"I just finished reading"

[dusty]

Many of us on this forum engage in a debate about how important it is to "Buy American" and while I agree, I don't believe that just buying American Made is the solution. I believe that the real problem is that we no longer "Manufacture American".

There is a book at Barnes and Noble that I believe should be mandatory reading for those who want to pursue this debate and especially those who keep pushing the discussion.The book is "Winner Take All", by Richard Elkus.

From the Publisher


Over the past thirty years, the United States has lost commanding leads in business after business. We no longer make cameras, TVs, MP3 players, cell phones, or DVD players, and we have become the world’s largest debtor nation. Everyone thinks this is because of cheap labor costs, but in fact Asian leaders have a fundamental and different way of thinking about business. They are playing a different game. If the U.S. wants to regain its competitiveness and preserve its global power, it must play the game as it’s played in the rest of the world. Winner Take All tells us what it takes to be competitive, and how we need to reform our thinking to regain what we have lost. Richard Elkus isn’t afraid to bring a few sacred cows to the slaughter. This is the essential primer for any policy maker, business leader, or general reader interested in knowing how America can regain the economic clout it once had.

[woodburner]

If foreign oil is in our country, who's gasoline do you purchase? All the oil is blended together with U.S. oil to make fuel, so I guess we all need to start riding our bicycles to the woodworking store, if you can find a bike made in the U.S..

[a1gutterman]

If foreign oil is in our country, who's gasoline do you purchase? All the oil is blended together with U.S. oil to make fuel, so I guess we all need to start riding our bicycles to the woodworking store, if you can find a bike made in the U.S..

Hi woodburner,

Nice one. ]TRY[/B] to do what each one of us thinks is right for ourselves, our families and our country. Knot every one of our desires is possible; and 2) We do knot import oil from China (but we probably do that bycycle).

Hi Dick,

regarding:

Tim,
If your premise is accepted, then we have to agree that the nations comprising the UN (excepting the USSR - now Russia, et al) at the time of the Korean Conflict are still at war with China. We also are "at war" with France (the Vichy French - north Africa), Austria (as a consequence of Germany's annexation), Panama, Cuba, etc.
I guess that my definition of "war" is not that of armed hostilities but a declaration of a "state of war". We obviously differ on this point, but if we consider "economic war" maybe we are both on the same side of the argument.
Dick

I do knot know enough about some of the relationships that you mention to even comment on them, but as I have said in more then one post: All I can do is TRY to do what I believe is best for myself, my family and my country. And, yes, I wood consider that we are currently involved in an "economic war" with China, so I guess we stand united.