Time to invest in America and her people.
Manufacturing built this country and for too long we have given away the technology and jobs of producing products for profits.The idea is to have a law that specifies American Content in Government purchased products. Although there is the "Buy American Law", it doesn't go far enough nor has it been enforced to truly start the rebuilding of America. We need a "New Deal" approach.
I'm not talking protectionism, I’m talking reinvestingism (my word) in the very people who make this country great. Investing in our citizens through job creation is the surest way to guarantee we have the best, highly skilled workforce in the world.
Our National Security depends on the ability to manufacture our country's defense products especially in the time of need. Americans have always pulled together when necessary to protect our freedoms, now is the time to re-invest in America and re-tool our ability to sustain and win handily in the future.
Tax dollars should be required to be spent at home whenever possible with strict guidelines for these government contracts of billions of dollars a each and every day that is put out for bid.
We attract the result:
We as consumers and middle class workers reap what we sew. We are the benefactors of inaction and the recipients of our actions.Basically what this means is we perpetuate what happens through our actions or in-actions. We are constantly fed “bad news” about:
The economy Society GovernmentWhat happens is when we start to believe all of the “bad news”, it perpetuates more bad news. “People are tightening their belts”“Fear of layoffs”“Retail outlook not good”“Bad day on wall street”Looks pretty gloom and doom doesn’t it?
What would happen if people started saying: “I’ll spend the same as I always do, maybe more”“I’m not buying it, there’s not going to be layoffs, it will get better”“Retails sales will grow”“Wall street is doing better than expected”“We are going to have an American Made Tanker for our country’s defense”“We will create good paying American jobs”
Or how about this one: “Now that the Bush led Republican administration have successfully ran this country into the ground at our expense, there is hope on the horizon and although it will be challenging, we are going to make it through it and be better for it.”
The bottom line is simple. When we as a society accept what we read and hear as the truth, we perpetuate what happens next. Do we succeed or fail? My answer is always, we will overcome any obstacle thrown our way.
