North American Manufacturers Cite High Level of Supply Chain Risk

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More than one-third of North American manufacturers say they’ve experienced a significant supply chain disruption in the past three months.  Risk

Chrysler drops three electric vehicles despite having touted them to get billions in government bailout cash

3 comments November 9th, 2009

How can this be?

If you believed all the talk from Chrysler about how our tax dollars would help finance its fast-track electric-vehicle future, you’re in for a big disappointment.

Chrysler has disbanded the engineering team that was trying to bring three electric models to market as a rush job, Automotive News reports today. Chrysler cited its devotion to electric vehicles as one of the key reasons why the Obama administration and Congress needed to give it $12.5 billion in bailout money, the News points out.  see the rest here..  Electric

New Business, Not Small Business, Is What Creates Jobs

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According to the Census Bureau, nearly all net job creation in the U.S. since 1980 occurred in firms less than five years old.

There are countless new businesses sparking job creation throughout the U.S. economy. But countless other young companies never expand or even get off the ground because of regulatory and economic barriers.

Policy makers should be eliminating these barriers and creating incentives to foster the creation and growth of new businesses. Four measures to do so stand out: see the here..  New

Italy Casts Growing Global Presence in Equipment and Machinery

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A good market if you export components… ItalyMachinery

U. S. Still on Top of Manufacturing World

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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

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

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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

Chrysler Quality Chief: We’re not in Denial

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There are more than 400 journalists, photographers, analysts, dealers, public officials and PR folks filing into Chrysler’s styling dome today for CEO Sergio Marchionne’s long-awaited five-year business plan.

Here’s a live link to the discussion updates from Detroit Free Press…  FIAT

House Republicans Find 111 New ‘Bureaucracies’ in Health Care Bill

2 comments November 3rd, 2009

 How on earth could a corporation, let alone the Federal Government, manage an organization with this vast bureaucracies?….ugh… bill

Manufacturers Not Happy With Health Bill’s Costs Impact

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Proposed 5.4% surtax on high income is in essence another tax on small businesses as majority pay taxes at individual income rate due to how they are organized.  See the rest here…  NAM