Buying by emotion
I buy American when possible and if I have a choice, which isn't often as so many internal parts of many appliances and so on all have foreign-manufactured components, but I do what I can in that area.
I'm a free market believer and I don't buy $25,000. cars or $2,000 computers or a $350. TV based on what contributions the manufacturer made to the 9/11 victims fund.
Charity is just that, charity. A huge corporation that donates a million or two to a charity doesn't even feel it, it's not 'their' money, it comes out of corporate profits and as has been stated, it's mostly just public relations. Nice, but not all that meaningful, compared to some $9.-per-hour guy who takes $20. out of his gas money to give to the same fund.
That's real charity, not just a tax write-off or PR move.
We're all free to buy from whomever we wish based on any critiria we chose to impose. No problem with that but personally, I don't use corporate giving as a guide to buying. Many very popular American companies give lots of money to homosexual groups, anti-second-amendment groups, pro-abortion groups and other activities that I oppose politically or on moral grounds. If I boycotted all of them, I wouldn't buy anything.
It can get crazy so I simply refuse to go down the road of making purchase decisions based on political stands or charity contributions of the manufacturer. That's my decision.
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