Actually this doesn't mean a thing or matter in any significant way (Hawk is correct in so far as the labeling goes).
Here's the real deal, when you go into a store and everything (or so close as to make no diff) is made in some other country and you're all mad about that, it shows the extent to which you've already had your thinking corrupted by the system.
What you should be asking yourself is "Where can I buy this item that I want/need, that is made in the USA?" --but you don't ask that, you just are angry because the thing you are trying to buy is made someplace else.
But if you do ask that question you soon notice that there is no US manufacturer to buy from (yes there are some sparsely strewn items made here, but not a big % of what you want/need).
Now that's what they don't want you to notice --they have already misdirected you into thinking and being mad because 'it's foreign made', not why isn't this made here. So the next step is to make you feel good about it instead of bad, but still without causing you at ask the correct question. And the clear way to do this is by removing the label that's now distressing you. No label no bad thought at all, and above all no asking the real important questions.
QED.
Now why did that happen? Outsourcing, off shoring, etc.? Or could it be that large numbers of people who were/are just living normal lives (whatever passes for normal these days) have continued to show companies that they will buy cheap over quality every time, if given the choice?
Yep, that's right I'm blaming the people that just wanted the best life they could manage. But then so does a sheep.
So "What the F&*# is wrong with this country?" --> sheeple.
For whatever it's worth, I'm not excluding myself --as a matter of fact it's no doubt me and my peers that merrily followed the garden path, just trying to put beans on the table and raise the kids. But I'm older now (just turned 73) and hind sight being what it is I wish I had done better then that --you know, asked the right questions back before the jobs started going away.
But it's like the frog being slowly boiled to death by gradually rising water temps --doesn't notice it til it's too late.
So all I can do now (which I admit isn't much), is to pile up the guns and ammo, etc. --not really so much for me, my race is much closer to the end then the start of it, but for the kids --mine and yours, so they don't have to storm the Bastille with nothing more then pitchforks. And that day will come, possibly even in my remaining life span. (hopefully trying to restore the Republic, but whatever --storm it they will have to or be slaves forever)
If you are young enough you might take a little advice and start asking the right questions --but it's more then I did so that's a sort of do as I say, not as I did proposition.
And if I'm wrong and the guns/ammo/etc. are never needed, so what --they can just rust away... just like America has.
Zero.
