Mr. Lloyde, as far as telling me to "buck up and buy a Leupold," sir, I have several on my firearms that I have had for years. Let me enlighten you. I am retired from the construction building business and I built custom homes for my living. I would never cut corners in order to gain just a tad bit more of pocket change. I saw other home builder's who would put what I would view as inferior material into a building, yet charge the new homeowner what I would. (We build a home based on several factors: What is put into the home=what the price per square foot will be charged for the finished home). Mr. Lloyde, I call this integrity. It molds a person's character and that is what our U.S. based corporations have lost. Yes, we live in a free market economy, so that no one can dictate what we buy. I get that. If it takes a company to go overseas in order to use that "cheap labor" money to drive their other U.S. products and please the stockholders with higher earnings and profit sharing and bonuses at the top tiers of companies....then that kind of business practice will eventually be their downfall. And in regard to Union Labor, folks who belonged to various unions could easily afford higher priced products. When wages go backwards, like they have for the last ten years or so, your calling out of "buying products on the cheap" is not the problem of the consumer. It's the problem of corporatations being allowed to revert their products overseas for their own financial gain. I will not be a party to such nonsense that I will buy a product on the cheap and expect it to be or perform as a higher priced product. I'm not naive to the business practices the U.S. corporations do. If we continue to ignore this problem and hope that it goes away.....dream on, that's exactly what they want us to do.
