Debate question
 

to the candidates:
Do you have and if so what are your plans to improve the ratio of products that are sold in America by Americans to be produced in America by Americans?

RE: Debate question
 

Stick....I don't think that politicians have anything to do with it. Economics does. With taxes and stuff this country can make incentives for business......but it's still up to economics. Now, if I was a politician, I would make the taxes in this country such for business that every country on earth would want to build plants here. The problem is that the prevailing winds wouldn't like that as giving "big business" a big break, even though it would mean millions of jobs and more dollars to the government in income tax. Until we have an education system that teaches our children that...the public will remain ignorant and blame everything on "big business". Meanwhile "big business" and jobs will "dee dee mou" the hell out of the US.

Pack

Stick
As long as leaders or policy makers make it INFINITELY more profitable for manufacturers to produce or make products ELSEWHERE,...that's where companies will move to.

Such good for both the company & shareholders, and just tough luck for The American Worker.

Hey,...just put yourself in some CEO's shoes for a second that bailed out to some foreign place. I don't get regulated & taxed-to-hell by their government, don't have to put up with unions & disgruntled workers, and also even end up making 2 to 3 more times more money than ever before.

Sure I have to pay-off grubby politicians, here too. But, and in comparison to the vast pay-offs and standard large political contributions mandatory for keeping government off back in America,...here the pay-offs come out to pretty-much chump-change.
Would have to be an idiot to move The Company back to America.

Neil

I should run for president......The last truck I bought Was sold here in Indiana.....Made in Indiana By Americans....and it was a TOYOTA!!!!!
bOOger the Patriot

Yeh Bob, made in America by Americans on property given tax abatements and environmental immunity by American politicians who can say "look at all those jobs I got for my district" and we suck that right up. OBTW, the Yen earned on that Toyota, over it's actual cost of production went to Tokyo mo-scosh and not to the school district where the factory is.

P.S. Bob, if you asked me you could have bought you any Ford, Lincoln, Mercury, Volvo, Jaguar, or Land Rover below dealer invoice and Jaguar engines are machined and assembled in the Cleveland Engine Plant #2 in Ohio to the tightest tolerances of any production engine in the world. Ford also builds the only mass produced, active suspension, four wheel drive automobile with a five star crash test rating in the world, the new Taurus and Sable.

I don't see a quick fix on this issue. Sadly the manufacturing base has left us for lower labor and cheaper cost. You won't find many companies who will pay $30 per hour when they can get the labor for $10 an hour and increase their profit margins. Benefits have gone to hell in a basket and these are the main cost affecting companies today. I don't see any fix on the horizon.

What I'd ask....
 

Mr. Candidate: have you read the FairTax Plan by Congressman John Linder and Neal Boortz? Do you realize that if this Fair Tax Plan was enacted into law, the manufacturing jobs, and other jobs as well, would retun to America? This being the case, why don't you actively support the FairTax Plan?

RE: What I
 

Milton S. Hershey, this year, will be joining H. J Heinz in rolling over in his grave. Hershey Chocolate is moving to MEXICO ...whoopee, and the unemployment rate will skyrocket in Hershey, Pennsylvania. They're even closing down Hershey Canada. I won’t buy another Hershey Bar. Reese's Peanut Butter Cups are my favorite and they are made by Hershey, but, I will not purchase another one!
M.S. Hershey had a dream... I will buy my OWN Sugar, Milk, Cocoa beans, (all natural mind you!) and make candy... (No tariffs etc...) even during the depression he and the Company made money...NOW some Corporate big wigs are ruining the name and the product M.S. created......What a bunch of college educated jerks.
So Hershey executives are closing plants in the U.S. , laying off over a thousand people, and destroying Mr. Hershey's dream, all to cut labor, material costs and AVOID PAYING ANY US TAXES!
The company will save about $170 million a year, all on the backs of the American people. The top executives will still make their mega bucks and the laid off workers will have to find other jobs, some probably at minimum wage due to their age. All this to take those jobs to India, China or Mexico.
So WHAT part of the 'GREAT' American Chocolate Bar is left? NOT ONE DAMN BITE!!!!! The new Hershey Bar producing countries are no doubt laughing at the Americans. They don't like us anyway. How long are Americans going to sit around and let big corporations do this to us? If we don’t have a pay check, we can’t buy a candy bar. Politicians be damned in Washington D.C. know we have had it with NAFTA, CAFTA and 'SHAFTA' and can’t afford to take it any longer!

RE: What I
 

I have been a hospital board member and I presently sit on the Hospital finance committee for our local hospital.
After nearly twenty years of studying hospital budgets I really believe something is going to have to be done to halt the tremendous increases of Health Care.
I don't want socialize medicine. But I believe nothing will stop the over charging and profit gouging that really hurts those in the upper lower incomes and lower middle income folks like me.

Keith