"America won't exist if we don't build things." This author founded and runs a manufacturing startup, and he says we must restore our country's capacity to "build things," to manufacture. We must re-build our industrial base, in his theory, because every great power rose to prominence "by building the strongest industrial base of their time."
We could lose our strength. It could happen if we get too comfortable with our success and start to off-shore everything.
Wait . . that sounds like the present day. As an example, we in the U.S. made five ships last year, while China made 1,000 ships. We lead the world in pharmaceutical R&D but we imported 88% of the active ingredients. "Submarine production has slowed drastically," a reflection of our lack of skilled workers (yesterday's post).
Jobs in the trades can yield a good living. Not everyone must go to college or university.
from The Free Press
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