Buy American Products & Services

Spending money is just-like VOTING. You may want to think before you buy. Here is a list of 20 companies that are NO LONGER American-owned:

1. Budweiser: Anheuser-Busch InBev, sold to Belgium in 2008 for $52 billion.
2. Motorola Mobility: Sold to Lenovo, China in 2014 for $2.9 billion.
3. Smithfield Foods: Sold to Shanghai Group, China in 2013 for $7.1 billion.
4. AMC Theaters: Sold to Dalian Wanda Group, China in 2012 for $2.6 billion.
5. Ben & Jerry’s: Sold to Unilever - a British-Dutch Company in 2000 for $326 million.
6. Burger King: Sold to 3G Capital, Brazil in 2010 for $3.3 billion.
7. 7-Eleven: Sold to Seven & I holdings, Japan in 1991 for $1 billion.
8. IBM P.C. Business: Sold to Lenovo, China in 2005 for $1.75 billion.
9. Firestone: Sold to Bridgestone Corp, Japan in 1988 for $2.6 billion.
10. John Hancock Financial: Sold to Manulife Financial Corporation, Canada in 2004 for $11 billion in stock.
11. Holiday Inn: Sold to Bass PLC, United Kingdom in 1988 for $2.23 billion.
12. Trader Joe’s: Sold to Aldi, Germany- Albrecht Family Trust in 1979 for an undisclosed amount.
13. CITGO: Sold to Petrleós de Venezuela, Venezuela in 1990 for $290 Million.
14. Gerber: Sold to Nestle, Switzerland in 2007 for $5.5. billion.
15. Ingram Micro: Sold to Tianjin Tianhai Investment Development Co. in 2016 for $6.3 billion.
16. General Electric: Sold to Qingdao Hair Co, China in 2016 for $5.4 billion.
17. Legendary Entertainment Group: Sold to Dalian Wanda Group, China in 2016 for $3.5 billion.
18. Purina: Sold to Nestle, Switzerland in 2001 for $10.3 billion.
19. Good Humor: Sold to Thomas J. Lipton Company — Subsidiary of Unilever in 1961 for (Inknown amount).
20. Lucky Strike: Sold to British American Tobacco (BAT) Industries in 1994 for $1 billion.

Will you STILL support them? Do you Care?