[JERRY2KONE]

A few years back the difference was obvious between one countries engineering and anothers. When you purchased a product like a carbon fiber bike that is made in the USA, or a real swiss watch, or some kind of one off German machine you knew you were buying something that has been made to percision by someone who is passionate about what they do. From thought to design, to production was maticulasly overseen to the smallest detail, and every item was true tested for performace. Now that the competitors are selling so cheap everyone has to cut corners to stay in the game.

The alternative was to purchase a copy cat product made in China or whoever, by people who had less than a quality product in mind. Their idea was to mirror another high dollar product and make it look just like the real or original item and sell it for half the price. Making a huge profit because their was no R&D to worry about, and once the item was sold who cared on their end if it worked right or not. What could anyone do about it?

Today China and others are turning out some pretty incredible copy cat items that not only look like the real item, but are exact copies to the "T" in quality and performance. Of course even today this is not always true and there are still allot of goof balls out there who could care less about what the product can do as long as it looks like it came from the original manufaturer.

We are begining to see allot of like items here in Korea that look very impressive up against the high quality American products, and also perform just as well or even better in some cases. The foreign competitors are getting smarter and gaining ground on all of their competition. This is just another reason why our economy is falling apart. The US has driven prices up so high because of compensating its staffing that we can no longer compete in allot of markets that we used to make a good amount of money from.