Made In America Research Paper

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Made in America In this economy people find it difficult to buy things that are Made in America for several reasons. It is difficult to find things that are actually Made in America and if you find something the price is usually higher than the same item made in China, India or Honduras. However in this economy we need to buy things Made in America because we are putting Americans out of work when we purchase things made in other countries. The United States Government has approximately 300 million people to make policies for and the Chinese Government have a few people who make policies for the over 1 Billion people who live there. That is the huge difference in why our Government has difficulty making policies to keep manufacturing…show more content…
Awhile back 60 Minutes did a story on a town that lost its manufacturing company to offshoring. The entire town closed up, including the local restaurants, hardware stores and movie theater. The people who lived there did not have work so they could not afford to go out to the movie theater where the service people worked. The people who worked at the surrounding companies that supported the workers at the manufacturing company could not survive on the other service people who worked in town. They needed the support of the manufacturing company to have the town survive. Our Government needs to be more involved with helping the American businesses by using trade agreements and import quotas similar to the ones that Ronald Regan imposed. Regan imposed temporary quotas on some Japanese goods, trying to give American manufactures the time to compete with the reliability and efficiency of the cars arriving from Japan. However, the plan did not work as Regan had hoped it would. The Japanese opened factories in the United States. It helps keep jobs in America however the largest dollar still travels overseas to the parent company. Just because a Toyota or Suzuki is made in the United States and we employ American workers, the majority of the money goes back Japan for the parent

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