Please share your figures as to how building the iPod in the USA will more than double the price.
You don't think that union wages, manditory health insurance, workers comp, unemployment benefits, Americans with Disabilities Act, etc. would increase the labor costs on an Ipod from $8 each? Get real!
(Don't forget all the components are also made overseas.)
It seems logical that if Ipod could have mede them as cheap in the USA, they would have done it. "Buy and Ipod. It's made in the USA!") But they didn't.