What knives are made in the U.S.A.?

It's just not destroying our economy.Italian,German etc,are not a threat to manufacturing.We buy very little of their exports and at least they are usually of high quality.China,Korea,Indonesia,Malaysia,India etc. are the biggest manufacturers of electronics,clothing,shoes,hardware.All your Christmas decorations are made in China.All the while when we purchase these items we are supporting low wages,inhumane working conditions,child labor,low quality products.We are feeding money into a Country that pretty much dislikes us,and cutting are own workers throats in the process. Buy all imports if you like,but it will come back to haunt us later,trust me.
 
We are feeding money into a Country that pretty much dislikes us...
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Well, it's damned hard to find a country that LIKES us.

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Yeah, I think we all need to minimize our buying from other countries......but much of it will continue and even increase as greedy people seek to take advantage of low-cost labor and make big profits.

I too, wish they could be stopped totally. I think the best we can hope for is to cut it down some.
 
I like Martin but the two I had were harder to play than my Ovation Elite or even my mid level Fender Acoustic. I lowered the strings by taking out all the shims but it still was a hard one for me anyway. I do like the tonal quality of a good Martin though.

I guess the Ovation turns me on because when I played in a band string replacement was a snap in a pinch and I just got used to that and the light action and kind of spoiled, much the same way that Spyderco has spoiled me with knives being sharp. Now when I get one from anywhere else I'm disappointed in the edge.
 
And you know what... Ovation guitars sort of look like Spyderco knives, don't they?

I like Ovation, too, but they aren't my first choice.
 
Of the price paid for a car, a small portion of it would go back to Japan. Most of it would pay for the factory where it is made, buying parts and steel, advertising (in US media), and employee pay/benefits.

With almost any industry or business, most companies will have no more than 10% "net profit," give or take a few points, unless it is an exceptional year or quarter. If it's a publicly traded corporation, the profit is either reinvested or given to stockholders. There isn't some big sinkhole the money goes into where fat men buy steaks from the devil.

In the case of Japan, they are the last country that would ever be on our bad side in a war. But that doesn't matter, as the manufacturing ability, the big issue when it comes to a war, is in the US or Canada. Buying a Honda is no more of a bad thing in that regard than buying a Ford.

Just wondering, have the auto unions ever demanded that Ford start making cars that don't blow up at night, lose wheels on the highway, or stall when you use the blinker so the union members will have more secure jobs? Or how about just getting that defect rate lower?
 
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We are feeding money into a Country that pretty much dislikes us,and cutting are own workers throats in the process. Buy all imports if you like,but it will come back to haunt us later,trust me.
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Very true, but keep in mind, it is American CEO's that have transferred manufacturing to foreign companies in order to please American stockholders that demand ever-increasing stock dividends on their portfolios. We like those high salaries, but we want inexpensive products. So these companies go where the labor is cheap so they can keep those profit margins high. We lose jobs, and we lose quality in the products, but Americans seem willing to tolerate lesser quality for a better price. Thus, it gets harder and harder to find any American made products. We are no longer a manufacturing nation, we are a service nation. We shuffle paper and that is about the extent of it -- and we don't even make a lot of the paper either. It is all about the bottom line, and I am about to become a victim of that too, as my job is outsourced to India, and I am forced to train the very people that are taking my job. This is the new America, about to be absorbed into the new global community.
 
Oh,I'm aware of the reasons behind outsourcing.In one word "greed".Unfortunately,these large wages are not enjoyed by most employees.These are reserved for high up management.Even in large companies like I.B.M, a botom barrel manufacturing employee get's paid about $8-10.00 an hour at best.This isn't exactly breaking any wage records in an area where the average rent is $1,000.00 a month and house is $250,000.00 average.This is coming right from experience living here in the Hudson Valley,NY area.In any case,we can blame companies and CEO's,stock holders, Yes! We can also blame the consumers that have choices to purchase items made in the USA.If we would have all put pressure(read boycott) we would not be in this position.Sorry about your job going to India,I'm sure many companies will likely be following the same path.Ultimately,the consumers can push for change by voting with their dollar.
 
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