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<blockquote data-quote="wickedwitt" data-source="post: 7643027" data-attributes="member: 622908">I understand that completely. I was merely stating that some people take the &quot;made in America&quot; thing a bit too literally. I&#039;m all for quality American products. I would like to see the job market in America thrive again. I (like many of you here), however, am too cheap to pay the pricetag that comes from something that is 100% American manufactured. Look at what happened to the auto industry. A GM truck costs 50,000. At first, it was to pay the ridiculous union salary of the people making the vehicle. Now, you get a lesser quality product (from Canada or Mexico more often than not), and it still costs 48,000 because GM is having to pay retirement fees out the wazoo to those employees that took early retirement packages when GM had to downsize in the bailout. I love me some GM. I don&#039;t think they have the greatest business practices in the world, however.Cutting costs by outsourcing has been a consumer driven occurance, not manufacturer. I have said that on these forums many times to the people who would sit here and whine about all the &quot;mainstream&quot; audio companies going overseas. They did it because we forced them to. We stopped being loyal to a company and all started price wars amongst the businesses. We caused the crappy product and now we have the right to be mad at them? Certainly not.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="wickedwitt, post: 7643027, member: 622908"] I understand that completely. I was merely stating that some people take the "made in America" thing a bit too literally. I'm all for quality American products. I would like to see the job market in America thrive again. I (like many of you here), however, am too cheap to pay the pricetag that comes from something that is 100% American manufactured. Look at what happened to the auto industry. A GM truck costs 50,000. At first, it was to pay the ridiculous union salary of the people making the vehicle. Now, you get a lesser quality product (from Canada or Mexico more often than not), and it still costs 48,000 because GM is having to pay retirement fees out the wazoo to those employees that took early retirement packages when GM had to downsize in the bailout. I love me some GM. I don't think they have the greatest business practices in the world, however. Cutting costs by outsourcing has been a consumer driven occurance, not manufacturer. I have said that on these forums many times to the people who would sit here and whine about all the "mainstream" audio companies going overseas. They did it because we forced them to. We stopped being loyal to a company and all started price wars amongst the businesses. We caused the crap[I]p[/I]y product and now we have the right to be mad at them? Certainly not. [/QUOTE]

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