This is an open post for our President-elect and members of Congress. Please start getting legislation in place to make it business friendly for companies to start manufacturing in this country again. We cannot afford to outsource anymore. We are a service economy that doesn’t have enough money to employ people to service the economy.
With the initiatives coming on the table to promote “green” businesses and to get cash into the infrastructure, how about doing something that will benefit states for years to come after the roads, dams and buildings have been retrofitted or rebuilt?
Put some incentives in place to get green manufacturing going so people can make a decent wage, hire people, and make something that isn’t dependent on other nations to provide us for. Yes, people will pay for something going the cheapest they can.
But that is usually once if the product they are buying turns out to be crappy. They realize the old adage of “You get what you paid for” and they generally “buy up” the second time around or return the original product and rebuy a higher end product even if it costs more.
U.S. manufacturing use to mean something and yes, a lot of manufacturing can be done by robots now but there has to be something that still requires the personal touch. Manufacturing requires some skill sets other than basic high school English and Math and hopefully that will keep people’s brains going as well. Manufacturing can bring a lot of people into the workplace and those people will spend their paychecks right back into the workplace keeping the circle of money-life going and the economy buzzing.
People, once employed, will be available for qualifying for home loans because they will have steady jobs. The housing market can regain some of the ground that it lost. We realize this won’t happen overnight but please, let us get started with something to help out local state and city economies now! Our schools need to hire teachers that will help parents bring home the fact that they need to work to make a living. We’ve had overall a good quality of life on the whole. We need to do what we can to raise the quality of life of those who are suffering and sustain the level that we’ve worked hard to get.
Manufacturing helped bring that quality of life to America.
Local manufacturing bring moneys to local economies. Make the tax breaks decent but not completely free and companies will stick around. Other companies are investing in America – land is cheap right now in a lot of places and the government should do what it can to help us get more people investing and working here. I still think this is one of the best places in the world to live in, Mr. President, don’t you?
Don’t let our nation become a follower instead of a leader as we move forward in the century, Mr. President.
Thanks for your time and good luck with your new job!
Kim Isaac Greenblatt
Mr. President, don’t forget manufacturing.
Tags: Business, manufacturing, robots