There is nobody to blame. Lets be honest.

Few businessmen in america except at the top are striking it rich. If you're payin guys in america even minimum wage to make things you can't compete trying to sell your product at the same price as someone who pays three cents an hour in manufacturing costs. If materials and worksmanship are good enough the guy with the slave labor is going to also be able to buy wholesale and smoke your small business off the market. It's just life.

If you are a small businessman trying to claw your way up the ladder it won't happen paying american wages when nobody else is.

You are the one that chooses your consumer habits.  You can get by with a lot less than you do.  You just choose not to.  Be honest.  Very little of what you need is exclusively made in China.  The overamped, hyperconsumeristic spending habits of our culture created this.  To compare to generations past is irrelevant and silly.  We want stuff.  Companies make stuff and sell it to us at the greatest profit they can.  To ask them to do otherwise is counterproductive.

A year ago I bought a Chevy, because I wanted my hard earned money to go to my fella North American...
Guess what:
Engine is made in China, transmission in Japan...
Next truck will be a Japanese one.

F-Manny

Years ago, I managed a hat factory. Walmart asked us to bid on a 1 million hat order for their "Buy American" program. We bid $3.06 per hat and lost the bid to a Tiawan company that bid $3.04. It eventually cost 100 jobs and closed us down. All for $.02 a hat. I'll gladly pay more for the quality and suitability of american made if the retailers will offer it. They don't even provide a choice anymore.

I don't trust any Chinese product after the scandals involving baby food, toys, and pet food. I'll save my money and buy American even if I have to do without the latest gizmo.

Chuck

QuoteOriginally posted by Chuck Jones:
...I'll save my money and buy American even if I have to do without the latest gizmo.

Chuck

Nice sentiment! I agree but we are in the vast minority.

Its not just the labor its the benifits also. Overseas there are no retirement or health benifits being paid in most cases. Not to mention taxes and liability.There is noway any company in the USA can compete when the overhead overthere is so cheap.
SL

QuoteOriginally posted by Foxtail:
Hera- yours is the only legitimate and realistic defence. I can't agree with those who accuse the companies that do business with China as being the culprits. That is sticking your head in the soil, because they wouldn't/couldn't bring products from China if we simply did not buy them. They exist because we support them. We are the ones to blame- we who vote for these trade practices with our dollars. If you are prepared to place the restrictions on your purchasing- which as indicated by the above comment, is very hard to do- then you have a right to criticize this practice. Otherwise, I sympathize with you- but the vehemence of your positions is eroded by where you spend your dollars.

Well said.
I don't buy the product made in china as possible as I can.But it is difficult to distinguish  the meterial from china.

JDS3...... I'm pretty sure Screaming Eagle is still made in Montana.  

There are a lot of us who frequent this forum who still make a product. Trouble is, most of those products are only for use in hunting or shooting.

Thank you Barney... I didn't know that any were still made in the USA.


JDSIII

Yep purchased one from Roy a month ago OUTSTANDING tree stand