John Horner wrote:
Over the years I have sometimes been a Buy US only tool buyer and
sometimes a whatever is cheapest that I think will do the job buyer
and just about everything in-between. Many years ago I was ashamed
that I had bought some no name Japanese combination wrenches, but
guess what, they are still good wrenches 30+ years after they were a
guilty bargain.

Presently I'm avoiding anything Made in China as much for
geo-political reasons as anything else. That and it saves me time
not even having to look at the Harbor Freight or Grizzly catalogs
.

Where to the rest of you sit with this question?

Personally I don't much worry about it. The sooner China is dragged
kicking and screaming into the First World the better--right now
they're a huge pool of cheap labor and they're going to keep
undercutting everybody's prices until they become a huge pool of
expensive labor, then they're going to become the world's largest
market and outsourcing a lot of work to places like, well, everywhere
including the US.

In the medium term a wealthy China is going to be good for the world.
Long run, who knows?

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