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I think you’d have to do it slow, and with a ‘buy American’ campaign in the process. Some things would cost more, but the products would last longer.

Have you tried to buy any electronics lately. Some of it is okay, but other pieces are amazingly back-water type ‘door stops’.

I just purchased an iPod compatible speaker system that incorporated AM/FM radio, a CD player, and an auxiliary input in conjunction with the iPod itself.

Could have been a great little unit, but the programming and functionality of the unit was so ass backwards I had to return it.

Give me some sanity folks. Make stuff in the U.S., a place that at least has some logic left.

I think your friend is right in the long run. Our nation is better served by bringing back our dollars and jobs.

I’m convinced our products wouldn’t have to rise that much in cost, just because a guy down the block worked at the plant that made them.

We’ve been hoodwinked to a large degree.

I've been the manager of the lighting and electrical departments at a home improvement center for almost five years and worked in the departments for three years before that, and I have noticed a severe decline in the quality of the products we sell.

Eight years ago, Hunter ceiling fans were made in the USA and we might have one returned every couple of months because of a manufacturing defect. Now, we have several each week come back because of defects (bearings, capacitors, motors, etc...).

The same goes with the majority of our other products. A few years ago, we might have two recalls in quarter (out of almost four thousand items in the department), but now we have several a month (I think last month was the record, with seventeen different recalls out of lighting and electrical).

A couple of companies have gotten so bad on quality control that I have actually been forced to call corporate office and tell them to cease shipping me product from those companies.