[PugetSoundSoldier]

No kidding... I’m in a hotel room in Ningbo, China right now. Tomorrow I’ll be at a Chinese factory overseeing the first production run of a new woofer I designed in America (Woodinville, WA to be exact). Supporting electronics were designed by an Argentinean and the enclosure was designed by a Czech mechanical engineer, with the system voiced by an Italian.

Some of the woofer parts are made in China, some in Malaysia, and some in Brazil. It will be shipped to Australia to be installed in a finished, powered speaker system that will be sold in Europe by an American brand. By my count, that’s at least 8 countries and five continents!

I figure in the anti-capitalist group, I’m a traitor to at least 2/3rds the world’s population with this single deal alone...

[grey_whiskers]

There's a difference between multi-sourcing from the get-go; opening bids to prospective suppliers for the best deal; and arbitrarily requiring US workers to train in cheap foreign replacements and then masturbating that "American's aren't qualified."

Cheers!