UK Manufacturing Output Jumps in September
Add comment November 6th, 2009
More good news about manufacturing production in the UK… UK
Surely that bodes well for the U.S.
Posts filed under 'Economy'
Fox News Reports Republican Resistance to Costly Health Care Bill
1 comment November 5th, 2009
Anyone who has really studied the American Revolution and the elections of 1800 would know that this kind of outcry and “politiking” is nothing unusual. It’s called freedom of speech. bill
Manufacturers can’t compete if costs are dictated to by government. The colonists resisted when the Brits imposed taxes on printed materials - (otherwise know as the Stamp Act). And the name calling between the parties in 1799 looks like today.
Madam Speaker; Tear Up This Bill
4 comments November 5th, 2009
Congressman Don Manzullo (R-IL) today joined dozens of his colleagues and
thousands of Americans on the steps of the U.S. Capitol for a news conference
to protest Speaker Pelosi’s government takeover of health care.
The House is scheduled to vote Saturday on Speaker Pelosi’s 1,990-page bill,
which would raise taxes $730 billion on Americans, cost 5 million more jobs,
threaten the health insurance of 114 million Americans, and spend more than $1
trillion.
Manzullo supports an alternative Republican bill that the nonpartisan
Congressional Budget Office states would reduce health insurance premiums up to
10 percent and cut the deficit by $68 billion without raising taxes and without
threatening the health insurance of millions of Americans.
Click here to watch
Manzullo’s speech on the steps of the Capitol this afternoon.
Federal Funds Help Manufacturers Compete
Add comment November 5th, 2009
Negatively impacted by foreign competition? You may qualify for federal funds here.. Funds
Open Letter to Illinois Patients
Add comment November 5th, 2009
The Illinois State Medical Society opposes:
- Government-mandated treatment guidelines that interfere with doctors’ clinical decision-making and the doctor-patient partnership.
- A government-subsidized “public option” that would unfairly compete in the health insurance market.
- A “public option” that ties physician reimbursement to Medicare’s inadequate payment rates and/or mandates physician participation.
- A single payor health system. ISMS believes health system reform should improve and expand upon the current public-private system and focus on incremental, evolutionary change.
- Further expansion of Medicaid as a means of covering the uninsured. Given Illinois’ track record of a woefully underfunded Medicaid program, we much prefer subsidies for the private purchase of health insurance by low-income patients.
See the rest here…ISMS
U. S. Still on Top of Manufacturing World
Add comment November 5th, 2009
The U.S. has never been more important in global manufacturing. Manufacturing.net spoke with Dr. Chris Kuehl, Economic Analyst, Fabricators & Manufacturers Association, to learn what he believes the future holds for U.S. manufacturing. See it here.. US
Fox News Reports Health Care Reform Assumes Millions Would Pay Fine Rather Than Get Coverage
3 comments November 4th, 2009
Read it here… Fox
The Worst Bill Ever
Add comment November 4th, 2009
Speaker Nancy Pelosi has reportedly told fellow Democrats that she’s prepared to lose seats in 2010 if that’s what it takes to pass ObamaCare, and little wonder. The health bill she unwrapped last Thursday, which President Obama hailed as a “critical milestone,” may well be the worst piece of post-New Deal legislation ever introduced. bill
Manzullo to Obama Global Warming Envoy: Cap and Trade will Destroy American Manufacturing
2 comments November 4th, 2009
Congressman Don Manzullo (R-IL) today told President Obama’s Chief Climate
Change negotiator, Todd Stern, that the massive tax increase and new spending
programs proposed in the Democrats’ “cap and trade” legislation will result in
enormous job losses and an exodus of American businesses overseas.
During a Foreign Affairs Committee hearing today, Manzullo disputed the
Administration’s claim that enacting cap and trade legislation will rejuvenate
the economy by creating new jobs and reducing greenhouse gases. Manzullo is the
lead Republican on the House Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific, and the Global
Environment, which has legislative jurisdiction over the State Department’s
Office of Global Climate Change. Manzullo also co-chairs the House
Manufacturing Caucus.
According to a landmark study published by the University of King Juan
Carlos in Spain, the Spanish economy suffered enormously after adopting a cap
and trade framework that is eerily similar to the proposal in Congress.
The study notes that for “every renewable energy job that the [Government] manages
to finance…the U.S. should expect …about 9 jobs lost for every 4
created[.]” The study also calculates that since 2000, Spain has spent
over $840,000 for every green job created, including massive government
subsidies for certain industries.
“One of four people I represent in northern Illinois earns their living in
manufacturing. What the Democrat majority is trying to do with cap and
trade will put even more of them on the unemployment lines,” Manzullo said. “As
the study conducted by the University of King Juan Carlos in Spain shows,
adopting a cap and trade regime costs far more jobs than it creates.
Furthermore, signing on to a multilateral treaty to bind the U.S. to
unrealistically high requirements to stop emissions, while rapidly emerging
economies in countries such as China and India collude together to exempt
themselves from similar limitations, is nothing more than unilateral
disarmament. It will simply result in the transfer of pollution problems
to these nations and a massive tax on the American people.”
Please click here
to view Manzullo’s comments during the hearing.
‘Cheers’ for Blue-Collar America
Add comment November 4th, 2009
Now here’s a guy that is out-in-front for us manufacturers. John Ratzenberger, known as “Cliff” on the long running and very popular TV show “Cheers” has dedicated to the careers for young people in manufacturing.
I and a few others had the privilege of having dinner with John earlier this year when he was doing some filming at the Techworks/Eigerlab.
This story is worth reading… Cheers
