Would you buy a $22 American made shovel when an $8 China made one is available?

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111. Golly. A little reality. Probably not wanted here.

I have refrained from posting on this thread since it seems full of the most superficial hogwash. Many here take delight in attacking the "evil" Chinese for doing exactly what the American corporation that speced the item wanted. The enemy is not China. It is shoddy work. In most cases, it is the fault of corporate greed guided by bottom numbers. If the corporation is providing a 12% return on stock investment but can make 12.1% by putting a thousand American workers out of a job and bastardizing the good name of a product, they are bound by the mission statement of corporate interests to do so.

Me. I would and have paid extra for good quality material made in America (particularly by union workers) over foreign made products. But, as you mention, the problem is sometimes the foreign goods are superior in quality and design to the American made goods. We make cheap crap here too.

I think unions should step up the quality demands from their corporate bosses and advertise that with a jingle.