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You’ve got to check this out…it’s meant for kids, but, really, how can you go wrong at a website that rocks noisy engine revs, animated potato chips and full-color awesomeness?
It’s a new site, ManufacturingIsCool.com, and it’s the definition of fun-while-learning.
Produced by the Society for Manufacturing Engineers, the site uses an interactive “desk” to send kids on a journey through everything from how paper, Pringles and bike helmets are made, to the ins and outs of building a concept car—and way, way beyond.
Our friends at the Alliance for American Manufacturing (AAM) sent us the link, and we agree—it’s great to get kids excited about manufacturing. AAM is a partnership of the United Steelworkers and a group of leading manufacturers with a mission to strengthen manufacturing in the United States.
AAM Executive Director Scott Paul praised President Obama’s State of the Union bid to increase incentives for manufacturers who make goods in the United States—and hike taxes on companies that outsource. Community colleges, Obama said, should aim to train 2 million Americans with skills needed by local businesses.
As Paul told the Marketplace radio program:
We haven’t seen this amount of attention given to manufacturing by any president at least for 25 years. It gives me some hope we can translate the ideas in this speech into some practical policy solutions that will help to grow jobs.
Growing kids who appreciate what it means to make things—and make them here in the United States.
That’s a cool idea, too.
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I belong to the Steel Workers Union. I want to make steel for our company. Get the pipe line okay and allow fracking for natural gas. Please Obama get our union members back to work and quit playing politics .
Anus-throat, you would favor making more bullets if those bullets were going to be used to shoot your own parents!
As for the article, this was not very good journalism. Lots of union references, no mention that any of these products were absolutely manufactured in our USA.
I was waiting to see something that said in writing: “Alliance for American Manufacturing (AAM) sent us the link, and is a partnership of the United Steelworkers because all of these products were manufactured and wholesaled in our United States of America…” but, alas, there was not a word saying that.
Like the microwave ovens that have no marking on their box that say where the product was manufactured, and when you look at the product even the microwave labels on the back of the oven do not say where they were manufactured, and I would have to guess in China or Singapore or Thailand or Viet Nam… and some day probably in Miyanmar.
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Another utopian dream. Just more taxes and more bureaucrats and more regulations.
we need more steel production. Build the pipe line.
Should we build it like we did in Alaska, American welders, German welding rod, and Japanese pipe? That would help my brother union pipeline welders but not you, so I assume you would oppose the line if that were the case.
I can remember, if you can’t when the steelworkers contract negotiations were national news, you got a 5% raise, the price of steel went up 5%, the price of automobiles went up 5%, ect. as if labor was the only cost of making these products. The steelworkers got the blame for causing inflation. You have evidently fallen for the same type of BS from corps. You’ll vote against your own self interest because you believe it when they tell you that God rewards the good on earth by making them rich. If you are not being paid by the camber of commerce to post on this site you certainly never learned the process called critical thinking, but you do have circular reasoning down pat.
I thought Obama was going to create this utopia? His campaign speeches said he would. I wonder why it did not happen. He had both houses of congress and got everything he wanted. Oh My it just did not work.
Wrong, Anus-throat, you didn’t think. That has always been your problem.
Hey stg, do you know the meaning of the word “filibuster”? When you have 59 D’s and 41 R’s you can’t break the cloture rule. Even when you had 60 D’s you still had to contend with the likes of Nelson and Lameroux (or however you spell her name). They wre dino’s not D’s. My biggestproblem with BO is that he gave away the store before he negotiated. He started with low expectatons and then went lower.
Very good explanation, Silver Fox.
People: before Wall Street crash, government signed plenty of CONTRACTS for cheap laborer in Asia to benefit the returns of overdue shareholders funds during the dotcom fall that destroyed the world economy that have given the past shareholders their returns and opportunity to do what they want today although, GOD/ALLAH have intervene to stop the cliff from tiling.
Steve Jobs made it clear that America needed to regulate their labor laws so he ran with government contracts and made America look foolish. Remember the family who put the U.S. in this position starting from Kuwait into Iraq with more to follow if we do not vote in favor for OBAMA. Sad Florida has come up with another trick up their sleeves.
Well, you’ve got a lot of that ass-backward, Tera, and you need to read the rest of this blog to get the correct answer. You need to stop being a “believer in Hope” and start looking at what is really going on, because Barack O’Bam-ya is an infiltrator who is doing the very same exact things that Goering Warcrimes Bush did, except O’Bam-ya is a much more intelligent liar and sabateur than Bush ever was.