All-American Fourth of July
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, nearly $4 million worth of imported American flags are sold in the United States each year. The vast majority of this amount ($3.6 million) is for U.S. flags made in China. Show your independence on Independence Day: buy American flags, American fireworks, American hamburgers, American paper plates and American barbecue grills.
American Flags
American Flags Express
Flagexpress.com
12577 W Custer Ave, Butler, WI 53007
Phone:(262) 783-4800
Annin Flagmakers
-Oldest and largest flagmaker in the United States, winner of the Made in the USA Foundation Hall of Fame award.
Annin.com
105 Eisenhower Parkway
Roseland , NJ 07068
Phone: 973-228-9400
Fax: 973-228-4905
Cfflag.com
65 Shields Road
Huntsville, Alabama 35811
Phone: 1-800-633-2070
Fax: 256-851-2898
951 Swanson Drive
Batavia , IL 60510
Phone: 800-323-9127
Fax: 630-406-5932
FlagZone
www.flagzone.com
105A Industrial Drive
Gilbertsville, PA 19525
Phone: 610-367-9900
Valley Forge Flag
875 Berkshire Blvd.
Suite 101
Wyomissing, PA 19610
Phone: 616-916-6360
Fax: 610-376-4943
Consumer Fireworks Made in USA
Blackcatfireworks.com
5200 W. 94th Terrace, Suite 112
Prairie Village, KS 66207
Diamondsparkler.com
555 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
Youngstown, Ohio 44502
1-800-777-1691
Zambellifireworks.com
20 South Mercer St.
New Castle, PA 16101
(800) 245-0397
Paper Plates
Caspari
Casparionline.com
Dixie
From cups to plates, Dixie
®
has been helping make mom's day a little easier for over 90 years. Dixie is one of the largest U.S. manufacturers of paper plates and can be found at Walmart and many other stores.
Chinet
Since the 1930s Chinet has been making high-quality paper plates in the USA.
Made in the USA Grills
Based in Southern California, Alfresco manufactures all of their luxury professional level outdoor cooking systems in the United States.
Kalamazoo's
high end, handcrafted outdoor grills and pizza ovens are manufactured in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
MAK Grills
pellet grills were the first pellet grills to have a digital control. In 2013 MAK Grill was the first grill manufacturer to be inducted in to the Made in the USA Hall of Fame.
Primo Grills
are the only ceramic grills that are made in the USA, Georgia to be exact.
Some of
Weber's
grills, like the Classic charcoal kettle grill and the Summit and Genesis series of gas grills, are manufactured in Palatine, Illinois.
Brexit, Sschmexit
By Joel D. Joseph, Chairman, Made in the USA Foundation
I am jealous of the British voters because the voters there actually got the chance to vote on a critical decision of the government, whether their nation should stay in the European Union or not. By a slim majority, 52-48, the Brits voted to leave.
Recent public opinion polls conducted by the Gallup organization this year found that U.S. voters want to leave NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Association, by a 58 to 34 landslide majority, with eight percent undecided. Now this is a mandate, not the photo finish that happened in Britain.
Sschmexit: Leaving NAFTA
We should leave NAFTA because it has cost us two million jobs, mostly lost to Mexico, and some to Canada, with nothing gained. In addition, the U.S. companies that moved to Mexico have brought downward pressure on the wages of Americans still working here. The products that our companies make south of the border save the multinational companies money, but they do not pass the savings on to the consumer.
SSchmexit means Support Sovereignty for us: Canada and Hecho en Mexico --Exit. Like the United Kingdom, we want our sovereignty back. NAFTA, section 2205, allows the United States to get out of this treaty with six months notice.
Our case for leaving NAFTA is much stronger that the U.K.'s objections to the European Union. The U.K. has to compete with poorer European countries like Portugal and Poland. The U.K. pays wages three times that of Poland and twice that of Portugal. In contrast, the U.S. pays wages of more than five times that of Mexico, a third world country.
Mexico is our primary problem within NAFTA.
Within the past two years, eight automakers have opened plants and expansions in Mexico, including the Ford Motor Company.
In 2014, Mexico exported 1.7 million vehicles to the U.S., surpassing the 1.5 million vehicles exported here by Japan. Last year Mexico exported 1.9 million vehicles to the U.S., surpassing Canada as the largest exporter of cars and trucks to the U.S.
It is not just General Motors and Ford moving production to Mexico. (They don't charge less for their cars made in Mexico; GM makes Cadillacs there and Ford makes Lincolns south of the border.) Nabisco, maker of Ritz crackers and Oreo cookies, is moving production from Chicago to Mexico, joining such American icons as Levi's, Black and Decker, Hershey's chocolate, Carrier air conditions and hundreds of other companies who formerly made their products in the United States.
Mexico and Canada have fought our Country of Origin for food labeling laws. Canadian and Mexican meat producers challenged our Country of Origin Labeling Act (COOL) claiming that it violates the rules of free trade. Hogwash. Consumers have the right to know where their products are coming from.
In response to a flawed World Trade Organization decision, Congress caved in and took meat labeling out of the law last year. Congress did this even though ninety percent of American consumers want to know where their food comes from. And President Obama falsely proclaimed that we will never change our consumer laws because of foreign pressure. He signed the Congressional gutting of COOL.
We want our sovereignty back. We want to be able to buy American beef and not have it commingled with Canadian and Mexican meat. On the Fourth of July, Independence Day, do you want to eat a NAFTA burger or an All American Burger?
Let's Have a Referendum on NAFTA
The British referendum was not binding on the U.K. government. We can put a referendum on the ballot across the United States on whether the people, the voters, those who really count and matter (not the corporations who wield all the power) want to stay in NAFTA. The United States will vote against NAFTA quicker that you can say: "Sschmexit."
