ReIndustrialize America
In order to turn the economic tide and revitalize America, we must first reinvigorate our nation’s workforce (the most productive in the world) and provide our people with the opportunity to obtain good paying, secure jobs. To this end, we must recapture our nation’s former industrial greatness. America cannot sustain a high standard of living and expect robust economic growth without a vibrant and competitive manufacturing sector. The vigorous domestic production of durable goods is the essential engine that drives any technological economy. “Made in America” has to become the standard of quality in the world once again. The reindustrialization of America not only makes good economic sense, but it also ranks as a critical national security imperative. Anita de Palma believes that, in times of war, we need to have the available domestic manufacturing wherewithal to provide and build the crucial military assets required for the defense of our nation.
This is A BRIGHTER WAY!
A Plan to Reindustrialize America
Essential Components
- Amend NAFTA.
- Demand TRUE Fair Trade.
- Renovate the Trade Adjustment Assistance Program.
- Unionism.
- Invest in Emerging Technologies.
- Encourage Investment in America.
- Provide Tax Credits for Capital Improvements.
- Revise the Corporate Tax Code.
- Modify the Scope of The Small Business Administration.
The Critical Challenges We Now Face
America’s Steady Decline in Manufacturing: According to The Economist magazine, in 2005, for the first time since the industrial revolution, fewer than 10% of American workers were employed in manufacturing. “Since 1996 the number of good paying manufacturing jobs has shrunk by close to one-fifth in America.” The European Union has an industrialization program, so does Canada, so does Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong, South Korea and China; America does not.