No no no, you cannot only blame the consumer. Much of the outsourcing is done by massive corporations while private companies remain in business manufacturing their products like they have for decades. Examples include Vermont American purchase by Bosch -> China. Irwin purchase by Newell Rubbermaid, many Irwin tools now made in China, Irwin closes Vise-Grip plant in DeWitt Nebraska that had been operating for 80 years, now china. Stanley Tool Works, hell all Stanley products are outsourced and those use to be all US made tools now i cant find one. Sabina factory closed, MAC going offshore more and more, same with Proto.
Danaher, whome Sears has their contracts with and now Craftsman is at an all time high for imported tools. Matco, again going offshore in larger quantities.
Meanwhile companies like Wilde, Eklind, Mayhew, Jonhson, Wright, Vaughan, Channellock [just to name a few] are still making the vast majority, if not all, of their products in the States. How are these little companies able to keep on when other companies owned by giant faceless corperations with unimaginable wealth continuously have their domestic plants closed citing profit issues? Its all ******** damage control and PR spin. Like someone else said they're trying to turn a buck as fast as possible regardless of the long term effects. Do you really thing the shareholders or CEOs of Newell Rubbermaid gave two shits when they requested a plant that had been open for nearly a century be closed because they, according to them, 'couldnt sell their products'? The very same products that end up being sold at the EXACT SAME PRICE? Lets wake up a bit.
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