The fourth National Buy American Day is April 7, 2012. National "Buy American Day" IS A
NON PARTISAN AMERICAN MOVEMENT! In our hands is placed the power for the American consumer to change the course of economic destruction our country continues to be faced with. Without question,the American consumer has & will continue to dictate the success or failure of companies here and abroad! It is this m
ovement's hope that our unique blend of culture, colors, sexual orientation, religion, believer, non-believer, male, female, Democratic Party, Independent Party, Republican Party, Green Party, Tea Party, Coffee Party or No Party, white collar, blue collar or no collar, union, non-union or anti-union and the like will set aside our differences & come together as a nation of PATRIOTS to join with us in contributing to the resolve of our country's current job & economic crisis. With the rapid advancement of technology and the continued waves of outsourcing Americans jobs, especially those of the middle-class (both product & services sectors), are feeling the wrath of these corporate opportunists who set up shop on foreign soil via tax-free offshore investments. These culpable corporations exploit the very labor in which they invest by reaping the spoils of cheap labor (or should we say sweatshops) all the while eluding any concerns for the local environment because the laws regarding such are usually much less stringent than those in the United States and most leading countries. Corporate and political greed have become a deep seated cancer that has swept this country, leaving thousands of workers with the heavy burden of trying to find a job in it's wake. And if a job is found, too many times it results with the same outcome of being outsourced thus continuing the vicious cycle. Looking back, one can only marvel over the triumphs of the American worker, their great obstacles and challenges met by brave men and women who fought for, sacrificed, and risked their very lives to create the "American Dream". And with that dream, the opportunity to have a strong future for middle class workers and their families. Because of these great pioneers and all of their blood, sweat & tears, so became this great country we call the land of opportunity. Today, we owe those pioneers a great debt, for "We The People" have lost the much of their might and needed TRUE Patriotism to carry the torch that was once lit so many years ago. Where the future is unclear, we must work harder to reshape it in the best interest of working people here in the USA. We must ignite that torch with a greater blaze so that we may hand our children and the generations to come the very light needed to illuminate their path to a stronger and more prosperous future, for them and FOR ALL AMERICANS & THE AMERICAN DREAM. Perspective...
It is beyond the time in which America can afford to transfer the wealth to other countries by which our grandparents & parents created. Unless we do something NOW this generation & those following may be destined to achieve a lower standard of living then that of the generations before us. America never was and never should be solely a service economy. We need to develop and increase manufacturing again instead of outsourcing our most precious commodity --- the American worker. It is time to sound the clarion call, to ALL AMERICANS to build American & buy American. We all owe our children the right to a better life & the opportunity to achieve the AMERICAN DREAM...OUR HERITAGE IS NOT FOR SALE TO THE LOWEST BIDDER!
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Facts About The Deindustrialization Of America
Author Unknown
12-17-10
The United States is rapidly becoming the very first "post-industrial" nation on the globe. All great economic empires eventually become fat and lazy and squander the great wealth that their forefathers have left them, but the pace at which America is accomplishing this is absolutely amazing. It was America that was at the forefront of the industrial revolution. It was America that showed the world how to mass produce everything from automobiles to televisions to airplanes. It was the great American manufacturing base that crushed Germany and Japan in World War II. But now we are witnessing the deindustrialization of America. Tens of thousands of factories have left the United States in the past decade alone. Millions upon millions of manufacturing jobs have been lost in the same time period. The United States has become a nation that consumes everything in sight and yet produces increasingly little. Do you know what our biggest export is today? Yes, trash is the number one thing that we ship out to the rest of the world as we voraciously blow our money on whatever the rest of the world wants to sell to us. The United States has become bloated and spoiled and our economy is now just a shadow of what it once was. Once upon a time America could literally outproduce the rest of the world combined. Today, that is no longer true, but Americans sure do consume more than anyone else in the world. If the deindustrialization of America continues at this current pace, what possible kind of a future are we going to be leaving to our children? Any great nation throughout history has been great at making things. So if the United States continues to allow its manufacturing base to erode at a staggering pace how in the world can the U.S. continue to consider itself to be a great nation? We have created the biggest debt bubble in the history of the world in an effort to maintain a very high standard of living, but the current state of affairs is not anywhere close to sustainable. Every single month America does into more debt and every single month America gets poorer. So what happens when the debt bubble pops? The deindustrialization of the United States should be a top concern for every man, woman and child in the country. But sadly, most Americans do not have any idea what is going on around them. For people like that, take this article and print it out and hand it to them. Perhaps what they will read below will shock them badly enough to awaken them from their slumber. The following are 19 facts about the deindustrialization of America that will blow your mind...
#1 The United States has lost approximately 42,400 factories since 2001.
#2 Dell Inc., one of America's largest manufacturers of computers, has announced plans to dramatically expand its operations in China with an investment of over $100 billion over the next decade.
#3 Dell has announced that it will be closing its last large U.S. manufacturing facility in Winston-Salem, North Carolina in November. Approximately 900 jobs will be lost.
#4 In 2008, 1.2 billion cellphones were sold worldwide. So how many of them were manufactured inside the United States? Zero.
#5 According to a new study conducted by the Economic Policy Institute, if the U.S. trade deficit with China continues to increase at its current rate, the U.S. economy will lose over half a million jobs this year alone.
#6 As of the end of July, the U.S. trade deficit with China had risen 18 percent compared to the same time period a year ago.
#7 The United States has lost a total of about 5.5 million manufacturing jobs since October 2000.
#8 According to Tax Notes, between 1999 and 2008 employment at the foreign affiliates of U.S. parent companies increased an astounding 30 percent to 10.1 million. During that exact same time period, U.S. employment at American multinational corporations declined 8 percent to 21.1 million.
#9 In 1959, manufacturing represented 28 percent of U.S. economic output. In 2008, it represented 11.5 percent.
#10 Ford Motor Company recently announced the closure of a factory that produces the Ford Ranger in St. Paul, Minnesota. Approximately 750 good paying middle class jobs are going to be lost because making Ford Rangers in Minnesota does not fit in with Ford's new "global" manufacturing strategy.
#11 As of the end of 2009, less than 12 million Americans worked in manufacturing. The last time less than 12 million Americans were employed in manufacturing was in 1941.
#12 In the United States today, consumption accounts for 70 percent of GDP. Of this 70 percent, over half is spent on services.
#13 The United States has lost a whopping 32 percent of its manufacturing jobs since the year 2000.
#14 In 2001, the United States ranked fourth in the world in per capita broadband Internet use. Today it ranks 15th.
#15 Manufacturing employment in the U.S. computer industry is actually lower in 2010 than it was in 1975.
#16 Printed circuit boards are used in tens of thousands of different products. Asia now produces 84 percent of them worldwide.
#17 The United States spends approximately $3.90 on Chinese goods for every $1 that the Chinese spend on goods from the United States.
#18 One prominent economist is projecting that the Chinese economy will be three times larger than the U.S. economy by the year 2040.
#19 The U.S. Census Bureau says that 43.6 million Americans are now living in poverty and according to them that is the highest number of poor Americans in the 51 years that records have been kept. So, how many tens of thousands more factories do we need to lose before we do something about it? How many millions more Americans are going to become unemployed before we all admit that we have a very, very serious problem on our hands? How many more trillions of dollars are going to leave the country before we realize that we are losing wealth at a pace that is killing our economy? How many once great manufacturing cities are going to become rotting war zones like Detroit before we understand that we are committing national economic su***de? The deindustrialization of America is a national crisis. It needs to be treated like one. America is in deep, deep trouble folks. It is PAST time to wake up.
