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State of Ohio (Clermont, Brown, Adams, Hamilton, Pike, Warren, Scioto Counties) May 4, 2010 Election
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Rebuilding Manufacturing Base & Jobs in Southern Ohio

By Surya "Chili" Yalamanchili

Candidate for US Representative; District 2; Democratic Party

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For policies that allow American workers to compete on a level playing field. This means enforcing fair-trade provisions, creating domestic tax and regulatory policies in line with our peer nations, and a domestic industrial strategy that cultivates key industries.
REBUILDING MANUFACTURING To get America back on track, we must rebuild manufacturing by ensuring that our workers are able to compete on a level playing field. Manufacturing plays a critical role in our nation's health as it ensures a stable base of employment, helps balance our trade accounts, and through linkages to R&D, creates high-value knowledge economy jobs.

Our current 17% un/under-employment rate (U-6) is symptomatic of the structural issues of our economy. Our recent debt bubble and the consumption mania it fueled hid our true employment issues. If we do not rebuild our manufacturing base, we will have a new permanent unemployed class, a crippled US dollar due to ballooning trade deficits, and face the loss of high-value R&D, finance, and design jobs that are linked to production.

This means:

  • Enforcing fair-trade provisions with other countries
  • Creating domestic tax and regulatory policies in line with our peer nations
  • Crafting a domestic industrial strategy that cultivates key industries

Our willingness to invest and make the tough decisions necessary to rebuild manufacturing is essentially a referendum on our future. Are we willing to put up with unending budget deficits, growing trade imbalances, structural unemployment, and an external dependence for basic goods that creates a national security issue? Rebuilding our manufacturing sector creates a solid foundation for us to address the rest of our national challenges.

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