http://fivebeforechaos.com/2007/10/05/wow-fred-thompson-really-is-like-reagan/ ...it's like removing splinters with a chainsaw Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:21:39 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://fivebeforechaos.com/2007/10/05/wow-fred-thompson-really-is-like-reagan/comment-page-1/#comment-707 J.D. Ryan Fri, 05 Oct 2007 15:27:27 +0000 http://fivebeforechaos.com/2007/10/05/wow-fred-thompson-really-is-like-reagan/#comment-707 Readers, have a look at the above commenter's blog, <a href="http://www.manufacturethis.org/" rel="nofollow">ManufactureThis</a>, for accounts of the effects of outsourcing in the race to the bottom. Readers, have a look at the above commenter’s blog, ManufactureThis, for accounts of the effects of outsourcing in the race to the bottom.

]]> http://fivebeforechaos.com/2007/10/05/wow-fred-thompson-really-is-like-reagan/comment-page-1/#comment-706 J.D. Ryan Fri, 05 Oct 2007 15:16:59 +0000 http://fivebeforechaos.com/2007/10/05/wow-fred-thompson-really-is-like-reagan/#comment-706 Well, I currently don't have a candidate, but I'm certainly not expecting a Republican do do anything about the shrinking manufacturing base. It's all about the bottom line and race to the bottom under the guise of free trade for those people. Those are great and important questions you ask. Well, I currently don’t have a candidate, but I’m certainly not expecting a Republican do do anything about the shrinking manufacturing base. It’s all about the bottom line and race to the bottom under the guise of free trade for those people. Those are great and important questions you ask.

]]> http://fivebeforechaos.com/2007/10/05/wow-fred-thompson-really-is-like-reagan/comment-page-1/#comment-705 Steven Capozzola Fri, 05 Oct 2007 15:10:17 +0000 http://fivebeforechaos.com/2007/10/05/wow-fred-thompson-really-is-like-reagan/#comment-705 Does Your Candidate Have Plan to Save U.S. Manufacturing?  For the October 9 Republican debate in Dearborn, the Alliance for American Manufacturing (AAM) urges Michigan voters to challenge their presidential candidates regarding America’s manufacturing crisis.    The United States racked up a $763 billion trade deficit in 2006, and more than 40,000 U.S. factories have closed since 2000.  Michigan has lost more than 279,000 manufacturing employees.  These lost factories, and our enormous trade deficit, do not happen by accident.  U.S. manufacturers face ongoing, unfair competition from overseas.  For example, China employs currency manipulation—a practice deemed illegal under international law—to artificially lower the cost of their goods while raising the price of U.S. exports.  China also dumps product in the U.S. and illegally subsidizes its manufacturing.  In the past five years alone, China’s state-run economy has poured $52 billion into its steel production, a serious challenge to private American steel producers.      We believe it’s high time that our presidential candidates address this illegal competition confronting American businesses, and offer concrete solutions about how to strengthen U.S. manufacturing.  At the Dearborn debate, and elsewhere, ask your candidates to explain how they’ll stand up for American manufacturing.  Ask them directly:1. What specific policies will you support to strengthen the American manufacturing base, which is vital to our economic and national security? 2. What steps will you take to enforce our trade laws and hold cheating countries like China accountable?  These are serious questions—ones that deserve forthright answers.  ## Does Your Candidate Have Plan to Save U.S. Manufacturing?  For the October 9 Republican debate in Dearborn, the Alliance for American Manufacturing (AAM) urges Michigan voters to challenge their presidential candidates regarding America’s manufacturing crisis.    The United States racked up a $763 billion trade deficit in 2006, and more than 40,000 U.S. factories have closed since 2000.  Michigan has lost more than 279,000 manufacturing employees.  These lost factories, and our enormous trade deficit, do not happen by accident.  U.S. manufacturers face ongoing, unfair competition from overseas.  For example, China employs currency manipulation—a practice deemed illegal under international law—to artificially lower the cost of their goods while raising the price of U.S. exports.  China also dumps product in the U.S. and illegally subsidizes its manufacturing.  In the past five years alone, China’s state-run economy has poured $52 billion into its steel production, a serious challenge to private American steel producers.      We believe it’s high time that our presidential candidates address this illegal competition confronting American businesses, and offer concrete solutions about how to strengthen U.S. manufacturing.  At the Dearborn debate, and elsewhere, ask your candidates to explain how they’ll stand up for American manufacturing.  Ask them directly:1. What specific policies will you support to strengthen the American manufacturing base, which is vital to our economic and national security?
2. What steps will you take to enforce our trade laws and hold cheating countries like China accountable?  These are serious questions—ones that deserve forthright answers.  ##

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