connieb
Senator
I think honestly the only way to get those jobs back is massive tax cuts/ programs offered to corporations to manufacture here. Which is of course never popular. But, I am not talking about income taxes - I am talking tax credits based on the number of employees the number of jobs at 200% of minimum wage, or some other method do encourage production here.
I would like to see our government curb its spending that goes to foreign owned companies - NOT by cutting those companies out but by doing what has been successful in getting minority owned business more market share, setting quotas. I.e. 95 % of all federal spending should be have to go to US owned businesess. That doesn't prohibit foreign owned businesess, and doesn't prohibit them teaming or forming an US owned arm, but it would ensure more of our government spending would stay here.
I would also like to see quota's requiring a certain amount of small business spending. If we require the government to use small businesses that would help offer middle class jobs here in the US because most busineses that qualify as small businesses don't have overseas connections and outsourcing.
Part of the deterioration of our middle class is related to all the mergers and aquisitions of small companies by larger companies, who had upper hands with labor, and essentially would always reduce workers or outsource. And, they can because they are disconnected. But, a 10Million a year business CAN compete and they are not disconnected from their employees - so layoffs hurt they are people they see every day, outsourcing hurts because they are letting go people they have known for years. With the increase technology today, and the availablility and overall decrease in expense, small businesses can be just as competitive as large ones, but our goverment needs to make a concerted effort to deal with them, both at fed and state level.
connie
I would like to see our government curb its spending that goes to foreign owned companies - NOT by cutting those companies out but by doing what has been successful in getting minority owned business more market share, setting quotas. I.e. 95 % of all federal spending should be have to go to US owned businesess. That doesn't prohibit foreign owned businesess, and doesn't prohibit them teaming or forming an US owned arm, but it would ensure more of our government spending would stay here.
I would also like to see quota's requiring a certain amount of small business spending. If we require the government to use small businesses that would help offer middle class jobs here in the US because most busineses that qualify as small businesses don't have overseas connections and outsourcing.
Part of the deterioration of our middle class is related to all the mergers and aquisitions of small companies by larger companies, who had upper hands with labor, and essentially would always reduce workers or outsource. And, they can because they are disconnected. But, a 10Million a year business CAN compete and they are not disconnected from their employees - so layoffs hurt they are people they see every day, outsourcing hurts because they are letting go people they have known for years. With the increase technology today, and the availablility and overall decrease in expense, small businesses can be just as competitive as large ones, but our goverment needs to make a concerted effort to deal with them, both at fed and state level.
connie