[MotoSook]

Reminds me of the scene from the movie "Outsourced" when an American calls the order center in India and was angry that he was buying and American Eagle figurine made overseas and being sold through an Indian sales rep.

The rep kindly said she was sorry things were the way they are, but that she'd be happy to provide information to a company that sells the exact same figurine made in the USA and sold in the USA for something like 10% more.

The caller calmed down and ordered the figurine through the India rep.

(That's loosely what I recall of the scene)


Making all American tools may be difficult since a lot of the smaller parts to assemble your tools wil be difficult to source in-shore. Anyone know what percentage of Craftsman or Sears tool is made off-shore? I think you'd be surprised.

I know of a large $ product which was "Made In Canada" and purchased bought for a multi-million dollar project. It said so on a very large name plate rivoted to the product. Within days of being in service, the product cracked and could have caused a major accident. Further investigation revealed the casting was made in China and the Canadian company fluffed the paper work since it was really assembled in Canada. I can't imagine the dollars that would have been paid to the end user if there had been a major accident.

Besides the material issues...you'll have labor cost issues with the unions. You'll never get costs down enough to make a product that makes any sense to a large enough group of patriotic buyers.

I'm all for keeping jobs from going overseas and I'm all for quality....but the manufacturing environment in the USA just is too extreme.