Re: PR Heritage Scopes
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Rnd1</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
Go ahead and ask COKE what is in their product, or even KFC and what spices they use. Microsoft will sue you into the Stone Age if you are caught snooping into their software construction to see how it works (or doesn’t). This list could go on for a long time. The bottom line is, it really is NUN-YA!
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There's a huge difference between ingredients in a recipe for food, or program code than wanting to know WHERE things are manufactured they aren't even in the same ballpark, it's not even the same topic. You are talking about trying to backwards engineer a product by gaining knowledge into it's proprietary ingredients or specifications. That has as much to do with WHERE it's made as a Slurpee at 7-11 does.
Personally I think the whole ex-employee thing is none of our business. However, I do think customers have a right to know WHERE things are made. I completely agree they don't have a right to know how they are made or the specifications to proprietary parts, no one has even hinted at that. If a company won't tell you where it's made or what % is USA made -vs- outsourced, you can bet you wouldn't like it if you knew. Otherwise they'd just tell you, period, it's that simple.
You can say supporting companies in the US that outsource manufacturing is supporting USA jobs and it is, but on a small scale. How many more USA jobs would that $ support if the entire product was USA made, not just assembled by a very few US employees from a bunch of parts built by many many more employees from other countries.
The Stay Away Day idea won't work, it's been tried before, there has to be at least 10 "national....day/week" things that has to do with not buying or saving gas. National bike to work week, National ride share week, National no-gas day, etc. It won't even make them blink. All those things do is make people feel good as if they are making a difference for one day a year. It has to be on a large scale and consistent to make any impact.
To me it has NOTHING to do with product quality. Lots of great products are not made in the USA. The best cameras, lenses, skis, hiking boots, climbing gear, TVs, cars, etc. etc are not made in the USA. It has to do with wanting to support USA jobs, because at the end of the day sending our money overseas for goods, even if it's a percentage of the total of it due to outsourced manufacturing, comes out of Americans pockets one way or another. Because people can't see the instant impact of it on their paycheck, they don't give a shit about it, it's pathetic.
