine Nov 2014 #38

Now why am I surprised? deafskeptic Nov 2014 #42

Marcy Kaptur used to call them "Screwdriver Factories". Elwood P Dowd Nov 2014 #43

Wasn't there a law passed that made such labeling illegal? rocktivity Nov 2014 #46

i got one joglee Nov 2014 #47

Assembled in the USA is not the same as Made in the USA. 4lbs Nov 2014 #49

I do agree joglee Nov 2014 #50

Yeah. As long as the TV is truly assemled in the USA, then I can't really fault them for that. 4lbs Nov 2014 #52

Hmm. Going to Best Buy, one sees TVs with brand names of Samsung, Toshiba, Sony, Sharp, etc. 4lbs Nov 2014 #48

Of course no major electronics are made in America, we're too damn tall!!!! Revanchist Nov 2014 #53

the box says 'assembled in america', not 'made in america.' they hope u won't notice. eom ellenfl Nov 2014 #55

A great many products also so "distributed by" some US-based company Orrex Nov 2014 #59