"Lee Michaels" wrote in message
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That seems surreal in an environment that worships sending off all our
jobs to China.

If in fact it would be a lot more expensive to manufacture it in the USA,
why did they choose to do it? Any reliable gossip on that?



If quality is better sales should be OK. Festool is expensive and doing
well. Consumers are willing to pay extra for quality but not extra and
lower quality.