“I am firmly opposed to the government entering into any business the major purpose of which is competition with our citizens... for the Federal Government deliberately to go out to build up and expand... a power and manufacturing business is to break down the initiative and enterprise of the American people; it is the destruction of equality of opportunity amongst our people, it is the negation of the ideals upon which our civilization has been based.” PeopleHas BeensGovernmentPurposeOpportunityBreakCitizensCivilizationMajorsIdealsDestructionCompetitionEnterpriseInitiativeFederal GovernmentEnteringBreaking DownManufacturingNegationEquality Of Opportunity Book:March 4, 1929, to October 1, 1931 Source: March 4, 1929, to October 1, 1931
“During the 1960s, and again in the 1970s, growth in manufacturing productivity in the United Kingdom was the lowest of all the seven major industrial countries in the world. During the 1980s, our annual rate of growth of output per head in manufacturing has been the highest of all the seven major industrial countries.” WorldHas BeensCountryGrowthUnitedMajorsHighestSevenRateProductivityKingdomsLowest1960sManufacturingAnnualsOutputUnited Kingdom Author:Nigel Lawson
“Canada, the United States and Mexico, we developed these energy reserves that we have in this North American region. And you can see a not only driving down the cost of electricity but a major manufacturing boom in this country. Couple that with tax policy, reduction, reducing the corporate tax rate, and that I think a renaissance in manufacturing like we've never seen in this country and really drive the economy.” ThinkingCountryStatesEnergyUnitedUnited StatesEconomyPolicyCoupleCostTaxesMajorsRateDrivingCorporateCanadaRegionsMexicoReservesElectricityReducingManufacturingRenaissanceReduction Author:Rick Perry
“We need major investments for rebuilding the infrastructure of America in a very forward-looking way that reduces our dependence on foreign oil. It is a commitment to innovation, to science, to keep America number one and competitive and grow our manufacturing base.” WayNeedsAmericaGrowsNumbersMajorsCommitmentInnovationInvestmentOilDependenceInfrastructureManufacturingRebuildingForeign Oil Author:Nancy Pelosi
“Caterpillar was quite important because that was the first manufacturing industry that used Reaganite strike-breaking techniques. They illegally called in scabs to break a major strike. It was reported pretty well in the Chicago Tribune, who pointed out something very interesting. They said that the workers got very little support in Peoria when scabs illegally broke the strike, and that was particularly striking because that whole community had been built up by the union - it was a union-based community.” FirstsWellsLittlesSaidImportantWholeUsedCommunityInterestingBreakSupportIndustryMajorsBuiltUnionsWorkersStrikesTechniqueBrokeChicagoThey SaidVery InterestingManufacturingCaterpillarsScabsPeoria Author:Noam Chomsky
“If you ask an economist what’s driven economic growth, it’s been major advances in things that mattered - the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that.” IfsProblemAsksGrowthEconomicMajorsMassDrivenOrganizedOur SocietyEconomistFarmingEconomic GrowthManufacturingMechanization Author:Larry Page