Pat,
I hope mine has a better faith than yours

I'm usually very careful operating my tools and hardly abuse them if I can help it. I had an industrial Craftsman drill/driver that was working fine only the battery died and replacement battery was more expensive than what I paid in the first place. I ended up making it corded and used it for several years parking it next to my work bench at home. Any how the switch on it died and I did a postmortem autopsy and took the gear drive mechanism out and it was Chinese made. I needed something at the farm and I was at HF and bought on of their drill/driver 1/4 of cost of craftsman battery, out of curiosity I partially opened it and wouldn't you new, under Hf facade I had exactly the same drive mechanism. On Dewalt and Milwaukee, I went to Graingers to pick up a new driver for the guys at work. I work for the feds and "buy American" is what we try to abide buy, the guy at Graingers told me the Milwaukee is Chinese made same as Dewalt and not recommended for purchase, I asked him is there anything you have in your catalog with the same spec that is American made and he promptly said no. So I bought the Milwaukee. I think the quality is still good and material has not changed much only cheap Chinese labor is used and abused. Can't blame the Chinese, I blame the greed here in U.S that for "more fist full of dollars" they ship all the jobs out.
JC,