Agreed. You are doing your client a huge disservice by limiting his choices (or going along with his plan) to Vizio and Nexus. Neither is 100% USA anyway (just like the automobiles his company manufacturers and he/she likely drives). And both Vizio and Nexus have manufacturing facilities in the East. Sell and install what works and performs well for the job; whether it be Samsung, Panasonic, Mitsubishi, LG, Runco, etc.

The dipshit American consumer is as much to blame as anyone. I don't have a job but I saved $5.00 on my "I'm with stupid" tshirt.

The best you can do is try to buy something with as much domestic content as possible.

I could go on for hours about Chrysler when Daimler took over and they sent tons of contracts for parts overseas. Daimler turned Chryslers products and ultimately the company into a steaming pile of crap.

Amen. We try our best to buy local, American made, etc. It's not possible to go 100% but, I do have my three kids trained to rat out their mom and grandma when the ladies try to shop at Walmart.

Do like others suggested and sell him a good TV (not these brands) and then upgrade the amps and speakers to American. You will screw yourself with no discrete codes on these cheap brands

...How about NONE? Sorry man.

It's not a Home Theater.  Just a TV and cable box.  But I understand what you're saying.    Like I said, customer is doing his best to Buy American.  If he's going to try to spend his money with an American company, I'm going to do everything I can to facilitate it.  But I'm not ever going to recommend a Vizio.

I figured it was a  long shot, but I figured I'd give it a try, just in case there was something out there.

Maybe the best we can do is elect politicians who won't give gazillions in tax breaks for corporations to move overseas. I'm getting really angry at the Republicans right now with their "We won't raise taxes on the rich but instead we'll cut granny's Social Security and Medicare all while playing Russian Roulette with the debt ceiling". Apparently Warren Buffet feels the same way I do about all of this.

Did anybody read the interview with the ex-Tyco CEO/current inmate? Check out the part where he says Tyco wanted to buy ADT but when they found out ADT was incorporated in a foreign country they realized that they'd have to pay over $7 BILLION in taxes for the purchase so they did some fancy legalize and had ADT "buy" Tyco instead and in the process avoided paying any tax. I think he said that Tyco is now incorporated in Switzerland or something.

Buy American? How can you even know anymore? I think I'm just going to buy what I want so I can get the best value for my money. At the end of the day it will raise somebody's boat somewhere on the planet.

 I was merely correcting who made Vizio TVs.  Its not LG who makes them, its Amtran in Taiwan.  
I agree with the second part stating that its not american just because Vizio is based in California.  That is what I stated but I guess I didn't word it properly.

The American consumer can want prices to be low but they have no control over that. Go try and find an iMac at a few points over cost or a mac book pro for $400. It ain't gonna happen. Is it because consumers want to pay a lot or full retail? No. It is because Apple forces them to.

Consumers didn't create the walmart mentality. Walmart did. Walmart did their best to destroy competition by telling everyone that they should only pay $5 for jeans. And guess what... Everyone thinks jeans should cost $5 now.

I put the blame solely on manufacturers. They have the ability to control pricing by forcing resellers to follow the rules. 5% here 10% there... These discounts are not created by consumers. They are created by those selling the goods.

Expecting a consumer to want to pay more for something is crazy. Expecting manufacturers not to race to the bottom is too... i guess.

That has to be one of the most assinine statements I've heard in a while.

The reason companies leave the country is to avoid the high taxes and burdensom regulations that washington imposes on them, not cause they get paid to leave.

You admitted as much in the next paragraph.

the circular logic is astounding.

 Well said Stamp

"I'm getting really angry at the Republicans right now with their "We won't raise taxes on the rich but instead we'll cut granny's Social Security and Medicare all while playing Russian Roulette with the debt ceiling".

Ah, snipets from the liberal machine all in an effort to thwart attention away from creating a socialist One World Society.

Does know one understand history anymore or even care?

I put the blame on us. It is the consumer that drives the manufactures to produce an inferior product. How many times have you have you heard, the picture is good for the price or it sounds pretty good on the $200 "surround sound bar".
I am as guilty as anybody. I have searched out the cheapest stuff even though I know what I am getting. I rarely do it because I want good products, whether it be american or foreign made.
I do believe that manufacturing will make its way back to this country because China and the other countries will demand better labor wages as we have.

Wear jeans?

Want to buy American?

Here ya go: [Link: texasjeans.com]

I doubt it. You probably hear asinine (there's only one "s" in asinine. "Ass" has two so maybe that's why you're confused) statements daily from Rush Limbaugh or whomever you get your facts from. Perhaps you wouldn't recognize an asinine statement if it bit you in the ass.