{"id":540,"date":"2009-02-27T08:10:51","date_gmt":"2009-02-27T15:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/?p=540"},"modified":"2009-03-07T15:51:46","modified_gmt":"2009-03-07T22:51:46","slug":"make-gloves-not-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/27\/make-gloves-not-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Make gloves, not war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When President Obama says we will <a href=\"http:\/\/2008caucus.blogspot.com\/2009\/02\/barack-obama-state-of-union-transcript.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;avoid the possibility of escalating protectionism&#8221;<\/a> I hear &#8220;We are not going to encourage the creation of any new American manufacturing or jobs&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe he *has* to say such things to keep the world economies stable.  But the unhealthy thinness, the one-dimensionality of American economic infrastructure reserves, is one of the reasons we have proven so vulnerable to economic fluctuations.  And there are other issues as well, as noted by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ontheissues.org\/Celeb\/Ross_Perot_Homeland_Security.htm\" target=\"_blank\">H. Ross Perot<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Manufacturing is vitally important for this reason: without the ability to manufacture, the US cannot defend itself. Manufacturing is important because it provides the greatest number of high-paying US jobs. These are the types of jobs that US workers need if they are to buy a house, build a retirement nest egg, and create a better future for themselves.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Manufacturing is our history, it is in our very soul.  Our country did not really begin to grow until we <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cincymuseum.org\/explore_our_sites\/cincinnati_history\/forming_new_world\" target=\"_blank\">started manufacturing machines that made manufacturing machines<\/a>.  &#8220;Protectionist&#8221; or not, we need to bring manufacturing back to our country.  To <a href=\"http:\/\/query.nytimes.com\/gst\/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE7D71E3FF931A1575BC0A965958260&#038;sec=&#038;spon=&#038;pagewanted=all\" target=\"_blank\">quote Perot<\/a> again:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We cannot defend this great country unless we can manufacture,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Can you imagine what would happen if we had to go to the rest of the world and ask for materials?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When President Obama says we will &#8220;avoid the possibility of escalating protectionism&#8221; I hear &#8220;We are not going to encourage the creation of any new American manufacturing or jobs&#8221;. Maybe he *has* to say such things to keep the world economies stable. But the unhealthy thinness, the one-dimensionality of American economic infrastructure reserves, is one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}