Buy American Mention of the Week: Connecting patriotic businesses and consumers

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.wnd.com/2013/06/connecting-patriotic-businesses-and-consumers/?cat_orig=money

Exclusive: Roger Simmermaker on the truth behind the claims
Published: 6 days ago

If you’re like most Americans who want to help foster growth in our economy by supporting American companies and products with their consumer purchases, your focus is on patronizing companies that are creating, producing, growing, or selling products in the United States.

But how can you get clear and complete descriptions and characteristics behind all of the companies that claim that they make things in the USA so that you know which ones to support and that you know for sure that your consumer spending can truly have a powerful and positive impact on the U.S. economy?

The fine folks at Ameriloop know that buying American often involves much more than just the final point of assembly or manufacture of a given product. That’s why they have gone the extra mile to request more-specific details about domestic producers, such as:

Number of products produced
Percentage of parts originating in the U.S.
Percentage of products assembled in the U.S.
Percentage of U.S. processing of products
Percentage of business ownership by U.S. citizen or U.S. business entity
Percentage of employees that are U.S. citizens


FULL story at link.

Roger Simmermaker is the author of How Americans Can Buy American and the award-winning My Company ‘Tis of Thee: 50 Patriotic American Companies American Consumers Should Know About (Axiom Business Book Awards), and writes ‘Buy American Mention of the Week’ articles for wnd.com and his website www.howtobuyamerican.com. Roger has a degree in Electronics Engineering Technology, is president of his local Machinists Union, has been a frequent guest on Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC, and has been quoted in The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, New York Times, and Business Week among many other publications.

[Ilsa]

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