we arent as dire as we were,,,

but how do we improve and sustain job creation in the us?

Should we stamp a manufacturing-country-of-origin tax on goods entering?

Should we fine companies with no manufacturing facilities here?

OR

Should the consumer wake up and refuse to buy un-American made products?

I dont know. They are good questions. There are those who believe american products arent up to par with others so they continue not to patronize them. I dont see much difference in products, honestly. I try to patronize american made when I am consciously deciding.

Often times though, I do just buy the brand I Am familiar with which could be american made or not.


I think Clinton makes sound suggestions here
http://voicesof.us/2012/econ911/its-economy-stupid-bill-clinton/

If we didn't buy foreign, everyone would be running around buttnekkid.

Where's all them jobs Hussein promised?

a cool site for american made

http://www.acontinuouslean.com/the-american-list/

Politicians can promise, but Congress has to deliver. Except this time, it was business that didn't deliver...

techinically, going from a negative to a positive is an increase

but the employment is still not where most would prefer it to be, including myself

Stop raising taxes on existing businesses...

Stop creating new regs and restrictions, in fact, reduce or eliminate many current regs...

Reduce start up costs to new business, wait until the business has a leg up to take a piece of the action...

STOP GROWING GOVERNMENT OBAMA!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I checked out a couple of sites selling jeans. 175.00 a pair?
If you can afford to buy you and your kids clothes there, I'm gonna' foster a few kids and go on welfare.

Don't forget to cut the corporate tax rate to 25% to bring it in line with the rest of the world.

If you count the folks that quit looking for jobs and not just those on the UA list, I trust you will see the unemployment rate is up around 20%.

Me toO...

there is a direct correlation between the start of the trade deficit and wage stagnation.

our economy is based on debt driven consumption and service industry jobs.

as the higher paying jobs have disappeared and the service sector has grown the amount of available cash to spend has dwindled.

as china and india now have the ability to manufacture products at a much lower cost and Americans savings accounts have shrunk it is not unreasonable to expect people to buy the cheaper products produced overseas.

GM is a perfect example of how American manufacturing went into the toilet.

their cost of producing a car was automatically $2500 per vehicle more than Toyota even with both making cars in the US.

how do you compete when your competitor is making better quality products and asking for less money than your inferior product?

another problem are these free trade agreements they are implementing.

NAFTA has cost at least 3 million manufacturing jobs and has led to massive government subsidies of the agriculture industry.

not the small family farmer, but the massive agri- corporations.

they have flooded the Mexican market and that has been a huge contributing factor to the massive influx of illegal immigration into the US.

free trade agreements with countries that have populations that can't afford your products is idiotic policy and a massive drain hole opening with the sucking sound of another few million manufacturing jobs going to Colombia and South Korea..

you reap what you sow..

Yes it is.

no doubt

as the unemployment rates in other years would be higher too

consistency requires a consistent standard for measurement to truly compare,,,

And this reminds me..along with de-regulating....STOP BIG BUSINESS INCENTIVES....lets have a level palying field for a change...

the best thing to happen to GM and Ford was for Toyota to come in and kick their a$$es.

they had no choice, but to improve the quality of their products.

if it wasn't for Toyota GM would still be making junk cars and trucks and charging top dollar for them.

that is the free market actually working.

something that doesn't happen very often in this country.

Washington needs to lower taxes and lift regulations on businesses.

And what is sad, after American tax dollars bailed out GM. GM is moving it's production of cars to China. Partnering with the Communist Government. Try to get a job over there United Auto Workers.

#1 Today there are 88 million working age Americans that are not employed and that are not looking for employment. That is an all-time record high.

#2 When Barack Obama was elected, the percentage of unemployed Americans that had been out of work for more than 52 weeks was less than 15%. Today, it is above 30%.

#3 There are 1.2 million fewer jobs in America today than there were when Barack Obama was inaugurated.

#4 When Barack Obama first took office, the number of "long-term unemployed workers" in the United States was approximately 2.6 million. Today, that number is sitting at 5.6 million.

#5 The average duration of unemployment in the United States is hovering close to an all-time record high.

#6 During the Obama administration, worker health insurance costs have risen by 23 percent.

#7 Since Barack Obama has been president, the average price of a gallon of gasoline in the United States has increased by 90 percent.

#8 Since Barack Obama has been president, home values in the United States have declined by another 13 percent.

#9 Under Barack Obama, new home sales in the U.S. set a brand new all-time record low in 2009, they set a brand new all-time record low again in 2010, and they set a brand new all-time record low once again during 2011.

#10 Since Barack Obama took office, the number of Americans living in poverty has risen by more than 6 million.

#11 Since Barack Obama entered the White House, the number of Americans on food stamps has increased from 32 million to 46 million.

#12 The amount of money that the federal government gives directly to Americans has increased by 32 percent since Barack Obama entered the White House.

#13 According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the percentage of Americans living in "extreme poverty" is now sitting at an all-time high.

#14 When Barack Obama first took office, an ounce of gold was going for about $850. Today an ounce of gold costs more than $1700 an ounce.

#15 Since Barack Obama became president, the size of the U.S. national debt has increased by 44 percent.

#16 During Barack Obama's first two years in office, the U.S. government added more to the U.S. national debt than the first 100 U.S. Congresses combined.

#17 During the Obama administration, the U.S. government has accumulated more debt than it did from the time that George Washington took office to the time that Bill Clinton took office.

#18 The U.S. national debt has been increasing by an average of more than 4 billion dollars per day since the beginning of the Obama administration....when Kardashian became president unemployment stood at 6.5%...he wanted the job and has made everything worse...and lastly...HE INHERITED A TRIPLE A RATING !!!