Thom Hartmann: It's Time For a Manufacturing Revolution

[thomhartmann]

While lawmakers in Washington bicker over the so-called budget deficit crisis - America is facing a much larger kind of deficit - one that has real and lasting consequences for our economy and society. We need a new manufacturing revolution - 100 percent made in America \\ Bring back tariffs and get us out of these so-called Trade Agreements.

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[Plucketeer]

1. Pride of nation

yields to the "Blue Light Special" EVERY TIME. I'm old enough to remember when we chuckled at "Jap Junk". I'm sure that stuffs from China were to be had then - if one looked hard enough. But you'd have asked yourself: WHY? Why would you pointedly choose cheap and inferior stuff when we made the very best right here.

I remember when cheap chinese tools started to flood our markets in the late 70s. They were SUCH miserable junk. BUT...... a young fella hoping to break into a field that required tools could buy a 500-piece "set" of Chinese tools for the cost of one set of Snap-On wrenches. Didn't really seem to matter if the cheap shit broke - replacemnet pieces were practically nothing.

I used to use Milwaukee electrical tools exclusively. I considered them the best one could buy. I was dismayed recently, to realize that I could NOT buy a Milwaukee brand tool that was made in the USA. I decided to do without.
The real irony now is that having squashed the competition, the stuff made in China is now escalating to prices that American stuff would've been competitive with. This country screwed itself. We totally made love to the "Walmarts" of all marketing realms, and there's NO F'ing way that habit is gonna be triumphed over.