There are 'puppets' everywhere, and real credibility is a rare cumodity these days. It's all about marketing and money. You can thank corporate greed and out-sourcing to the decline in quality control AND consumer confidence in products imported to the US that were made in the US 10 or 20 years ago?!??!? Luckily "we", the consumer, have the internet to help us make the best comparisons of the 2nd rate crap we're forced to purchase these days!!! An added plus is that major manufacturers (importers now), can't hide behind the vieil of "oh I guess we're out of touch" with the American consumer.The computer age is too fast for such BS. The American public is getting wiser every day, and that scares big corporations, because they'll one day realize that people will smarten up and quit believing the garbage that main-steam media dishes out, their profits will decline, and that they will one day be out-sourced by companies that "listen and provide" to what the purchaser wants,....QUALITY!!!! Might cost more, but quality comes at a premium too. Here's a scary factoid,.....China is starting to out-source it's low tech industries now (textiles, housewares, etc.). One more thing to add to the "doom and gloom" scenario of this thread,....Honey bee's are vanishing!,...thus no pollenation,...no food supplies to feed the masses. We'll all starve to death before ?quality" comes back into vogue. That's just the tip of the iceberg. In the mean time everyone, Happy Shooting!! LOL's!, tjk
PS Sorry, just letting out a little steam
