None needed, invisiblehand. I was simply trying to make sense of the cheap junk that is being shipped over here. It is mostly lots of little things, like the dress's cheap fabric that tore when my mother wore it-the first time. And not at the seams-but in the center of the fabric! Or the sorry lot of bikes being pushed at the local big box store. And the gizmo (adjusting nut) that won't stay tight in my newly replaced handlebars. It is not Chinese or Asian bashing. Just irritating little things done by some of the makers over there, over here-in the end it really does not matter. Yes, we are getting what we pay for no matter where the item in question is made. We seem to be declining in areas where it really counts.