When you buy goods made in the United States, you support the safety and future of another American family as well as your family, thereby ensuring the future of American tactical civil defense, writ large, not just this Substack.
Always avoid buying Red Chinese goods, ever aware that the outsourcing of American manufacturing overseas, and especially to Red China, has had catastrophic impacts on Americans since the 1970’s.
I first saw it when I was at Archbishop Kennedy High School in Conshohocken, PA from 1969 to 1973. The parents of many of my classmates worked making steel at Alan Wood Steel Company, a three mile steel plant on the Schuylkill River. Half way through my time there the steel plant was closed down resulting in their parents losing their jobs. Allen Wood Steel closed down due to cheap Red Chinese steel imports to this nation in the early 1970’s.
The decline of the Alan Wood Steel Company had a catastrophic impact on the local economy in Conshohocken, West Conshohocken, Bridgeport, Norristown, Upper Merion and Plymouth townships. As a small, family-controlled integrated steel company, from the early 1800’s, it was a major employer in the region. Its closure led to:
Job Losses: Hundreds of workers were employed by the company, and their departure from the workforce would have had a ripple effect on the local economy.
Reduced Tax Revenue: With the company’s decline, the townships would have experienced a decrease in tax revenue, potentially affecting municipal services and infrastructure development.
Community Assistance: The company’s historical contributions to local projects, such as firehouses, playgrounds, schools, and churches, were disrupted or ceased. This left a void in community development and infrastructure maintenance.
Sense of Identity and Self Worth: Alan Wood Steel Company was an integral part of the community’s history and identity. Its decline led to a sense of loss and change for local residents, and negatively affected families. I saw many parents move to places like Texas to find work. I saw many others fall into alcohol and drug addition to numb the pain of no longer having work. And that horror has only grown exponentially since then. See, for example, how the destruction of manufacturing in Philadelphia resulting in no jobs for working class Americans led to the fentanyl Hell of Kensington, Philadelphia, PA, a once thriving manufacturing neighborhood.
Basically, the Red Chinese offer a good for 1/3rd to 1/2 the American price. Once they drive out the American companies and put them out of business, they then raise the price higher than the American company charged. Why? Because American customers now have no where else to go to purchase that good. This pattern has been repeated thousands of times to the detriment of the livelihoods, creativity, happiness, security, peace, and stability of the American worker and the American family.
I know this for a fact because my brother in those years worked at the U.S. Department of Labor Trade Adjustment Assistance Program. His job was to visit various American communities impacted by severe economic dislocations, all of which were areas where a formerly thriving American manufacturing plant had shut down and its technological manufacturing knowledge, and oftentimes even equipment was shipped to start anew in Red China with minimally-paid Chinese workers.
If he found that foreign “competition” had indeed resulted in the “economic dislocation” of the workers, if they were union, they received some compensation payments and irrelevant job training from the Labor Department.
For example, my brother in 1977 went to St. Louis on a case where a steel plant had closed down. It had a huge contract to build a large bridge in that city, but the Red Chinese company came in and offered the same steel for half the price. The way this works is that the Communist Chinese Party subsidizes the cheaper steel until they dominate the market and then they raise the price to make it profitable for them in the future.
The city of St. Louis bought the cheaper Red Chinese steel and the American steel company, which was one mile from the bridge, went out of business. Result? One more formerly prosperous American community added to the thousands now described as the “rust belt.”
Support the Thousands of New American Job Creators
And there are thousands of other American manufacturers of goods not on Public Square. I highlight one below.
How a Simple Wool Pillow can Help Save the U.S. Economy
There are thousands of goods you can buy that are not made by slave labor by the Communist Chinese Party’s factories in Red China and marketed via their beach heads in the U.S. like WalMart and Harbor Freight Tools.
To ensure your progeny has a United States of America to love, search out and buy American great products made by great Americans. Take, for example, the beautiful, healthy, comfortable, and beautiful wool pillows now being hand made by The Woolshire.
The Woolshire features wool pillows because, as they prove in their research, you should not sleep on cheap, dangerous, plastic Red Chinese pillows and for your brain, blood, and body health you should not sleep on plastic. I can’t say enough about how comfortable their wool pillow and soft cotton cover is and how it has made a difference for my sleep health.
Wool pillows are natural, biodegradable, and cleansing. Wool is a natural product that is shorn annually. It is naturally anti-microbial, wicks moisture, and regulates temperature - keeping you warm in winter and cool in summer. Wool is organic and completely biodegradable, making it an excellent material for sustainability. Wool purifies the air by removing volatile organic compounds (VOCs) such as formaldehyde in the atmosphere.
We got married in 2019 and built our home together in northern Idaho the following year over a long winter. As we moved away from our 9 to 5 jobs and focused on our own home and family, we grew toward a more natural way of living in the foods we eat, the clothes we wear, and the pillows we sleep on. We both find that while modernity does bring great comforts, it is also shortsighted in much of its innovation. The problems it claims to fix are often riddled with even more cancerous results that won't be known until we find the cancer to be terminal. This is why we find ourselves constantly looking to the past to find the solutions we need for the future. Shortly after having our first baby in March of 2022 we decided that we wanted to greatly reduce the amount of synthetic materials in the home. It's becoming known that plastic is playing a role in infertility, reducing testosterone and sperm count, as well as causing increasing health issues. After learning that we were laying our heads on a conglomerate of plastics, glues, and poisonous chemicals for eight hours a night, we knew we had to come up with a solution. When we started to learn about the unique properties of wool, we decided it was the perfect material for a pillow. Wool is naturally flame retardant, self-cleaning, and temperature regulating. It retains its loft, is moisture-wicking, and it is very cozy. It has been used by humans for its incredible properties since the Stone Age.
We made many prototypes in the beginning to come up with our designs for our organic toddler pillow, our classic wool pillow, and our (not yet released) wool nursing pillow. We even made our baby his own all wool mattress! Once we came up with the perfect design we knew we needed to source our materials locally and manufacture ourselves. The cottage economy is very important to us as we make our wool pillows directly out of our home. We believe it is crucial to work with other cottage industries to create a localized system of products to ensure quality, support family businesses, and contribute to building healthy local communities. In essence, we believe the best way to create natural pillows is to work with our neighbors. We only live a couple hours from sheep country so we contacted a friend in Montana who pointed us in the direction of an early 1900s wool mill still in operation. The mill buys local wool from freshly shorn sheep, cleans the wool with organic soap, and then runs it through the carding mill which orients all the fibers in the same direction. We buy these wool batts to use in our natural wool pillows directly from them and know exactly the quality we are getting. As with sourcing the wool locally, we sourced high quality organic cotton grown in Texas for use in our pillow covers. Sourcing from American farms reduces supply chains, supports small family farms, and assures us that we are getting the highest quality cotton available. The cotton is USDA certified organic and is also GOTS certified from start to finish, ensuring no adulteration ever occurs. As the world moves faster and faster, we built something that allows us to slow down and really focus on working with our hands to craft the best natural pillow. The world needs less plastic, less chemical factories, and more organic fabrics, sheep, and quality goods. We started The Woolshire because we truly believe that we can make a difference one pillow at a time.
Maybe Start your Own Cottage Business
There is a significant trend now for post-high school American males not going to college or a university. Rather, they are now going to trade schools or community colleges to acquire job skills. Look up the number of higher institutes of learning closing if you want evidence and the increase in trade schools and community colleges.
Young, intelligent, highly skilled, hard working, and patriotic American males are sick and tired of colleges and universities hating them and forcing them to take CRT, DEI, “climate change” and “environmental justice” indoctrination classes.
Not having a victim mentality and realizing the opportunity cost of four years not making money then and the fact that most college degrees do not result in a job or profession anymore, they are studying a trade and starting small businesses to support themselves and their future children. Currently, 60% of college students are female and 40% are male. This trend will have a massive impact on this nations future.
Attending a trade school, learning a trade, and starting a useful trade business (electrician, stone mason, HVAC, plumber, mechanic, etc.) is a huge movement right now. Demonstrating wisdom, they know that this path ensures there are highly useful fathers to create the environment where American tactical civil defense flourishes.
In addition to supporting and buying goods from hard working, creative, American entrepreneurs who are manufacturing goods to support their families, churches, and communities, why not become one of them? Why not start a cottage business like The Woolshire?
You may never know the good you will do for American tactical civil defense, but know well as they used to say in World War II and the line I typed in typing class thousands of times on the old noisy Underwood type writers at Archbishop Kennedy High School, “Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.”
Probably one of the most important things I’ve read in a good while. My Moms family is from Bridgeport. Spent every summer of my youth there. I remember everyone talking about that closing down. My grandfather worked there right after WWI! (He was 13 years old). I read somewhere that if we only used American products in construction it would make a huge impact on the entire country. I’m all for tariffs, and the liberals should be too if they want to keep up the welfare state and high minimum wage requirements.
Probably one of the most important things I’ve read in a good while. My Moms family is from Bridgeport. Spent every summer of my youth there. I remember everyone talking about that closing down. My grandfather worked there right after WWI! (He was 13 years old). I read somewhere that if we only used American products in construction it would make a huge impact on the entire country. I’m all for tariffs, and the liberals should be too if they want to keep up the welfare state and high minimum wage requirements.