It's the Manufacturing, Stupid!

All that gloating over Toyota's and other foreign companies' troubles have come back to haunt American manufacturers big time.  Now it's Fisher-Price's turn to recall 10 or 11 million toys for defects that have already harmed very small children.  American workmanship, once touted as the best in the world, has clearly gone down the drain.  Whether it's automobiles, drugs, food or toys, Made in USA is  a seal of disapproval for shoddy manufacturing.  The assembly-line mentality of producing countless items cheaply and rapidly, without too much regard for quality, has finally failed all over the place.

It's not cheap labor elsewhere or less regulations that have allowed other countries to out-produce the U.S.  It's the better technology and care put into the products, which even Americans recognize and prefer over their own products.  Whole industries or product lines have virtually disappeared from the American manufacturing landscape because their products were simply not good enough to compete with those produced elsewhere.

That's capitalism, for you.

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