I remember in history class learning about the boom that WW2 brought around for the US economy. Suddenly there were factories popping up to make airplanes and employee positions to be filled. It's sad to see that we have failed to do the same now. A recent television broadcasts exposed our Tacoma port operations of importing crates of goods from China. I am not saying it's their fault, I am questioning the authoritie's over our traded goods and asking why we import so much junk! It'd benefit our economy so incredibly if we went back fifty sixty years and starting making our own junk! lol I mean American Goods.
My dad is always thrilled when I find something that is made in the USA. Partially because it's so rare and unusual. We can supply our own food, I think it'd be in the country's best interest to make our own goods as well.
China is cashing in on the cheap labor of the their country and consumerisism of this country. What's wrong with this picture here? Doesn't money equal power? Here I will state that we ought to pour money into making facotries and generating jobs for our citizens than we do into military.
The reason why American industry thrived during WWII is because the US was just beginning to come into it's industrial power. Before that point England had reigned supreme. Now the American economy is moving away from an industrial economy, it is developing and growing. There are other jobs in other industries that are more important, and more profitable for the US than manufacturing.
Invest in high-tech, invest in education, invest in retraining factory workers who have lost their jobs overseas. Pouring money into the manufacturing industry is only taking the economy backwards, and that won't help anyone.
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Unfortunately, it's so much cheaper for things to be produced in other countries. Business owners care more about their profits than improving the American economy. It really sucks since we desperately need more jobs for our citizens.