Okay another concurrent giveaway!
Ends: 9/29/2026 @ 5:00PM PDT
Just doing a little test here to see what happens. You may notice lately, stuff gets a bit weird with the rules.
Trying a way to clarify it without getting the whole thing "📉'd"
RULES: https://t.co/MYypcOsnfo
@DineshDSouza@itispsychomath No Saar, you're the retard. You shout the same bullshit as zionists and jews. Me : "I don't support israel." You : "so you support hamas?!?" See same thing. You have cow shit for brains.
There is so much Made in USA fraud and exploitation out there.
Sometimes it’s from ignorance of the law but for the most part it is deliberate exploitation of legally loose language and definitions.
How would we fix ‘Made in USA’?
Well the entire point of the label is meant to show you a product of your homeland and one that it is contributing more significantly to our economic prosperity and American Workers than any other country or workforce.
Here are 4 simple steps we would take.
1. Clarify the ‘All or virtually All’ language. Far too many companies interpret this comically loosely, slap a % on it like 95% and add ‘by volume, quantity, weight & cost’ for materials used.
2. Add a ‘By American Citizens’ requirement. It’s frankly disgusting how many Made in USA brands use exclusively visa workers and foreigners to manufacture their products. This flagrantly goes against the very purpose of the label and is directly detrimental to American workers.
3A. Crackdown on misleading language.
‘Assembled in USA’ ‘Designed in USA’ ‘Made with American Materials’ ‘Made in the Americas’ ‘USA Strong’ these all mean the same thing ‘NOT Made in USA’ and are slogans explicitly designed to make you think otherwise. This type of advertising needs to be banned for the label to ever live up to it’s purpose.
3B. The paragraph above said, not every company that labels this way is the same. There are some companies that do contribute a lot to the American economy and American worker with significant manufacturing lines stateside that employ a lot of American Workers. Although this does not qualify them to use the ‘Made in USA’ label because they use foreign materials it would be helpful to have an official/defined ‘Assembled in USA’ label to show that these companies are still contributing significantly to National capability and the American Worker.
4. An improved FTC. A better dedicated national .gov page with clear and easy definitions and examples. More avenues of communication, community involvement and proactive education/engagement on social media. Spotlights (like that recent one on Liberty Tabletop would also be hugely supportive of vetted/proven companies). Easier fraud reporting and more teeth to go after violators.
The ‘Made in USA’ label is a fantastic tool to let Americans know just how much of their purchase is going back to support their own Country and Countrymen. Rampant deceptive practices entirely invalidate its purpose and undermine its effectivity.
Let’s give the label the respect, love and honor it deserves.
Demand American Made 🇺🇸
In 2005, Oneida shut the flatware factory in Sherrill, New York.
A town that had made silverware for MORE THAN 100 YEARS was supposed to be finished.
Two men refused to let that happen.
Their names are Matt Roberts and Greg Owens.
Roberts had managed that factory. Owens was another former Oneida manufacturing manager. When the company ended U.S. production, they bought the plant and the equipment and reopened it the NEXT DAY as Sherrill Manufacturing.
They did not have a giant rescue fund.
They did not have a Hollywood ending waiting.
They had a building, some machines, and a workforce that knew how to make forks, knives, and spoons.
At first they kept making product for Oneida.
Then Oneida pulled the remaining American work and sent it overseas.
That should have been the end.
It wasn’t.
They took government flatware contracts to keep the lights on. In 2010 they filed Chapter 11. They sold unused equipment. They sold space they could no longer fill. They leased back only the part of the factory they could still run.
They came out of bankruptcy in 2013.
Then they did the thing that saved the company.
They built their own brand: Liberty Tabletop.
They sold 18/10 stainless flatware straight to customers who wanted tableware MADE IN THE UNITED STATES.
Not through a department store that could drop them overnight.
Direct.
Today Liberty Tabletop is the only company still manufacturing stainless steel flatware in America.
Same town.
Same trade.
U.S. steel.
About 70 jobs.
They did not bring back 2,000 workers. Nobody did.
What they saved was the last line.
If you want American-made forks and spoons, this is the factory that still makes them.
Support Liberty Tabletop.
THIS is what keeping manufacturing in America actually looks like. 🇺🇸