American manufacturing companies that are still here

dodge freak said
Blame the EPA and OSHA for making it so tough to compete with places like China that has little regulations. Its not the unions, not the "lazy" US workers, not our sightly higher wages but all the red tape and rules business need to follow.

Look back how the 1950's-60's were, we had good paying jobs, more workers belong to unions, life was good. Then all this safety and clean air rules came down and look what happen, other countries like China and Mexico were then able to make goods cheaper than the USA. Now we are told we are lazy, overpaid workers, not that it was the government own fault.

Factories need to have each job set up so anybody can do it. This was to get women in the factories doing any job the men could do. How nice, great idea but it drove costs sky high.

I like to see the EPA, NASA budgets cut by 50% or more.

The govenment played a major role in manufacturing being sent overseas with all these free trade agreements. There should be no free trade with anyone, it should be reciprocal. The proponents of free trade say that the people of America wouldn't be able to afford the items if they were made in the US, but if they were made in the US that means the people would have jobs so the could afford to buy them. It doesn't matter how cheap we can buy things, if all the jobs are sent overseas we won't be able to buy them anyway. The bottom line is we need to cut all this free trade and bring manufacturing back to the US. The price may rise some in the beginning, but like everything else it will settle. Tax everything coming into the US to bring prices on par with US made products and use that tax money to subsidize building US manufacturing facilities. That will stabilize product end cost, create jobs, and bring the US back to the industrialized nation that we once were.

We need to stop people like the "wonderful" Harry Reed who wants to give subsidies and tax breaks to a chinese company to build a solar farm in Nevada. Those subsidies and tax breaks were supposed to be for a US company, but I wonder how much Mr. Reed is getting kicked back by the chinese. They're not even using US manufactured parts, they're bringning everything from china.

And of course we need to get Ram trucks back from Mexico and Chrysler back from Italy.

Okay I'm done......for now:protest: