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Sign My Petition – Bring Manufacturing Back To America – More Jobs, Less Lead Paint!
- 2009, March 7, Saturday – 10:30 PM
- Posted in bailout, budget, change, choice, ecology, economy, employment, energy, environment, future, global, industry, lifestyle, lobbying, manufacturing, patriotism, politics, pollution, proletariat, protest, reform, stimulus, taxes, trade, union
- Tagged american, China, employment, fair trade, jobs, lead paint, Made in the USA, manufacturers, manufacturing, trade, unemployment, USA
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I found this and liked it – But until the Gov’t stops incentivizing outsourceing it will not be an option to keep jobs here – in the company I work for $85,000 a head from the Gov’t to outsorce to Puerto Rico………
It is time for the U.S. to rebuild its manufacturing excellence and competitive advantages. Middle class consumers around the world are happy to pay for good quality products like Swiss watches, English teapots, Belgium chocolates, German cars, French perfume, and Japanese robots. Neither China nor India is able to replicate these products to a comparable level. What are America’s best manufactured products that are globally recognized and nontransferable? Perhaps this is where we should start to bring work back, and make it stay.
I think that companies wishing to outsource labor to other countries should be taxed or fined for doing so to the point where it is cheaper to keep the labor here. The reason that this isn’t happening, I assume, is that the companies that export labor pay government officials a lot more in lobbies and secret bribes than I can afford to.