"After all at the end of the day these companies are out to make money and keep shareholders happy."
True, but in the end these companies are hurting themselves. They are more interested in short term profits than anything long term. As this companies contually move their production to China they put more Americans out of work, thus they will less and les people able to buy their saws. Certainly your average Chinese worker in not going to buy a saw. So by moving production to the U.S., or keeping it here in the first place, they help the very economy in which they expect to sell their saws. Certainly items can be made here just as cheaply, but this requires modernation and automation as opposed to just surrendering to short term profits. I guess U.S. manufacturers should take at look at Ford in the early 1900s when they raised wages to an unheard of price of $5.00 per day for unskilled labor under the reasoning that they could sell more cars if an average worker could afford to buy one; of course the wage increase was really only possible because Ford modernized plants so that the cost per unit could be reduced.
