Actually, most folks don't want to pay the price of American made goods so the old line companies have no real choice but to move their operations overseas to remain price competitive and to stay in business. The cost of doing business in this country is extremely high compared to doing business overseas. Compared to overseas (China, etc.) where there are few rules and regulations and they dump toxic waste into their drinking water and pour pollutants into the atmosphere, it cost too much in this country to comply with EPA rules and regulations, workers comp, deal with unions and the local political environment, vacations, maternity leave and on and on. In addition, they don't want to return overseas profits because the Washington politicians want to tax the living $hit out of the profits that was earned overseas in order to support all of the welfare and giveaway policies (Obamacare et al) in this country of the Federal government.
Stanley remains a super company that offers great benefits to their employees and contributes huge amounts of money to the community. They can still make a super quality product...but John Q. Public ******* and moans about the price and quality, however, won't spend the money to support the overhead and cost of production...You can still purchase USA quality, however, it comes at a cost...
Rant over...
