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Published: 2012-02-16 02:55:00 +0000 UTC; Views: 410; Favourites: 6; Downloads: 0
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I recently read a brief article concerning Obama's plans to bring manufacturing jobs back to the U.S., AKA insourcing. Let's face it: the U.S. is a falling country--out of work and out of luck. Bringing fields like manufacturing, engineering, IT, etc. back to the U.S. can only do worlds of good.So I got inspired to create this. The letters aren't very professional-looking (I outlined them with a mouse >.<) But I feel like it gets the point across.
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Say, do you think Americans who support local production should check these websites?
www.madeinusa.org/
www.madeintheusa.com/
madeinusaforever.com/
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Budweiser was bought out by a Belgian company not too long ago. Why that sale didn't stay in country is beyond me! Smithfield Foods was recently sold to a Chinese company.
Why are we doing this?
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I'm glad to hear it! Thank you for looking at my work.
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I feel that the traditional American manufacturing jobs are lost. People frequently talk about lowering the corporate tax rate and losing the regulations, but there is little talk about corporate patriotism. Corporate patriotism does not seem to exist. We will never have a lower cost of doing business or fewer regulations than a third world country or predatory developed nations. We are one of the most developed countries in the world and our citizens have a higher standard of living. The only way we can save our manufacturing jobs is to create new areas of manufacturing and increase education. We need areas that canβt be outsourced because we are the main source. Obama is trying to do this with green jobs just as previous presidents built the highway system and our electrical grid. It is clear that it is not financially beneficial to corporations to mix patriotism with business sensibility. So yes it is up to the government (perhaps with corporate partnership) to pull us out of this hole.
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Honestly, I think the best way to promote corporate patriotism is tax breaks for insourcing. >.< That might be the only way to entice the big shots whose bonuses ride on their corporation's revenues.
It saddens me that skill and craftsmanship are all but dead. It seems like no major companies are concerned with creating quality goods anymore, and fewer and fewer consumers would be willing to buy. There is just no pride in America anymore. We are being killed by convenience. People stopped caring about health when it became cheap to eat out. People stopped caring bout politics when lobbyists started kicking up mud and it became hard to make an educated decision. People stopped caring about quality when Walmart made everything cheap. There is no pride. There is no motivation. We're dying of apathy.
Thank you for taking the time to leave an intelligent comment on my work. I hope you don't mind my rambling. 
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Providing more manufacturing and engineering jobs in the US would also help improve the education, since these jobs need workers who are smart enough to know what they're doing. Plus, it also makes the more corporate jobs run efficiently, since they don't have to deal with all the barriers created by outsourcing such as employees needing to learn several different languages, cultural barriers, and diplomatic issues.
And this means you can actually export with the global economy with a sense of pride.... Which everyone values in the end.
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I agree entirely. There are also countless logistic benefits to insourcing. Namely, significantly reduced transportation costs.
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Good idea.
Fact is, money goes where it is treated best. (By money I mean all capital (cash, wealth, human resources, hard assets, intellectual property etc...)
How do you treat money the best? Its a mix of:
(a) Make the USA net tax rates the most competitive on the globe, and
(b) Make the cost of complying with all USA regulations the most globally competitive.
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your point B is something that the US government doesn't seem to realize. If they provide no incentive for corporations to keep their jobs in the US, corporations are going to look out for their own profits and outsource!
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Thank you.
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Thank you for looking at my work.
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I think "insourcing" is important for all nations. If your country can produce what you need, then use that capability.
It at first seems like a good idea to outsource to China for cheap labour, but by doing that you kill jobs and those people now have to turn to the service industry, making $8 an hour. It makes the corporations wealthier, but the populace poorer. Who cares about cheaper goods at Walmart if you make $20,000 less than before?
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Not to mention the fact that some foreign countries often have lower quality and safety standards than the US... (lead paint, anyone?)
Then there is the issue of transportation. It's almost funny how the entire world seems to think that just because something CAN be transported that it SHOULD. Getting merchandise from China to the US has become so easy that people seem to forget that it's wasteful and unecessary.
It comes down to short sighted-ness, which seems to be the root of many of today's societal problems.
Anywho, thank you for the comment.
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A plant I worked for went out of business because of outsourcing. This is good for our country, thank you.
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Thank you.
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wow, a decent submission on the DAPFC group. A great one, even.
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*applause*
You ought to put this on a shirt, yaknow.
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