So are you made in America? Really made in America?

by KCurtis Posted 2011/09/05 00:01:53

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Made in America

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So are you made in America? Really made in America?

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Since I was knee high to a grasshopper my LEGAL immigrant father installed the idea in me that being Made in America was a gift not a burden. As a child growing up even though my grandparents often spoke their native language I was taught to speak American English or as near to it as my dear father could. As I grew older I, like many teens didn't really understand the importance. I often questioned the wisdom and intentions wondering why this was all so important.

Now my Dad proudly served in WWII as enlisted. He fought for this country and for my rights to speak freely, to stand for the exceptionalism that this country has always stood for. The credits of this country are huge and pale other nations of the world. My Dad has been trying to convince Americans for decades the importance of patriotism; the importance of supporting American companies. He worked for Ford for 30 years. He wore his Semper Fi with pride. I think I have finally come to understand his passion.

So I just want to ask you, were you really made in America?

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CUDDLY BUT STILL CRABBY 2011/09/05 00:29:45

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I did my time giving back 20+ years in the US military and continue to give back today.

If there ever was an election that will determine the future of this once great Nation, November 2012 will have to be it. IF we're allowed to have an election................
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Tee Massad 2011/09/22 12:56:43

I really love it when some soda head posters here block you when they think their views are the only views that matter... and especially when they say get out of their country. This is also my country and has been all of my life, as so with my family all the way back to the 1800s. Hey "seadog6608" you have a problem buddy, get a grip!, Just because I feel that America should worry about the interest of Americans over all other countries out there... makes me the American and you the ass-kisser. Our politicians work for China, India, Israel, ect. not for the American people... if they did work for Americans our country wouldn't be in a economic mess like it is now.

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KCurtis to Tee Massad 2011/09/22 18:00:48

Correction, your politicians work for China, India and Israel because Democrats work for any one willing to pay them off.

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Tee Massad to KCurtis 2011/09/23 11:31:18

All Politicians are corrupted by lobbyist ... and they all work for these countries. No correction needed.

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KCurtis to Tee Massad 2011/09/23 11:42:57

Being correct never requires a correction.

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ren 2011/09/21 17:43:55

America isn't as great as some people say it is. There are quite a few countries that have certain freedoms americans don't have. For example canada welfare system is currently better. Most of america jobs are going to illegals that cross over from mexico.native americans you know the original inhabitants of america are treated like crap. Our country belongs to china.what else oh yea and religion is to heavily influencing our government what with only 7 out of 50 something states making gay marriage legal. There are entire countries where it is legal. Oh and not to mention the pay is crapy.

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KCurtis to ren 2011/09/21 23:09:39

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You're free to move somewhere else.

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ren to KCurtis 2011/09/22 03:16:27

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Oh that's a nice ideal. Im making enough to support me barely minus the used computer I have. I need more money to move. Oh wait I can't get more money because most of this countries money is going to illegal immigrants. How about we create more jobs. Oh wait we need money to create more jobs. Where's the money? China has it. So sherlock I can't move because this so called great nation is nearly broke and doesn't't take care of it's own citizens but they will bend over for another country and illegals.

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Tee Massad to ren 2011/09/22 13:04:47

China owns us... Israel gets millions of dollars from us, so does Pakistan and a whole lot more countries get money from us, but when we have tornadoes, flooding, & hurricanes our Politicians say we have no money to help Americans. True Americans would want the interest of Americans FIRST over all other places out there. All of our politicians are corrupt do to the lobbyist that lobby them in DC.

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ren to Tee Massad 2011/09/22 15:50:59

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Exactly. That's the point im trying to make. I keep hearing more and more about america the greatest country on earth. People keep forgetting about the millions of homeless here. The thousands that die of starvation and that our government no longer cares about us but they will give all our money and resources to other countries and illegals. Wake up america Patrioism get's you NOTHING these day's

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KCurtis to ren 2011/09/22 18:03:21

If you want a guvment to take care of you, move to Cuba or Venezuela.

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Tee Massad to KCurtis 2011/09/23 11:33:58 (edited)

Its not that he is asking the Government to care for him, but when our leaders say there is no money for people displaced by floods up north or tornadoes out west, when we are sending MILLIONS of Dollars over seas... there is something WRONG with that in my opinion. We need to put the interest of Americans first, all else doesn't matter to me.

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KCurtis to Tee Massad 2011/09/23 11:47:24

You need to move back a few comments, yes he did. I agree we should not be supporting any country right now because we are broke and can't afford to. But there are those liberals who believe that the government has no other duty than to hand out free money and benefits to our citizens. That's not their purpose.

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Tee Massad to KCurtis 2011/09/29 16:26:34

Neither is sending billions of dollars over seas, or allowing Congress to vote for their own pay raises, their better health benefits than most of Americans working their asses off to pay bills... and for politicians to think that we should do away with Social Security and not pay me what I have been paying into it all these years are real idiots... if this happens then America as I know it has become a foreign ass kissing entity, and they all need to be removed from DC.

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KCurtis to ren 2011/09/22 18:02:18

Here's a news flash... it's not the guvment's responsibility to take care of you, you have the same opportunity to take care of yourself as the rest of Americans.

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ren to KCurtis 2011/09/22 19:17:15

Ha read the constitution. The government was made to make sure americans have what they need to survive. They regulate laws. Our food. Our clothing. Our healthcare. What we can do and what we can't do. Hell there even trying to make it even harder for people to leave this country. So yes the governments job is to protect and serve the people of the united (divided) states (slaves) of america.

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KCurtis to ren 2011/09/22 21:36:11

Sorry clown, that's not what the Constitution says, should I send over a 5th grader to help you read it?

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ren to KCurtis 2011/09/22 23:32:46

Nice name calling. Way to show your age. Freedom of speech. Freedom of religion (which is taken to far at times) the right to bare arms (still a hot debate) the right to vote (at 18). The government does allot to try and help people but unfortunately corruption is rampant in this country. The constitution is a set of laws and guidelines created by james monroe thomas jefferson benjamin franklin john hancock and other to provide the citizens of this country with a guide of rights that the government will protect. Again unfortuantly people have corrupted the constitution and take it to there advantage. Our very government is corrupted so they rarely protect us anymore.

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seadog6608PWCM 2011/09/19 13:10:15
Tee Massad 2011/09/13 23:09:46

Have I mention that there are some weird folks on Soda Head yet? lol

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holly go lightly 2011/09/10 04:27:46

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Yes I am,but If I wasn't I'd be trying my damnedest to get here.
I am especially grateful to your dad and all the other immigrants that fought for and built this nation.And all the made here Americans that fought as well.
Are you still on the road?

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KCurtis to holly g... 2011/09/10 11:53:00

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No, in Memphis now for a spell. I'll be here 3 weeks then NC for a week for the next year.

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holly g... to KCurtis 2011/09/10 16:28:26

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OMG.I would have to call that being on the road if I was having to do it.
I need my nest near by and my favorite tea cup every morning.You are doing what we all wish we could be doing and are grateful that you are doing .
Are you going to write a book/article about your time out there?

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Tee Massad 2011/09/08 12:28:01

This is for all the Arab haters on this page....
- Over 3,500 Arab-Americans serve in the Armed Forces
- Over 5,300 Arab/Muslim Americans served in the Civil War
- Over 15,000 Arab Americans served in WWI
- Over 15,000 Arab Americans served in WWII
- Over 6,000 Muslims currently serve in the Armed Forces
- Over 7% of the Armed Forces are foreign-born
http://www.apaam.org/index.ph...

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seadog6... to Tee Massad 2011/09/19 13:09:51
Tee Massad to seadog6... 2011/09/20 01:49:09

Nah, I am an American and America is a country built on diversity and always will be, so all the men and women serving in our Military should be appreciated no matter their religion or their race. Thats how I roll... so don't let the door hit you on the ass.

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seadog6... to Tee Massad 2011/09/20 03:43:41
Tee Massad to seadog6... 2011/09/21 18:30:01

I think you are the sorry loser... and imagine in life you are a sore loser. As I have said I am NOT going any where. :)

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seadog6... to Tee Massad 2011/09/21 20:48:12
Crewshal to Tee Massad 2011/09/22 01:30:48

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Wont matter what contribution Arabs made.

.Arab/Muslim haters, live to hate,and love to hate.
They are upset that the Palestinians have the audacity to keep fighting the illegal foreign occupiers who hijacked their land,and continue oppress,build apartheid walls and Rip off their land,and won't just roll over and die or surrender their birth right.
They feel that Arabs should just behave themselves, while America and Israel run roughshod all over them and their land.

Most Arab/Muslim haters don't particularity like Blacks,Mexicans,Immigrants/Gays Atheist or.non believers either

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Tee Massad to Crewshal 2011/09/22 12:35:21

Yes you are so very right... I am watching my country turn backwards... into racists! The fact that we are worrying over Israel when our own country is in a DAMN mess ... shows me this is the beginning of a future that will only grow worse for all of us. We send millions of dollars there, but we couldn't spend the same on the Katrina victims, or to the people who have lost everything in the flooding up north. Sending millions of dollars over seas to all these countries when there are things here in AMERICA we could be spending it on ... proves to me that our leaders in DC need to a wake up call. Its time to put the interest of AMERICA over all other countries to get back to the original foundations that America was founded on, and it wasn't sending billions of dollars over seas back before the 1940s!

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Crewshal to Tee Massad 2011/09/22 13:47:11 (edited)

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To add insult to injury,do you know what Israel does with 75% of the money we give to them?

Buy more weapons and military hardware,so they can kill even more Arabs.

They buy those weapons back from the US,so you see its a never ending cycle where the bottom line is always $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ ,and use the bogus excuse,is that it is all about Israeli security,when the fact is Israel has more security Power,and Money than any nation in the middle east,with the most powerful military in the area plus the 100% backing of the US, plus they are the only one in the mid east with Massive quantities of WMD's,

so figure out why they need more protection, and from who they need protection from,because it certainly is not Hamas,or the Palestinians,whose most lethal weapons is suicide bombers if they can get close

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Tee Massad 2011/09/08 12:23:01

There have been many men & women serving our country... who's families came from all over the world to live in America. And there have been thousands of Arab Americans living here since the WWII that also served in the Military many of them hero's some of them congressmen after serving in the military. All races and relgions have served in our Armed forces and have been doing so for over a hundred years.
http://www.apaam.org/index.ph...

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Red Branch 2011/09/08 03:14:53

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I was made in America.

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Crewshal 2011/09/07 23:51:06

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Sorry,but I will choose truth and justice over loyalty and patriotism every time,So i guess that makes me un American anti-America or both?
By the way, I m also a Draftee who was sent to Viet Nam and am a disabled Infantry vet.

On the point of defending America,I am not sure that I was defending America from the Viet namese there,mostly I was trying to protect and keep myself and the other soldiers with me alive.

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maggiemay 2011/09/06 13:59:31

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Darn right I was made in America!! I have had a family member fighting for this country ever since the Revolution. I will never dishonor their memory,and the sacrifices they made and love they had for this country.
It may have faults, but it's still the greatest country on earth, and I wouldn't want to be anywhere else.

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star 2011/09/06 04:52:59

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Yes sir I have Indian Blood and they were the first made in America

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Mississippi lady 2011/09/06 02:59:32

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My great, great, great grandparents left England to escape Cromwell's dictatorship. I have always been a staunch patriot. I love my country; and would gladly do anything in my power for her.

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texasred 2011/09/06 00:43:22

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Damn right I was made in America. I'm a woman baby-boomer, so I never served in the military, but that doesn't change the fact that I'm proud to be an American; that I love this great nation; that I choke up when the National Anthem is played or when I Pledge Allegiance to the Flag. It doesn't change the fact that I will fight for what this nation is and what it stands for and that I will do my best to vote out any person that wants to change this nation into a socialist/marxist nation. I was made in America and I'm damn proud of it.

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chgo 2011/09/05 18:21:17

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Yes, as I have Native American ancestry. They only ones who are "Americans" are the indigenous peoples in North America (Native Americans, etc) and African Americans because most of them have Native American blood running through them.

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rightside to chgo 2011/09/05 20:04:52

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Each person born legally on this soil are Americans. The native Americans came from somewhere else too.

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