Manufacturing made the United States one of the strongest, richest countries in the world
but we dropped the ball. We have been outsourcing our products and services for several
decades, and we wonder why we are having problems.
Our middle class is disappearing, we are having employment problems, and we have
lost industry after industry. We have become an outsource nation, we consume but do not produce; our trade agreements with foreign nations have had a dire effect on our economy.
It is time that we strengthen our production of goods/services for the global market
and the American consumer. We have the greatest colleges and universities, the best
marketing, production, designing, manufacturing, and foundry and machine shop in this country. We
must find ways to utilize these talents for ‘Made in America’ products. If you need rubber materials for your machinery or equipment, you may order them from a custom rubber parts manufacturing company.
Our government and private industry have to invest in various manufacturing industries
so that we can be a competitive force at home and in the global marketplace. Our
legislators must be on notice that industry/manufacturing needs support. They gave Wall
St. and the banks relief to keep them afloat. Why ignore the manufacturing resources that
made this country great? Labor officials and the
politicians must change their ways, bite the bullet to start production once again.
Labor unions have to re-evaluate their wage demands and adjust their perks in order
for us to be competitive. We need special loans and tax deductions for companies
manufacturing in the USA and a way to penalize those manufacturers who outsource.
Our global competitors have received tax relief from their respective governments to
build factories, and received other financial benefits for their exports. We must meet
competition by financing our manufacturers who provide Manufacturing Careers to Americans and do
everything we can to help them compete in the global market. We should also provide our employees a safe space to work in. We can do this by seeking Heavy-Duty Factory Floor Solutions and putting up safety and warning signs all around the facility.
The stimulus money has been used for things, such as weatherizing your home, extended
unemployment benefits, rebates on appliances, health insurance to some, rebates on
buying a home, getting a small business loan, money for college, training for green jobs
and nothing allocated to encourage manufacturing and the jobs that follow.
According to http://www.recovery.gov, (11/05/2010, Source for Distributing and
Reporting: US Treasury, Federal Agency Financial and Activity Reports), we have paid
out $568 billion of $787 billion in stimulus money and about $219 billion dollars is still
not paid out. We can use this money to help solve our unemployment situation and be
competitive in the global market place by investing it into our manufacturing industry.
Another way is to try to balance the trade deficit…why not make it mandatory for foreign
manufacturers who sell their goods to us to outsource a percentage of their production
to the USA? Some overseas automobile manufacturers are assembling and sourcing
materials for their automobiles in our country, thus helping the employment situation.
If the auto industry can do it, so can other foreign industries outsource some of their
production to the United States.
Every problem becomes an opportunity if you find the solution. Let’s get the great
brainpower in our country to start thinking out of the box and solve this unemployment
puzzle. How would we feel when we start seeing the, ‘Made in America Label’ again?
How about encouraging our consumers to buy American, and have American makers
become more proactive in advertising, public relations and marketing, “Made in
America” products.