Pretty good deals at Harbor Freight...

[SpeedAssault]

THe Cheap comes from cheap labor basically you are buying and supporting another countries economy and NOt OURS

Spend the extra $2. bucks and you may have your job a while longer

All this outsourcing and producing products there are millions more $$ bought from overseas
think about

[BrianG]

Originally Posted by SpeedAssault

THe Cheap comes from cheap labor basically you are buying and supporting another countries economy and NOt OURS

Spend the extra $2. bucks and you may have your job a while longer

All this outsourcing and producing products there are millions more $$ bought from overseas
think about

I'm not sure that is a valid argument. There are SOOOO many things made outside the US (especially consumer electronics) that the occasional tool purchase makes little difference.

On that same vein, why are we all using lipos? I can't recall ANY that are made here. So, are we gonna all start using batteries only found in the USA? Probably not.

But hey, I agree with you though; outsourcing and producing products overseas is NOT helping us. But until labor and products on our shores are competitive with overseas costs, companies are gonna outsource. Plain and simple. US labor is just too darn expensive TBH to be able to turn the desired profit while keeping product cost reasonable.

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^^^^^^^^^It's that kind of stuff ^^^(above 2 posts)^^ that I really love about RCM. Were on an r/c site(toys, arguably) talking about a tool store and two intelligent people comment about the state of the economy and outsourcing. And they were both well informed intelligent remarks. I do enjoy this sharing knowledge thing. I missed you guys!