Buy American

"BUY AMERICAN" seems to be the New Chant now..."MADE IN AMERICA"...does not mean what it used too.
Too many Original American Companies are Owned or Controlled by out side Interests...

And with Today's Technology and Proprietary Information...It's very hard NOT to cross the Lines. Also let us not forget about OEM's (Other Equipment Manufacture) that may be installed or part of something 'Made in America'...That may or may not be a Major Part of the Product...

I am going to try and stay Non-Political in this...These are just my Memories and Thoughts Now...

A few, well maybe many...back in the late 80's and Early 90's I worked for a Very Large Company...Oh hell...I worked for "GE" a very low level Electronics Engineer...In the Housewares Audio Div. (Advanced Engineering)...Yes the Idea or Concept Guys...and at times Revers Engineering Others Products.

Anyway we would work on the Design of NEW Products...Building small sections of Circuits and getting them to work and do what we wanted it to do...
There are certain steps that we took from peg boarding wire-wrap the circuit to laying out and Taping a Prototype circuit board...
Various two too three man teams would be working on different sections of the Project...
As we were bringing parts of the circuits together we would be searching for parts that could combined into a Custom IC. or IC's...

These Designs would be taken to Hong Kong or Singapore to be Manufactured as Custom IC's for GE.

At that time in this Country we still had some Great Printed Circuited Houses and some Board stuffing Companies with good insertion equipment.

GE also had places around the country that could Assemble and Build these Products...I had a chance to visit some of these Plants...The people were Happy They had Good Jobs and were Making Good Money.

One of the Projects that I worked on was the "Toast-r-Oven" and various other Models (made in America) ...This whole line was sold to Black & Decker...

I will say No More...Except 'Buyer Check It Out'...If you want to 'Buy American'





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