[quote=jpinpb]brian – I’m telling you the quality of shoes and clothing have deteriorated. The prices remain high for brand names, but 90% of it is made in China. It’s one thing to buy something that’s made in China w/a price tag that’s cheap to go w/it. It’s another thing to pay something like $400 for a pair of designer shoes that are made in China. And don’t anyone be thinking I’d ever spend that much for shoes to start with. But if they were, say, Italian shoes, I could understand. These are companies making money off their name and it’s a huge profit b/c it’s made in China. I just could never, ever. I’ll overpay for a house first. At least that’s still made here.[/quote]
Exactly, jpinpb.
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Brian,
Perhaps your experience is different from ours (and everyone else I know). Maybe you’ve managed to find goods made in China that were somehow equal to the quality we used to get in US made goods. Personally, I’ve never seen it.
I can give you one example after another where goods manufactured in the US were of far greater quality than those now made overseas. While we might have had to pay more for it initially, things usually lasted a lot longer which is better for our our wallets, and better for our environment (less pollution/fewer resources used in manufacturing, and fewer items to dispose of over time). You’ll have a very difficult time trying to convince most people that Chinese-made goods are anywhere close to US or European-made goods in terms of quality.
