[jimbug]

Just got a pair of shoes at our Red Wing Store and learned something interesting. Red Wing products are American-made.

The store manager told me that the reason that most shoes are made offshore and not in America has little to do with the wage differential. It is the EPA, which so over-regulates the manufacturing process with restrictions on glues, etc. and chemicals used in the leather making process that it forces companies overseas.

It's not that the American worker is non-competitive, quite the contrary, it's the regulatory mechanism that the D.C. bureaucrats have imposed on us so they can cash in, at our expense, on their bloated pension and gummit benefits.

[Boogieman]

Yeah, my buddy would only buy Red Wings because they were the only boots he could find that were made in the USA. Good boots too, they will last a long time if you take care of them.

[TalonDJ]

“made offshore and not in America has little to do with the wage differential. It is the EPA”

Why do you think microchips and high tech stuff are made in China? Pollution regulations and others. Same thing for gobs of other products.

[AFreeBird]

RedWing shoes/boots, are the best.

[fwdude]

Just got a pair of shoes at our Red Wing Store and learned something interesting. Red Wing products are American-made.

Not true. They're made in the Socialist Republic of Minnesota :)