We just watched HBO's "The Last Truck" (to the good people of Ohio)

[Omaha Steve]

So hard to take watching a plant close down. So hard to know much of the US steel belt is rusting away. We can't survive as a nation of service workers alone. We knew the press about wages was PR from conservatives on CNBC etc. No surprise there. This while Wall St. was handing out billions of extras from other bailed out companies to BIG to fail. These same people destroyed the savings and or pensions of many. My 85 year old mom had her pension cut in half on Jan first.

Late last month we bought a Cobalt. It is made in Lordstown, Oh. The first thing I did was contact the UAW (Local 1714) for a sticker for the door jam. Marta's Canadian made Equinox she got in May had one when we bought it. A week later at a pro-choice rally, a lady mentioned she was from Ohio. I mentioned my new car. You can't believe the thank you I got from her.

The last time we bought a new car was 1979. We are glad we were in a position to help GM in troubled times. Cash for clunkers made it happen. Legacy costs keep coming back in the economy so many times over. Like an old commercial used to say "We Are ALL in This Together".

We have many DUers that are on hard times, without work, with two jobs and no benefits, without health insurance, without hope. Decisions to buy made in the USA can help get America back to an economy of workers, that works for all. It all starts with the next purchase we make, one shopping trip at a time.

If companies start to feel the resistance to imports, they will change. Fill out the survey card on items made outside the US. They will get the message.


OS