Bipartisan bill calls for national manufacturing strategy

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.workdayminnesota.org/index.php?news_6_4842

By Mike Hall
10 April 2011

WASHINGTON - During the past decade, 5.5 million American manufacturing jobs have disappeared, mostly due to bad trade and tax policies that encourage U.S. companies to move jobs overseas. Further fueling job loss has been the global economic crisis and lack of a comprehensive national manufacturing strategy.

U.S. Senators Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, and Mark Kirk, R-Ill., have introduced legislation requiring the development of such a strategy.

“If we’re going to out-compete and out-innovate other countries, it will require a national manufacturing strategy,” said Brown. “The United States has been without one, and our economy has paid the price.”

Scott Paul, executive director for the Alliance for American Manufacturing, said the United States is the only industrial nation in the world without a cohesive manufacturing strategy.

FULL story at link.

[OHdem10]

1. Good For Them. Mark Kirk as a Republican sponsoring this

needs to be recognized. Sen. Sherrod Brown is my
Senator and Kudos to them both.

[madrchsod]

3. kirk`s mine...

[madrchsod]

2. kirk is chameleon.....

he runs just to the right enough to get the rubes to vote for him. as soon as he`s elected he goes back into his Chuck Percy colors.

[DoBotherMe]

4. This is great!

K&R. Dana ; )