Re-Made in the USA: How We Can Restore Jobs, Retool Manufacturing, and Compete with the World - Hardcover

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

TODD LIPSCOMB is founder and President of the successful start up companyMadeInUSAForever.com. He spent nearly fifteen years in the tech industry, including executive roles overseeing Asia finance and worldwide operating expenditures of over $180 million per quarter with Western Digital Corporation. His experience watching Asian countries take American manufacturing jobs convinced him to move back to the United States and start MadeInUSAForever.com, which sells only high-quality American-made goods.

Todd Lipscomb is founder and President of the successful start-up company MadelnUSAForever.com. He spent nearly fifteen years in the tech industry, including executive roles overseeing Asia finance and worldwide operating expenditures of over $180 million per quarter with Western Digital Corporation. His experience watching Asian countries take American manufacturing jobs convinced him to move back to the United States and start MadelnUSAForever.com, which sells only high-quality American-made goods.

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PRAISE FOR RE-MADE IN THE USA

"Todd Lipscomb is talking about issues every single Americanneeds to be aware of and act on today. Every one of us, regardless ofage, race, gender, or political affiliations, is affected by the current tradeimbalance. Lipscomb's unique experience as an executive ininternational markets allows him to share no-nonsense information andsolutions that put the future of the United States back in your hands."
—Ed Schultz, MSNBC Television and nationally syndicated radio host

"Todd Lipscomb has done a great deal to advance the Buy American cause with his MadeInUSAForever.com online store of American-made products. His book is the next step and deserves a serious look from those who value supporting American producers that employ American workers."
—Roger Simmermaker, author of How Americans Can Buy American: The Power of Consumer Patriotism

"In the past quarter century, America has turned to seeking profit atany cost thanks to the greed of many of our multinational corporations.We Americans are the world's largest consumer economy. Because of unfairtrade policies, we import most of what we consume from countries where health, safety, and labor conditions are often like slavery by Americanstandards. I fully support Todd Lipscomb's efforts to supportsmall, family-owned American manufacturers."
—Joe Allen, retired apparel manufacturer, retailer, and business consultant

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America is in decline. Manufacturing jobs in the United States have fled for cheaper pastures, and the chances of a full recovery to our former glory are dim. The experts' belief that a service-based economy could sustain it has proven ill-advised, as Americans have experienced the ease with which these positions are terminated, only to be replaced with fewer and lower-paying jobs. China now funds much of federal government debt, and the nation now finds itself at China's mercy. And yet, isthere a silver lining on the doomsday cloud?

Re-Made in America outlines the very real obstaclesthat have been placed in America's path to recovery.Yet, it also spells out the weaknesses that could undo China and the strengths that could save the United States. Upon closer inspection, China's advantages are unethical at best and appear to be unsustainable as well. Their success relies on low labor costs, no environmental policing, low (or no) product and worker safety costs, and currency manipulation that values the yuan at 40 percent below its worth, among other disreputable means of getting ahead.

America, on the other hand, possesses a diverse and empowered workforce, greater entrepreneurial opportunities, and proximity to the most important customer base on the planet, which improves response time to customers' demands and lessens the huge environmental impact of oceanic cargo transport.

Re-Made in America lays out a blueprint to get the nation back on track. As citizens, consumers, and business owners, Americans can take a number of actions to revive the great industriousness on which this country was built:

Commit to buying American-made productsInfluence people to join you in this effort, and pressure retailers to follow suitUse your voice and your vote to encourage local, state, and federal governments to do what they can to attract and retain manufacturing jobsFocus business goals on the long-term payoff that comes from keeping jobs stateside rather than on short-term gains that might come from shipping operations abroad

Ultimately, America's fate is in its own hands. America's future is on the decline, but it doesn't have to be that way. Americans have a choice between doing nothing, and doing what they do best?rolling up their sleeves and working hard to fix it.