Imported Goods controversy

There is still much controversy about whether or not cheaper imported goods are of quite the same quality as the ones made here in the USA or once made here. When it comes to tools, some maintain the cheap imported tools are made of metals either too soft or improperly heat treated. Others argue that although some Americans may have suffered 'temporary' losses of income when the local factories laid them off so the manufacture could take place in far away lands, the over all benefit to the consumer outweighs the local economic setbacks and the overall quality of the tool is not lessened. These folk maintain they feel the same confidence holding a tool marked made in XXXX as they did holding a tool bearing the Made in the USA stamp.

So someone went to a local Walmart and purchased a crescent wrench which was not made in America. Surely this new lower cost tool would give every consumer confidence their new purchase was the equal of the older tools.
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I See What You Mean Ken
Kinda Like The Phony Money That Went Around Some Years Ago
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"In Dog We Trust".........................detective
Hello Ken,wave I have an older Chinese Gentleman friend, who immigrated to Canada, in 1958. Nice fellow, smart man, he never buys anything with the MADE IN CHINA label, confused I asked him why, and he told me, those items aren t made to last. Doesn t that say enough in itself.yay
uh oh That's just written slightly wackbards to make it easier for us to distinguish between the Metric Crescents and SAE Crescents. comfort
Current Chinese quality is a blessing compared to the 'made in Taiwan' tools we has in the 80's.

For the Chinese, I know Taiwan is part of China, for everyone else, I know it is not.
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