"Words that make actions speak louder."
Did you know that almost every conservative politician in the country has signed a pledge to encourage big multinational corporations to keep sending jobs out of the country? Grover Norquist, head of the lobbying organization Americans for Tax Reform, is one of the leaders of the modern “conservative movement.” Norquist is well-known (among certain circles) […]
On Friday the US International Trade Commission (ITC) determined that US producers are harmed by Chinese “dumping” (selling below cost, government subsidies…) of seamless pipe. This was in response to a a joint petition of the United Steelworkers and U.S. pipe makers against China imports of seamless carbon and alloy steel line and pressure pipe. […]
I’ll be in Erie, PA to cover a “Keep It Made In America” Town Hall this evening. If you are in the Erie, PA area, tonight’s event will be at 5:30 pm at the Bayfront Convention Center will feature the following guests: Scott Paul, Executive Director, Alliance for American Manufacturing Rep. Kathy Dahlkemper, (D-PA) 3rd […]
Driving across Ohio toward Wheeling you pass one small manufacturing company after another – but not too many with lots of cars in the employee parking lot. I stopped in a coffee shop in a small township. They offered me a cookie, and when I declined, the owner said, “We’re giving them away, it’s our […]
Thursday evening I attended the “Keep It Made In America” Town Hall in the John Spitzer Conference Center at Lorain County Community College, an impressive, large campus. Lorain, Ohio is another town with closed factories, boarded-up houses, high unemployment, and ringed by the national big-box vulture chains whose business model is to suck the remaining […]
I have just learned that tonite’s “Keep It Made In America” Town Hall in Wheeling, West Virginia will be webcast live starting at 5:15PM EST. Visit the Wheeling Town Hall – Live page for the webcast. From their page: With the election less than three weeks away, West Virginia Senate candidates will address the issue […]
Yesterday I was in Jackson Michigan to attend the 2010 “Keep It Made In America” Town Hall Tour meeting. It was a very well-attended event, and everyone I spoke with seemed energized because someone is out there talking about what they consider an important issue, and thought that manufacturing is vitally important to the country, […]
I am joining and writing about the “Keep It Made In America” Town Hall tour. (Click through for more info and a map.) The tour is from October 12-29 and I will be joining from October 13-19, starting tomorrow in Jackson, Michigan. The official tour announcement: Creating Jobs Takes Center Stage at “Keep it Made […]
I will be joining and writing about the “Keep It Made In America” Town Hall tour. (Click through for more info and a map.) The tour is from October 12-29 and I will be joining from October 12-19. The official tour announcement: Creating Jobs Takes Center Stage at “Keep it Made in America” Fall Tour […]
I am in Flint, Michigan today, getting ready to drive down to Jackson for this evening’s “Keep It Made In America” Town Hall. Flint has been through it and has come out the other end. Now the rest of us are going through what Flint has been going through. Many people know about Flint from […]