K&N oil filter made in Korea
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From: California
Uncle Paul;11437713]K&N used to be a family run company, designing and making their filters at their Riverside California facility.
Agreed Uncle Paul. Doing business in this state is difficult at best. This whole thing about overseas products is just a sign of the times. It is difficult to find a product that is built here at home simply because the cost is so prohibitive. Harley Davidson is a good example; while beating their chest about American made motorcycle all the while buying parts off shore and pawning their product off as American. It is what it is.
Agreed Uncle Paul. Doing business in this state is difficult at best. This whole thing about overseas products is just a sign of the times. It is difficult to find a product that is built here at home simply because the cost is so prohibitive. Harley Davidson is a good example; while beating their chest about American made motorcycle all the while buying parts off shore and pawning their product off as American. It is what it is.
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From: Oroville,Washington.
Caliphony has run most manufacturing out of the state with the bullshit regs,and the cost per square foot of manufacturing space. As to the "concerned patriot" OP,I'd scream like hell that I didn't get a bucket of Kim Chi with that. Get over it.
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From: Near Myrtle Beach, SC
You wouldn't believe the quantity of semiconductors that are manufactured outside of the United States that are used in guidance systems of everything from missiles to passenger jets....not to mention the Space Shuttle. It's a global economy now, connected in cyber space.
We all hate it, but for the US worker to maintain his/our standard of living, we cannot afford to build most of our own products. Government and state regulations, tax burdens on corporations, political cowards, and the large percentage of the American society that would rather suck the nanny state's tit than work, have all contributed to our predicament.
No, it will never be like it once was. But most of us old guys were there. We know how it was and we know how it should be. I guess that's what pisses all of us off when we see it going to hell, or in the case of K&N, to Korea in a hand basket.
And the really sad part is that our kids, grand kids, and great grand kids will be mostly clueless as to what it took to build what may soon be crumbling at it's foundations. Our country was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots. Pick your party, they are generally all cut from the same piece of cow dung.
We all hate it, but for the US worker to maintain his/our standard of living, we cannot afford to build most of our own products. Government and state regulations, tax burdens on corporations, political cowards, and the large percentage of the American society that would rather suck the nanny state's tit than work, have all contributed to our predicament.
No, it will never be like it once was. But most of us old guys were there. We know how it was and we know how it should be. I guess that's what pisses all of us off when we see it going to hell, or in the case of K&N, to Korea in a hand basket.
And the really sad part is that our kids, grand kids, and great grand kids will be mostly clueless as to what it took to build what may soon be crumbling at it's foundations. Our country was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots. Pick your party, they are generally all cut from the same piece of cow dung.
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