How to Reindustrialize America

Job, jobs, jobs, creating good jobs, better jobs, more jobs, jobs which are financially self-sustaining in private industries whose products are largely immune from substitution with cheap imports, that is what this book is about. America can do this. With imagination we can devise solutions to our economic problems and open up vast opportunities for enhancing employment and advancing the reindustrialization of the nation. The key factor, however, is not just having the imagination, the plans, and available material means, but also engendering in the nation the enduring, vigorous determination to pursue public policy to make this happen. We as a society must have the proactive hope and energetic will to improve private and public practices and policies which are necessary to getting the job done. First, we must define the core problems, create the vision, and, then, illustrate the possibilities. Then, we must develop the cultural and political influence to create and support the necessary change. This book, unlike some, is not mostly just a list of complaints and analyses so much as a list of specific solutions. This book provides plans, proposals and methods for the creation of a popular based, private and public sectors cultural and political movement to reindustrialize our nation and, in so doing, create abundant middle class quality jobs for our country and its people. The economic development path ahead of us is full with hazards. Those hazards loom over us and threaten to pull us down into long-term decline. In some ways we are already in long-term decline. Nonetheless, a great possibility for progress is there before us if we can find our way ahead. It is a way full with promise if our hope and our zeal to succeed are strong. We must be optimistic, and then we must be busy about imagining and implementing better ways to pull our country out of its decline and move ourselves onto the path of prosperity and progress.