Made in USA

 In the 1970s/1980s, we were buying products where the label on the back said made in USA...  we later discovered that these products were made in USA, Japan...  a town was specially named USA in Japan so they could make that claim...  the public was fooled but not for long.

BUT HERE IS THE DILEMMA...

because American workers are paid more than workers from other parts of the world which also includes paying workers for holidays, vacations, and providing health insurance, the COST OF LABOR is substantially more in the United States than it is in third world countries.

SO...  because of that high COST OF LABOR, American companies decided to manufacture overseas where the labor costs are lower...  as a result, the companies are selling their products at a cheaper cost.

If we want to buy from those companies that manufacture in the United States, then we must get prepared to pay TWICE AS MUCH for that item.

The American consumer is currently bitching about the high cost of FOOD, UTILITIES, and GASOLINE and that they are living from paycheck to paycheck...  

How do you think this same consumer is going to feel if they can only purchase goods that are MADE IN THE UNITED STATES?

I just purchased a replacement female end of an extension cord from Lowes for about $5 and it was made in CHINA...  I would have paid $10-$12 for that some item, if it had been made in the United States...  I can say this honestly because there were some of those items on the shelf and I elected to buy the cheaper one which in my opinion was just as good.

I buy Japanese vehicles because they are manufactured better than vehicles made in the United States.

I've been in auto manufacturing plants in the United States and there is a hatred between management and labor that results in labor getting back at management by not caring that much about their job resulting in poor quality of an important item that goes into our American vehicles.

Most of the companies that manufacture parts for American vehicles are located in the SOUTH because labor costs are lower than in the north.

This is just the type of country that we have grown into becoming...  there is not right or wrong...  it is just the way it is nowadays.