Comments on: America Needs to Rebuild Industrial Base to Survive http://www.djproducts.com/blog/2008/12/08/america-needs-to-rebuild-industrial-base-to-survive/ Changing the way you move materials and equipment Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:03:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: David Handel http://www.djproducts.com/blog/2008/12/08/america-needs-to-rebuild-industrial-base-to-survive/#comment-442 David Handel Tue, 09 Dec 2008 04:41:33 +0000 http://www.djproducts.com/blog/2008/12/08/america-needs-to-rebuild-industrial-base-to-survive/#comment-442 I am convinced that American consumers can stop this recession dead in its tracks. While there are many great products made abroad. We also import a lot of crap for lack of a better description. In the process we have closed our factories for many consumer products categories and moved very close to becoming a purely serviced based economy. A country that manufactures nothing is doomed to permanent decline. Do you want to be left with a country where are kids are doomed to careers flipping burgers in fast food restaurants? While we don't have choices to buy American products in certain categories such as televisions, where choices are available, we must as consumer patriots think hard and fast about purchasing a foreign alternative. Sure, as individuals, we have the "right" to buy the very best for our selves, but we owe it to our selves, our fellow citizens and our children to make the sacrifice and buy the best possible American made alternative in available. When we buy American but we are helping support American jobs, American companies and our tax base. The more often that we do this, the closer we get to the resurrection of the American manufacturing sector. Paying more for American goods is a great long-term investment. With more Americans back at work, all of our businesses will have more paying customers. By purchasing the BEST AVAILABLE "made in the USA" product in a category, we will support the free market forces Darwinian forces that will bring about innovation and great new American products. We stupidly ran off to Walmart the last 30 years and destroyed our manufacturing sector. We can fairly quickly undo the error of our ways by making a concerted effort to buy American. Pretty soon it won't be a sacrifice to make that choice. Sure, we never will be the low cost supplier. We pay our factory workers an order of magnitude more than does China (and we certainly don’t want to fall to their standard of living). But, we can become the supplier of the highest quality and “best value for the quality” products in the world. Who knows, maybe we can even reverse the trade deficit and turn it into a surplus. As a small shameless plug, my blog, http://www.AmericanBoom.com/blog is devoted to the rebuilding of our manufacturing sector by developing a grassroots effort to get everyone on board to "buy American." We welcome contributing authors to tell the story of great innovative all-American companies that need our support. I am convinced that American consumers can stop this recession dead in its tracks. While there are many great products made abroad. We also import a lot of crap for lack of a better description. In the process we have closed our factories for many consumer products categories and moved very close to becoming a purely serviced based economy. A country that manufactures nothing is doomed to permanent decline. Do you want to be left with a country where are kids are doomed to careers flipping burgers in fast food restaurants?

While we don’t have choices to buy American products in certain categories such as televisions, where choices are available, we must as consumer patriots think hard and fast about purchasing a foreign alternative. Sure, as individuals, we have the “right” to buy the very best for our selves, but we owe it to our selves, our fellow citizens and our children to make the sacrifice and buy the best possible American made alternative in available. When we buy American but we are helping support American jobs, American companies and our tax base. The more often that we do this, the closer we get to the resurrection of the American manufacturing sector. Paying more for American goods is a great long-term investment. With more Americans back at work, all of our businesses will have more paying customers. By purchasing the BEST AVAILABLE “made in the USA” product in a category, we will support the free market forces Darwinian forces that will bring about innovation and great new American products.

We stupidly ran off to Walmart the last 30 years and destroyed our manufacturing sector. We can fairly quickly undo the error of our ways by making a concerted effort to buy American. Pretty soon it won’t be a sacrifice to make that choice. Sure, we never will be the low cost supplier. We pay our factory workers an order of magnitude more than does China (and we certainly don’t want to fall to their standard of living). But, we can become the supplier of the highest quality and “best value for the quality” products in the world. Who knows, maybe we can even reverse the trade deficit and turn it into a surplus.

As a small shameless plug, my blog, http://www.AmericanBoom.com/blog is devoted to the rebuilding of our manufacturing sector by developing a grassroots effort to get everyone on board to “buy American.” We welcome contributing authors to tell the story of great innovative all-American companies that need our support.

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