Free Trade isn't free

American products include Healthcare, pension, a living wage, the world's highest taxes, currency disadvantages and the blood cost of our citizens in war.

What's Wrong with American Football?

Football suffers from our educational system as does our culture. We no longer teach civics, American history and exceptionalism. This destorys our math and science education. It takes American motivation and basic educational building blocks of scholarship to get students involved in science and math. It was the simple education of one room schoolhouses and a single text that built the greatness of America.

McGuffey Readers dominated American education from the 1840s into the 1900s; even today there is a revival of their use among home schoolers.  In 2008, the McGuffey Eclectic Reader was ranked with Thomas Paine’s Common Sense and Alexander Hamilton’s The Federalist as “books that changed the course of U.S. history.” For seventy-five years, his system and his books guided the minds of four-fifths of the school children of the nation in their taste for literature, in their morality, in their school development, and, next to the Bible, in their religion.”The texts were the source of knowledge and motivation for American industrialists such as Henry Ford, Andrew Carnegie, H. J. Heinz, George Westinghouse, Thomas Edison, and John D. Rockefeller, as well as the founder of Kroger Company-A. H. Morrill.  Many American presidents, such as Lincoln, Harrison, Grant, Hayes, Cleveland, Harding, Garfield, McKinley, Truman, and Roosevelt attributed their scholarship to the McGuffey Reader. McGuffey approached education as a moralistic adventure. He interweaved morals, religion, and virtues into basic lessons. They promoted patriotism and nationalism through the “cult of Washington.” But Washington was only one of this heroic Pantheon of greats, which included Napoleon, Daniel Webster, Patrick Henry, and John Adams.  In the earliest lessons the virtues of perseverance, charity, patience, courage, industry, self-discipline, and cleanliness. These basic building blocks created great scientists, inventors, warriors, and business giants. 

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William McGuffey: Mentor to American Industry  search "skrabec" at Amazon.com

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Manufacturing Boom

I believe we are in the beginning of a new manufacturing boom. Factories are advertising jobs, the low end jobs are experiencing labor shortages, and business is once again looking to expanding in America. Don't fear the end of NAFTA or a Chinese trade war. We have the advantage in any economic war. In fact we have been at economic war for decades and losing! Trump is bringing back manufacturing! We need to get behind him.
The exceptional dream doesn't believe these jobs "are not coming back." That's an excuse used by the elite Democrats. Don't believe we are in a post-industrial age. Don't believe the politicians when they tell you that free trade is apart of democracy. No, free trade is a step towards world government and global socialism. It is a new global elite distributing the wealth. Manufacturing and America are one in the same, neither can exist without the other.

Remember the Alamo

Industrial Alamos and Martyrs of De-Industrialization

               The great de-industrialization of America has been blamed on poor, incompetent management and greedy, lazy union workers, and capitalists’ refusal to invest. They were said to lack the creativity of the founding owners, managers, and workers, but the opposite was true. Those founders and workers had their government behind them. In the early 1980s, the industrial centers came under attack by dumped cheap imports. At LTV Steel’s Pittsburgh Works (which had made steel for over 140 years continuously) the drilling pipe semi-finishing works had the largest and newest electric furnaces in the world. Yet, the finishing mills could purchase dumped semi-finished Brazilian steel blooms cheaper than the raw materials! even if everyone worked for free. The works set a world’s record in the production rate and quality of blooms, but could not compete with dumped steel prices. The union and management made endless concessions and creative new processing approaches as they waited, hoping their government that had always flooded the works on Election Day would help protect them from dumping. The help never came. The same was true for Akron’s Firestone tire plant, and New Jersey’s Mahwah Ford Plant and so many others. BUT 40 years later a wave of Trump voters would remember the Alamo. 

Pittsburgh not Paris

Finally, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Youngstown and America's industrial centers are being heard.
We are done giving our jobs to the world and feeling guilty for our success.

BUT beware of the unholy alliance of Mainstream media, democrats, and yes the Deep State talking points

1. This will hurt the environment - Answer the United States is the cleanest and will remain so!

2. The world will hate us- Answer we want their fear and respect -- we are tried of buying their friendship with our jobs

3. We will lose these new jobs-  Answer; they been telling us about these jobs since 1947-- Does any one have one of these new jobs? what we have seen is millions of lost jobs that is real

4. It will shut down our clean energy Answer WHY? we can still chase any profitable industry we want- make all the electric cars you want if their good people will buy

5. It will result in global warming: Answer; I'll still waiting on this promise for warming- still too much snow and too cold for outside swimming

THE SIMPLE ANSWER PITTSBURGH NOT PARIS

Coup d'é·tat by the Deep State

This constant attack by the Deep State controlled by the Democrats and mainstream media is a political takeover attempt. It is an effort to deny the will and vote of the people by the establishment. The president did what we might well do, but it doesn't fit the political establishment. Middle America stay strong and support your president, if we don't America will remain  controlled by an elitist establishment giving us cake from their table from endless parties and dinners. Appeal to Heaven and  God Bless the American citizens who stands against this takeover-- we need true patriots more than ever. . 

Say It Ain't So- Donald

Hopefully- we are not going down the old path of trading American jobs for political favors!! China is stealing our jobs and destroying our industries with unfair trade. North Korea is a separate issue! We can't change the world by surrendering jobs to gain political advantage. We citizens want our jobs and will stand against political challenges alone if necessary. Jobs are the economic hostages of political warfare- its like paying the demands of terrorists.

100 Days of Trump for Manufacturing

No President has accomplished more for manufacturing in 100 days.
$ Keystone pipeline
$ eneded Trans-Asian Trade deal
$ Ended War on Coal - eliminating endless regulations on coal
$ Reduction of EPA regulations
$ Executive order to look at steel dumping
$ personal interaction with business to bring jobs to America
$ Buy / Hire American order
$ started review of all trade deals
$ MOST of ALL a Focus to bring Manufacturing back-- not seen since William McKinley

Concerns on Trump's China Policy

I have been a supporter of Trump as a manufacturer since day one. i hope and pray he is not going down the old rabbit of trading American jobs for political favors from China. Our trade policy has been since World war II to use trade as an international political tool instead of helping jobs, workers, and manufacturing in the United States. American workers want jobs- we must deal with Korea as a separate issue not as a trade issue.

For you exceptional voters-- your vote counts- Trump Victories- repeal of out of country abortion federal dollars, a conservative and pro-life judge, a red line on the use of chemical weapons banded in the 1920s, repeal of EPA over reach regulations, more protection for religious liberty, challenges to "free" trade deals.

Exceptionalism - is a gift from our God but it begins with it the responsibility to up hold moral standards in a fallen world. It is the opposite of one world globalization, instead it is cooperative globalization. It is nationalistic but never militaristic or expansionist.