Obama's Call For Manufacturing Revival A Tough Goal

It is hard to compete with other nations that subsidize their industries. Conservatives scream that is Socialism, but aren't tax breaks to Corporations a subsidy and therefore Socialism?
A Corporate tax rate of 35% has morphed into an average paid rate of only 12.1%. I see only a fundamental move toward alternate energy to revive us.

NAFTA and negitive social change will be OUR undoing .......Plus the unregistered foreign agents in congress and manufactoring who helped pave the road that our jobs left on.......George Washington,wore to his first swearing in,((he wanted to make a point about the US making and buying our own stuff !)),so it is reported ,...clothes made HERE,when his actual love in attire was clothing made elsewhere ! ........So much for these people screaming that Free Trade is inherent in our history,when the REAL truth is something else then again.....

I'd love to see "Made in American" stuff but there aren't any, but if there is there not much made here.
I'd buy things made here in the States. Most stuff made in China, Japan and so on just don't last.

This would be great, but how can a small business survive with all tthe taxes, regulation, litigation and most of all unions. We would see a 500% inflation very soon. On top of that not many people could qualify to do manufactuing jobs, since all the younger people went to college for something like psychology, there is a big lack of skills.

the ceos of this country sold us down the river they didnt give a dam about my grand kids their greed distroyed this country we cant even punish them most are dead they didnt care for anybody but themselve it would take 50 years and alot of going back to the old usa get rid of hope and change and think about country god and honor thanks america

the ceos of this country sold us down the river they didnt give a dam about my grand kids their greed distroyed this country we cant even punish them most are dead they didnt care for anybody but themselve it would take 50 years and alot of going back to the old usa get rid of hope and change and think about country god and honor thanks america

You go Mr. President. Hooray. I have been saying that we need to get our manufacturers back to this country and the way to do that is to give them tax breaks and stop importing all the junk from China. We can do this. The line out of the movie "Pretty Woman" had me feeling the same way. We make nothing and we just take companies and break them up into little pieces. Let's put our people to work and tell China to stay out of our way. Look at the things they have done. Trying to poison us and our babies with lead paint. Trying to poison our animals. Now they want to come build a huge building. We don't want the few jobs they will offer to the United States workers. We want it all.

The best thing this president, or any president, could do is get government out of the way. Government "help" has skewed the economy enough already. The four horsemen of the economic apocalypse, taxes, unions, regulation and litigation, have driven manufacturing overseas. Now, business that remains here is dependent on government favors to get by.

What is missing in articles like this is that in 2011, the US was the largest producer of manufactured goods on the planet. Almost $1.8 trillion of manufactured goods were produced in this country. China was second with $1.2 trillion and Germany a distant third with $650 billion. From an employment perspective, it is important to recognize that most of the $1.8 trillion in US manufactured goods were produced in highly automated manufacturing facilities that have eliminated the need for large numbers of workers. Many large manufacturers in the US, such as Caterpillar, have jobs they can't fill for lack of skilled workers. I recenlty heard a Caterpillar spokesperson bemoaning that they have over 600 jobs unfilled at their Peoria facility for lack of skilled applicants. The old manufacturing that required large numbers of unskilled or semi-skilled workers is a thing of the past and won't be returning to the US. Apple currentlly employs 900 engineers and over 200,000 line workers at their Chinese iPod/Ipad/iPhone assembly plant. Apple's stated goal is to replace all these workers with a fully automated assembly line. That's the future.

There is so much pro-Obama and anti-manufacturing bilge in this so-called "article," that it's a monumental task just to take on a few...

First, America has "bargain shopped" itself into shipping its manufacturing jobs overseas. Since Americans want luxury on the cheap, they refuse to pay their blue-collar neighbor that "living wage" they demand for themselves. From TV to the education monopoly, everyone disparages "blue-collar" careers, and promotes a "college education" so your little student will have a "white-collar" one, thereby making them "superior" to those "less educated blue-collar" workers.

The result is our "more chiefs than indians" unbalanced economy, and now we have more lawyers and buraeucrats than folks that actually produce goods. Those not college educated, and even a lot who are, are now relegated to "service businesses" such as what we once called "janitorial" in nature.

All too many American manufacturers are now having to go off-shore simply to locate workers having the technical skills it takes to create modern finished goods, and that means a large number of less-educated Americans have fewer job opportunities, unless it's in the sales, or cleaning and servicing of our sophisticated appliances and machinery. That includes your computers and cars.

Second, only the application of labor to natural resources actually produces "wealth." Wealth is the excess of production that those who produce haven't consumed for their own needs. This surplus can be bartered for other goods and services the productive require for their own lives, and the remainder "services" labor is merely "consumptive" re-distribution of the excess wealth that the "productive" create through their own enterprise and labor. This Productivity ranges from agricultural and mining to sophisticated manufactured goods.

That "hamburger flipper" everyone disparages, produces more actual wealth in the creation of only one hamburger than all the lawyers in history have throughout their entire legal careers. The only thing a lawyer produces is impediments to progress, and the combative redistribution of other people's money into their own pockets.

Corporations, especially manufacturing corporations don't actually "pay" taxes, but are instead "tax collectors" who have to tack that taxation onto the price the consumer pays for finished goods. If our "highest on the planet" corporate taxation were eliminated, then American-made products would enjoy an instant 27-45% decrease in price, making them more competitive than even Chinese-made equals. Doing that alone would naturally INCREASE American manufacturing jobs by some four to seven million postions, and create a renaissance in the American economy.

As President Obama hasn't involved himself in the manufacture of anything, but has unionized manufacturers' enterprises, thereby increasing their costs of production, he'll never comprehend this. He hates capitalistic enterprise.