Reply #33: Some appliances are still made in the US, but I don't think Maytags are

[jmowreader]

We bought a laundry pair with Dubya's check. A couple days before the check arrived I went on a recon mission looking for a US-built pair. The only one I found that we could get for less than $1200 was a Whirlpool, which we got and it's been fine. Then again, we've only had it less than a year.

This bad major appliance thing isn't new or restricted to the US either. When Reagan was still in office I went to Berchtesgaden, Germany, on a tour and took the salt mine tour. (http://www.berchtesgaden.de/en/salt-mine-berchtesgaden) As our guide walked us through the mine, he pointed at a very old brine pump. "That pump is over 100 years old, runs every day and has never broken down. I have a washing machine in my house. It is two years old and nothing on it works."