Honda Car Forum

Name one top quality American product available at any price. I will
bet you that it falls under one of the following categories:

1) I already own it or am considering purchasing it.
2) It is a product that I have no use for.

There's a lot of products that are simply not available in top quality
form from any American manufacturer. The reasons for that are not the
fault of any one individual consumer, and I refuse to feel guilty for
purchasing foreign made products in that instance.

nate

On Dec 18, 2:10*pm, "Mike Hunter" <mikehunt2@lycos/com> wrote:
> If Americans did not buy imported products, retailers would not stock
> imported products, and American companies and Good paying jobs they provided
> would still be around.
>
> Yours is the greedy American consumer convoluted attitude that has led toso
> many of our manufacturing going off shore. THAT is why the good paying jobs
> of people like you, your neighbors, you children and your grand children are
> going off shore. *The only "good" thing about that has been a huge portion
> of our pollution went off shore with the jobs. * If guys like Al Gore, Obama
> and the Governor(s) of California, New York and Pennsylvania have their way
> soon all of our manufacturing and pollution we be off shore as well
> LOL
>
> "N8N" <njna...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:0e5b90f4-0c02-446b-9b89-4cd90bbe70ec@d36g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
> On Dec 17, 10:21 pm, "Ed Pawlowski" <e...@snet.net> wrote:
>
> > Skilled blue collar workers, once the backbone of the middle class are
> > going
> > fast. Rather than become mechanics and machinists, we want to be account
> > managers and administrators. Rather than pay $35 for a made in the USA
> > shirt, we'll go to Wal-Mart for that $12 made in Bangladesh shirt.
> > Cameras?
> > Computers?
>
> I understand your position Ed and I do respect it. *I'm definitely
> anti-Wal-Mart and shop also try to support my local hardware,
> plumbing, etc. stores whenever possible (but they do make it hard for
> someone who works 8 to 5...) the problem is that in the case of cars
> (and other goods too,) your Bangladeshi "shirt" is likely of higher
> quality than the USA-made "shirt" as well as costing less, so what's a
> consumer to do? *There's conflicting principles at work here... one
> does not want to support sweatshop labor and outsourcing of jobs (not
> that cars are typically made in sweatshops, but garments may be) but
> then again I firmly believe in buying the highest quality product for
> my dollar, because we've already been flooded with cheap, low-quality
> junk, and even in instances where I judge that the cheap product may
> get me by, the pro-grade, high quality (tools, replacement auto parts,
> plumbing supplies, door hardware, insert whatever you're shopping for
> here) are so rare on the ground that I feel some obligation to support
> manufacturers of high quality products no matter where they may
> originate.
>
> I was just ranting about this fairly recently on another newsgroup...
> a common household product seems to be a shower caddy with an
> expanding, spring loaded pole with a couple wire basket shelves that
> sits in the corner of your shower. *I wanted one for my house, as my
> tub/shower area is tiled nearly to the ceiling, and there's no handy
> place to hold soap, washcloths, etc. *All the ones sold in stores are
> chrome plated mild steel; I had to mail order a stainless steel one
> and it took a good bit of searching to find it, and the source from
> which I ordered it could not get one for several weeks. *Now anyone
> with any sense knows that unless one polishes the chromed thing
> regularly (a chore about as appealing as cleaning wire wheels) it'll
> rust noticeably and look shabby fairly quickly. *And yet, go to the
> store and that is all you find... for maybe $20-30 less than the good
> product that it is imitating, which you have to specially search out
> and mail order...
>
> nate

On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 07:10:31 -0800, N8N wrote:

> Name one top quality American product available at any price. I will
> bet you that it falls under one of the following categories:
>
> 1) I already own it or am considering purchasing it.
> 2) It is a product that I have no use for.
>
> There's a lot of products that are simply not available in top quality
> form from any American manufacturer. The reasons for that are not the
> fault of any one individual consumer, and I refuse to feel guilty for
> purchasing foreign made products in that instance.
>
> nate

Yup.

But the problem is, while an American made unit may be "Top" quality, you
can usually find one Made In Japan for 2/3 of the price, and just as good.

Sometimes I need something for a special purpose, or a single use, or to
perform some crazy experiment with. Then it's off to the Dollar store
where the "Made in China" label is prominent. I know it's only going to
last one or two uses (or less if I'm trying some crazy experiment...) but
I also probably saved a boatload of money, too.