Dirty Jobs guy on Hannitty..."I can see blaming consumers for not buying American"

[Boxerfan]

I had to do a double take as I wasn't really paying attention to the schmoozing Wal-Mart shill...
But when he said that as part of his commentary I had to do a WTF???

Are you freaking kidding me?? The gall to blame the American public for not buying American when everything the show you are on & the company you are promoting has done EVERYTHING possible to undermine the American worker.

The real story that should be headlines is how Wal-Mart is the largest user of food stamps by Proxy because they don't pay enough to the workers. If your so damned against welfare why not start at the corporate level where the teat sucking is refined to a giant hoover sucking the cow dry.

And your buying policies forces thousands of American jobs overseas...

I'll say this Mr. Rowe....

Have you no shame?

[TexasTowelie]

1. Nope he doesn't. He was at a Romney campaign rally in 2012.

[NYC_SKP]

3. Was there, but never endorsed him.

Self promoting? Maybe, but didn't support Romney.

[TexasTowelie]

9. Agreed, he didn't make an endorsement, but more than likely he voted for Mitt in 2012.

I won't post the link to the Daily Beast article though.

[tjwash]

2. Hucksters never have any shame.

You should see the responses he has on his FB page - he tries to come off as a "shucks -o- golly I'm just a regular Joe" while he has a staff of PR people working OT to draft BS response after BS response.

Just another paid snake-oil salesman.

[NYC_SKP]

5. I have to ask if you know anything at all about the Skills Gap and the decline in respect for US job

forces. He supports high paying jobs.

http://tradeshub.mikeroweworks.com/union/

http://www.youtube.com/user/mikeroweWORKS

http://www.mikeroweworks.com/home

[Union Scribe]

4. I have no use for that guy, but consumers do have responsibilities

It's about walking the walk. Money where one's mouth is. That sort of thing. We need to inform ourselves as buyers. You're right on about Walmart. I've seen those commercials and they're trying to come off as supporting American manufacturing because they know how they're seen. They know we know they're full of shit. We just have to keep it up.

[NYC_SKP]

6. Absolutely. We've been brainwashed OUT of buying American Made goods.

NAFTA was supposed to raise the living standards of workers abroad while we got higher paying white collar jobs.

What a load of crap that was, we destroyed our manufacturing base from appliances to electronics to garments to steel, to....

[mwrguy]

7. Fuck that guy

and his buddy Rmoney, too.

[bullwinkle428]

8. Can Mike Rowe explain why his own "Mike Rowe Works" watches

are made in China? So he's essentially putting the blame on the very people that buy his own branded products.

[Romulox]

10. Sorry, when I see union members here bragging about their imported vehicles, he has a point. nt

[Godhumor]

11. So Mike Rowe, the guy who promotes a return of the blue collar middle class goes under the bus?

OK then.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

12. Un-freaking-believable. Im satisfied with the explanation he gave to Thomas Roberts,

this morning I think it was, on Not-mourning Schmoe.

The OP is also wrong, Rowe has talked about how Walmart workers are on food stamps and he didn't seem afraid to say openly that he's using Walmart as a means to an end, not that he's particularly enamored of them besides their pledge to buy a $250,000,000,000 worth of American made products over the next ten years.

[Johonny]

13. Doesn't it have nothing to do with the consumer and everything to do with the market

We purposely allow goods into our market that have no cost adjustment for being made without a living wage, environmental standards, work place safety, work place harassment, etc...

Most markets in the world allow foreign goods in too. Their consumers aren't sell outs for buying them and neither are we. The sell outs are the politicians that refuse to put tariffs on goods, that refuse to limit imports, and refuse to force American standards on imported goods. That is something most foreign market places that are successful at maintaining a certain level domestic manufacturing do. It used to be we argued about if America was too protective of our markets, now we are such a doormat when people worry about being over protective you look at them if they are crazy.

It is one thing to complain about consumers when the store self has an American good and a foreign good and the consumers always buy foreign. But hell how often do you even get that choice anymore. And yet many, many Americans go out of their way to find American made brands when they can. I see no evidence Americans are selling out American products.

[sakabatou]

14. They have none