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U.S.A. Store

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Hi,I'm a laid off senior automotive designer looking to get on with things and make some money doing something good, honest and lucrative. Serious discussion of this idea is requested. If you're not serious about the opportunity please don't reply.

Looking for venure capital, investors, partners, and like-minded individuals to bring some sanity and dignity back to the country AND MAKE MONEY doing it!

I wish to speak about a business opportunity featuring products ONLY made in the USA. Only USA made AND manufactured products...

This idea is in response to my disgust at what I discovered at the Epcott Center in Disneyworld. The World Showcase features many countries, the U.S.A. included. It's a nice pavillion kinda like Mount Vernon, where you can "celebrate America at the majestic Colonial-style structure that houses the inspirational The American Adventure theatrical show, the thrilling Hall of Flags, and a stunning, acoustically pure rotunda — home to the Voices of Liberty. Enjoy the rousing entertainment of the Spirit of America Fife & Drums Corp and the star-spangled line-up at the America Gardens Theatre on the pavilion's magnificent grounds. And if you're hungry, you can't beat the true American tastes at the Liberty Inn". Then you can spend your U.S. dollars to purchase good old U.S.A .red white & blue coffee cups, banners, buttons, flags and much, much more... ALL MADE IN CHINA!

WHAT THE !!#@%$#^*@#^%^$ !!!!

I was, and still am flabergasted, disgusted, and seriously dissappointed. I will never EVER spend another dime on Walt Disney products until this changes.

How can this be WALT?

I will start small. you can join me if you want to, if not get the heck outtamy way... I CAN get the products and this will build momentum for more products to be manufactured here in the USA. In this country, who would'nt go into a store next to your hometown grocery store which advertised products ONLY made by the U.S.A. ...well I can think of a few, but the majority of folks in this country WOULD! My idea is to lease storefront space and feature products ONLY made in the United States. Real and useable goods, not just frivolous stuff, clothes, furniture, electronics, tools, space heaters, hardware goods, things people use everyday. This gets your products and other U.S. made products in front of folks face every time they pick up groceries in the supermarket in the strip mall down the street. Kinda like the old Sears catalog showroom model. Orders will be placed in the store and either delivered to the customers physical address or picked up in the store itself. It's a reverse of what is now online but there has to be some greater physical exposure instead of cyberspace exposure to the option of purchasing U.S. made products. Here in Michigan, with the economy in the tank, people are keenly aware of the global manufacturing dilemma we all face in this country, and fiercely patriotic in the sense of supporting it's own people and manufacturing base in order to maintain our sustainability and be able to stand on our own two feet as a country. Lead in toys, Christmas lights and decorations, toothpaste... we've only scratched the surface on this one folks, & there's no real protection at this point by the FDA. Our government is taking it's merry old time because the old boys in Washington own a great deal of the factories in China. What better time to push for the USA! If we don't do it now then when?

Please reply soon, as my request is serious and believe the opportunity is ripe for my idea to be of great benefit to all involved. If you can't contribute financially to this venture, then voice your opinion to everyone you know, speak up, spend your money on products made in the U.S.A. or anywhere else but CHINA! Let's protect our own, and stand up for this country! Call your politicians and give them HELL then vote them out if they don't respond too the people's will. Take back the middle class. TAKE BACK AMERICA!!!

Bob Donnelly, Dec 11 2007

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As a design engineer in manufacturing myself, I sympathize with you, but I don't think you idea can work.

The sad fact is you wouldn't have much to sell in your store. The number of actual products made in USA is small and getting smaller.

When the President asks China to 'buy US products' to reciprocate for the trade deficit, I don't even know what products (besides food) we're able to sell. Boeings are made all over the world, the US has convinced itself that it can't make a small car profitibly, so small Fords and Chevys are re-badged Korean cars. They don't want SUV's.

When an analyst asked automotive journalist Csaba Csere how the US auto industry could survive, without a stutter, he said 'make small cars.'. Unfortunately, in the next comment, the GM guy next to him said the US can't make small cars profitibly, so they plan to source them from the Pacific Rim. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=374895790687237390&q=car+and+driver+csere&total=2&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0

Right now, I don't know how our US unemployment is so low. What are we all doing? Just outsourcing? I know that when my company outsources, I get twice as much engineering compared to if I'd been able to design it.

I'm afraid it's a house of cards.

hrench, Dec 11 2007

BTW, I'd love to hear a senior automotive designer's opin as to why the US doesn't design or build any small cars anymore and your accessment as to whether it's true that we can't design a small car and make money.

hrench, Dec 14 2007

New mileage standards will force U.S. automakers to either make a profit building smaller vehicles or get out of the business. This profit motive as such will in turn drive production overseas and we'll lose even more of our manufacturing capabilities. I agree we need better mileage results, but the U.S. has lost any foresight it had (if it ever did) and the capability of enforcing real fair trade.

Bob Donnelly, Dec 14 2007

America's only success has been in it's acquiring of a whole continent of resources and filling it with labour from the struggling world. This place belonged to the world (not the indians, not brits and europeans) all along. Doesn't it make sense? How long did you think it could last? Or did you think your success had something to do with god? Rebuild america on some prooven principals and then make your store. As long as capitolism is your central ethic, cheap labour will win, and communists will have an edge. And mickey mouse isn't american owned, let alone guided, neither is harley davidson, or america itself for that matter.Just be happy china chose to buy us instead of fighting us. It implies they'll be nice to us.

SAINTHUCK, Jan 18 2008

Sorry I love america, truth is the chineese are really smaller and probly not that good at war. Commies never invaded much with weapons did they? White ones paraded, yellow ones hammered and spaded and unlike us, er, ...mated.Am I a racist american? I only feel love for them.

SAINTHUCK, Jan 19 2008

I understand your concern and idea, but I'm sorry to tell you that this already exist[ed]s. WAL*MART/SAM*S CLUB was originally all-American made stores, but once Sam Walton passed away and other people took over, they took in new products which were not all made in the USA. But I guess the idea would go over well, I mean, hey look at WAL*MART!

CrystalMarie922, Aug 14 2008