Take the “Made in America” Pledge
I’ve been waiting for one of the big national TV news organizations to take on the subject of manufacturing in the U.S. for quite some time. Well the topic has finally been broached by ABC in a week long series on “World News with Diane Sawyer” and I’m excited to suggest it for your reading/watching consumption. Here’s a link to their “Made in America” web page with lots of resources and video broadcasts.
The “Made in America” topic certainly isn’t new and why our national media hasn’t given it lots of coverage like ABC finally decided to do isn’t clear to me. U.S. manufacturing jobs have been a critical source of income to people in this country and with the jobless rate is so high right now it makes sense I guess to feature this important topic. Personally, I have a selfish interest in the success of U.S. manufacturing as my career has and does depend on it. So I guess I should be cheering that it has been given some national attention. Let’s call it way overdue but very welcome.
One of those resources at the ABC World News site is a page on the “Made in America” pledge. Now I don’t know how effective “pledge” type campaigns are in our culture today, but I certainly agree and encourage people to make a conscious decision to consider the companies, corporations and countries that they ultimately are supporting when purchasing. If the pledge or one of these stories is what gets that ball rolling in your family and causes purchasing changes, then way to go ABC.
The U.S. economy, manufacturing and jobs are pretty complex subjects and you can be sure there will be plenty more discussion to come about them all.
