[Bobcat]

Ron , another factor is our punitive tax structure on Corporations and business . A few years ago , I spent some "off site " time with some of my upper , upper level management and one of the things we unofficially talked about was our opening plants out of the US .... guess what , our tax structure was a major factor , as was Unions . I have also heard that when Daimler and Chrysler were merging , they were looking at where to locate the headquarters for the new Corporation . If they named the company Chrysler Daimler and located here , they were at a 15 % disadvantage over naming the company Daimler Chrysler and locating overseas because of the US tax structure .
Like you , I try to buy as much American made stuff as possible , but it`s getting really difficult .