Originally Posted by
ronlaughlin
Right or wrong, my opinion is the craftsman in the USA gets a bigger piece of the pie, than the craftsman in Spain. This is the reason i cannot with clear conscience, purchase a Rifle made in Spain for the same price or more, as a rifle made in USA. Of course my opinion is colored by the fact that i myself worked with tools manipulated by my hands, and this is how i fed my family, and my pension.
Im sure all of the stuff in your house is Made in America Only...I for one find that Value and Price is first on my list. If I can buy something made outside the USA that gives me more money to spend locally to support our Economy here, I get to spread the cash around a little better.
Now I personally would rather spend my money and have it go to Spain then to China. I was looking over some of the products that I have that are from TC, you'd think that good ol American TC would have all there products made in the USA right, wrong. I wonder how many other parts in there MLers or anything else TC makes comes from China also. They might be assembled in the USA but are they all American Made, I doubt it.
Look at some of the clothes you wear, hunting and non hunting, are they all American Made, nope, are all the pieces that make up your car or truck all made in America, nope. I'll bet that the majority of all the stuff in all of our Homes is made outside the USA. yet you trash anyone who buys a MLer that is made in Spain.
Our Econmy is'nt just based on what's made in the USA, it's based on what's made all over the world, were all tied togeather and rely on each other to keep things moving.
Sure I wish everything was made in America but it's just never going to happen.