Sharps1874
Cast Iron
- Joined
- Oct 10, 2002
- Location
- Boalsburg, PA USA
The OP strikes me as a no-nonsense fellow with a sense of personal responsibility and the big picture. I suspect he will be a good hire for some outfit. Far from being a "idiot" as someone suggested, he is doing what many of us do in other ways and at least sometimes.
We used to have three well-stocked hardware stores in my town. We now have just one. Home Depot and Lowe's arrived some years ago, and of course Amazon is everywhere with its free shipping if you have a membership (which we do). The loss of those two hardware stores has been huge in terms of personal service, convenience, and access to low-volume merchandise. I'll pay a premium to support our last hardware store. Not ANY amount, of course, but I'll make a contribution to help them stay in business. It's nice to have them around.
Some people will pay a little extra to support domestic businesses, some will pay more, and some won't pay any. Anyone in the last group has no right to complain about the loss of manufacturing jobs in the US. I think this young man understands that.
We used to have three well-stocked hardware stores in my town. We now have just one. Home Depot and Lowe's arrived some years ago, and of course Amazon is everywhere with its free shipping if you have a membership (which we do). The loss of those two hardware stores has been huge in terms of personal service, convenience, and access to low-volume merchandise. I'll pay a premium to support our last hardware store. Not ANY amount, of course, but I'll make a contribution to help them stay in business. It's nice to have them around.
Some people will pay a little extra to support domestic businesses, some will pay more, and some won't pay any. Anyone in the last group has no right to complain about the loss of manufacturing jobs in the US. I think this young man understands that.