{"id":4042,"date":"2012-03-13T18:59:12","date_gmt":"2012-03-13T22:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=4042"},"modified":"2012-03-13T19:03:46","modified_gmt":"2012-03-13T23:03:46","slug":"how-about-made-in-the-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/how-about-made-in-the-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"How About “Made in the USA”?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Made<\/a>I’m not going to wax political — I’m not that crazy – but it seems to me if we want more jobs in this country we need to make more stuff in this country. Where has all the common sense gone? We threw billions at the Wall Street fat cats who colluded with investors to offer impossible loans to people who had no business getting them. We threw billions at the automobile industry with the Cash for Clunkers program, we’ve spent $4 trillion on wars, and we’ve thrown hundreds of billions of dollars around with various bailouts.<\/p>\n

I have an idea. Why don’t we start making things here? Why don’t we spend less on war and more on people. How about subsidizing industry instead of throwing it around? How about we pay Dell, Apple, Microsoft, and other companies who outsource their manufacturing to China, Mexico, and other countries to bring the work home to American workers.<\/p>\n

Not everyone can afford to go to college; not everyone wants to. But just because they don’t want to go college or cannot afford it shouldn’t condemn them to a life flipping burgers, should it.<\/p>\n

What if the government subsidized each computer, TV, cell phone, tablet, appliance, Blu-Ray Player, etc. — just enough to make it worthwhile to the manufacturer? Wouldn’t that be a good investment? The government would get their money back through income taxes paid by the employees – many of them people who are working minimum wage jobs right now or not working at all.<\/p>\n

Apple, Dell, Microsoft, and the rest would have to pay their workers a living wage – not minimum wage.<\/p>\n

Look around – not a single one of the billions of cell phones you see everywhere were made in the USA. Not a single computer, not a single flat panel TV, not a single computer monitor, and not a single tablet computer is made in the USA. Think how many jobs would be created if we made all those things here – millions – maybe tens of millions.<\/p>\n

And by bringing the jobs back home, we’d \u00a0no longer be subsidizing the Chinese government’s military and space programs. They’d actually have to innovate. develop and produce original products – not rip offs of other people’s ideas.<\/p>\n

If we’re going to throw money around maybe we should throw it where we a decent\u00a0chance of getting back more than we spent.<\/p>\n

If you’re saying the government needs to stay out of our lives — good luck with that – it’s not going to happen no matter what party occupies the White House. So as long as were going to throw money around — how about throwing it where it will help the average person — the average family? Good jobs that pay a living wage and don’t require college degrees are almost non-existent. Isn’t it time we brought the jobs back home?<\/p>\n

Would you pay a bit more to buy a quality product made in the USA over one made in China? I think I would. How about you?<\/p>\n

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I’m not going to wax political — I’m not that crazy – but it seems to me if we want more jobs in this country we need to make more stuff in this country. Where has all the common sense gone? We threw billions at the Wall Street fat cats who colluded with investors to offer impossible loans\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4046,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4042"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4042"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4045,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4042\/revisions\/4045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}