Hankfan, I totally agree and am known around work as they guy who tries to buy only US. It' s hard to do and sometimes there' s no other choice than to buy foreign, but I try my best. I don' t understand how people can complain about low unemployment and then make NO effort to support the companies that haven' t packed up and split- Like Levi' s did. Laid off 5000 employees and set up shop overseas.

Get this, last week I went to buy an electric smoker my co-worker had been raving about. I go to Wally world and find the one recommended.
Brinkmann- couldn' t find anywhere on the box where it was made, so I opened it up and found the buried owners manual- still no " made in..." , So I write down the # and call them. They said their vertical pits are made in Louisiana and the horizontals in Tennessee (I think). I asked them if they made it in the USA, then why not put it on the box??? no reply.
When I assembled it today I did have to peel a " made in China" [X(] sticker off of the two wire grills and the water pan.


As a country we better watch out and not piss off the Chinese. If they ever get mad at us and stop sending us our shoes, we' ll be barefooted in no time[].