Bring Manufacturing Jobs Back to America

I live in Columbus Ohio and lost my manufacturing job to China and Korea (via Mexico, thanks to NAFTA). Ohioans don't see jobs coming back, or if they DO, then we don't have much faith that they will stick around.

We've seen jobs get created here, but then the companies move overseas because it's cheaper for Corporate CEOs to manufacture products in China and then ship them to the U.S. Tariffs MUST go back to 20% ... from the current 2%, in order to make it cheaper for CEOs to manufacture in the U.S.

Believe me ... all this talk of re-opening Ohio mills, re-tooled to manufacture wind turbines and solar cells, is bitter-sweet. Ohioans realize that without constraints on CEOs, as soon as the learning curve flattens out, these new manufacturing jobs will simply move overseas to join our old jobs.

If the CEOs can earn an extra dollar, they will put all their American workers out of a job and will move manufacturing to China - a country with no Union protection and no environmental standards.

We need to raise the import tariffs, to re-employ Americans, to bring "Made in America" back to our store shelves, and to thus take China's dirty energy-producing habits from them and put them under regulation.

Random thoughts:

1) Todd Palin is the Gov's Goon - why the media silence on this?

2) It will be harder to steal the election in Ohio because the Sec of State and most Presiding Precinct Judges are Democrats.

3) If Gore had won in 2000, we would be forcing ourselves to support his VP Lieberman for Prez this year. (I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.)

4) Republicans WANT to be told that it's OK to be stingy, racist, stupid, and and racist.

5) Corporate Media is run by rich Republicans who want to keep their tax cuts.

6) The Pickens Plan has nothing to do with clean, renewable energy, and everything to do with selling Pickens' natural gas supplies (which are neither clean nor renewable).