Once our industries were allowed to go off shore, once foreign competition was permitted to glut the market with goods made by people receiving sub-standard wages, once "American" corporations found they could circumvent safety rules and get away with exploiting third-world people desperate for any kind of job under any kind of miserable conditions and "American Made" and "Union Made" labels are as rare as hens' teeth, this was bound to happen. Taxes, red tape and sometimes ridiculous rules deter American entrepreneurs. And I'll spare you a rant about gov't subsidies to the big guys which makes it even smaller for the little guy--farmer, manufacturer, whatever. Monopolies and cartels charge whatever they can squeeze out of people.