Bring Back the Manufacturing Base

We cannot totally blame the American CEO and business owner for the loss of the American manufacturing base and all its jobs. The CEO and business owner must make decisions that positively effect their bottom line and increase shareholder value.

But there are several problems with this; One, very few Americans receive their income through the stock markets. Most people never even notice what is happening in the stock markets until it directly effect their livelihood. Most Americans are hardworking people that go to a job everyday hoping to return home with a pay check, not a pink slip. Two, any decision which takes jobs from America, shrinking the American manufacturing base, eventually will destroy the very American Companies that made those decisions. When jobs go offshore people who purchase goods from the companies no longer have the wherewithal to purchase goods. The CEO and business owner thinks that they can make more money selling to the people all across the world, so the person at home in America becomes less a customer. Therefore, to them, the prudent business decision is to ignore the effect your decision makes on your brother down the street. In reality what they are doing is making their home a third world country by forcing American workers to compete against labor in the sweat shops of China and Vietnam. In the end their mansions will be built in the heart of impoverished American towns, only protected by walled, secured gated communities. Crime will rise and American quality and customer service will diminish. Three, demise of the American manufacturing base creates security and sovereignty issues for America. Some of you who read this may not be people of the book, but if you have a Bible look in the Old Testament at 1 Samuel, chapter 13. You will find a story where a competing country, "the Philistines" convinced Israel that it was good business to let them do all their iron works since they were so much better at it. Over a period of several generations, all Israel's ironworks where outsourced to the Philistines. Once the Philistines were convinced that Israel no longer had the skills to manufacture weapons, they invaded them. How far are we from this? Has our skills and manufacturing ability diminished to the point we could be invaded either monetarily or physically? I will let you figure this out. American banks are being bought out by foreign owners. American companies are being bought out by foreign interest. Our infrastructure is being run and maintained by foreign interest.

We cannot place the blame, solely, on business. They are doing what appears prudent at first glance. But we can squarely lay the blame on legislatures who are bought out by these interest to the hurt of every American for nothing more than personal gain. Congress and the Senate are suppose to be the watchdogs for every American's interest, not their own. Oh, for men in power, who would place the interest of every American above their own.