# damnnnnn if your a american look at this

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**Created:** [April 9, 2011, 10:10am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/damnnnnn-if-your-a-american-look-at-this/257789 "2011-04-09T10:10:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![toomanycamaros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@toomanycamaros](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/toomanycamaros)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2011, 3:45pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/damnnnnn-if-your-a-american-look-at-this/257789/18 "2011-04-10T15:45:17Z")

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> [@My sister's kid](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/my-sisters-kid/41083/4):
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> you guys are fucked up… for years this has been an import fanboi site… now, when its too late, there are complaints. Warning sirens have been going off for years, but the “I want it and I want it cheap” generation built these countries up, along with their engineering and infrastructure. Now many make a good quality or better quality product than here in the USA…We will not be an industrial nation again, and unions, laws and regulations prevent us from being competitive in many arenas.  
> Luckily we still co-lead the world in research and design…and weapons… but we were headed down hill when Obama tossed us off the cliff
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> !0 years ago China didnt graduate any engineers on their homeland…now they grad more than 10-15k of them a year. They have infrastructure, and are gaining in design… India has work ethic and brains, but no infrastructure…
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> Communism helps keep Chinas feet bound, but it will eventually let enterprineers run aloof and that wont be good for the USA either.
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> Want to buy something made in USA today? Hard to do and often questionable quality unless you drop coin. I.E. A Streamlight flashight may be one of the best, but a good one is $100 or more.
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> China makes new Snap=on flashlights sold at advance auto, and they sorta suck …sorta…but $20

That is the root cause of why nothing is mad in the states anymore. Anybody else remember why GM and Chrysler went bankrupt and the majority of their cars are assembled overseas? The UAW, not that I’m cracking on blue collar people fighting to make a good wage, but is it any wonder why everything is out sourced when it costs a manufacturer 30 bucks an hour plus benefits to produce something in America and probably a dollar an hour over seas. It’s really not that surprising that just about everything we buy is made overseas. I’m just as guilty as everybody else though too. I buy stuff at Walmart and sams club, but I don’t really have a locally owned competitor that isn’t some other big box store.

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