Originally Posted by wheelan

years ago we had a thing called tariffs, idea was that if an imported product competed with local manufacturing and jobs you paid more for it, as i remember we all seemed better off and you were able to live well with the husband working and the wife staying home to look after the kids, then some einstein (muppet) came up with a thing called free trade, things dont seem so good now, if any country can make their own stuff imports must be more expensive, tough,, by the way the reason hobbyking sells their stuff cheaper is because they only deal direct with manufactures and will not deal with middle men or distributors,