As\nyou might expect my heroes are people who have played a role in trying to alert\nAmericans to the effects to our economy of the decimation of American\nmanufacturing and the dangers of outsourcing manufacturing to China and other\ncountries. These are real people and none\nare elected officials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This\nmonth marks the 13th<\/sup> year of my journey to do what I could to save\nAmerican manufacturing. In May 2007, I e published one of my periodic San Diego\nCounty Industry reports that I had been writing since 2003. I titled it, \u201cCan U.S. Manufacturing be\nSaved?\u201d My report had grown from four pages to 13 pages, and I realized that\nwhat I was documenting about the loss of manufacturers in San Diego and California\nwas going on all over the country. \nThat\u2019s when I made the decision to start writing my first book, Can\nAmerican Manufacturing be Saved? Why we should and how we can<\/em>, published in\nMay 2009. In the course of researching\nand writing my first book, my second edition of the same (2012), and my third\nbook, Rebuild Manufacturing \u2013 the key to American Prosperity<\/em> (2017), I\nhave connected with many people who shared my concerns and were early advocates\nof saving American manufacturing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n My\nfirst set of heroes are those who either wrote books, articles, or newsletters that\nI came across researching my first book. When I was writing my reports, I was\nblaming the loss of manufacturing in California on the bad business climate,\nhigh taxes, and the cheap Chinese wages. These heroes expanded my knowledge\ngreatly by showing that it was our primarily our national trade and tax\npolicies, the trade cheating of China and other Asian countries, and corporate\ngreed that was responsible for losing over five million manufacturing jobs\nbetween the year 2000 and 2009. In\nalphabetical order, my heroes are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Michael P. Collins<\/a> is author of\nSaving American Manufacturing, Growth Strategies for Small and Midsize\nManufacturers<\/em>, published in 2006 and its companion handbook, The Growth Planning\nHandbook. Prior to becoming a writer, he was Vice President and General Manager\nof two divisions of Columbia Machine in Vancouver Washington. He is President\nof MPC Management, a consulting company that focuses exclusively on the\nproblems and challenges of small and midsize manufacturers (SMMs) of industrial\nproducts and services. His book is written from the viewpoint of what\nmanufacturers can do to save themselves and grow their business. I arranged for him to come to San Diego to\ngive a presentation to the Operations Roundtable of the American Electronic\nAssociation in 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lou Dobbs<\/a>, is an\nAmerican television commentator, radio show host, and the anchor of Lou\nDobbs Tonight<\/em> on Fox Business Network, and author of Exporting America,\nWhy Corporate Greed is Shipping American Jobs Overseas<\/em>, published in 2004\nas hard cover and 2006 as a paperback. In his book, he \u201ctakes aim at the\ncorporate executives and Washington politicians who profit by exporting U.S.\njobs overseas\u2014and shows readers what they can do to save not only their own\ncareers, but the American way of life.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Ralph Gomory<\/a>, who is well-known for his mathematical research and his\ntechnical leadership. For twenty years he was responsible for IBM\u2019s Research\nDivision, and then for 18 years was the President of the Alfred P. Sloan\nFoundation. He is the co-author with the late William J. Baumol of the book, Global\nTrade and Conflicting National Interests<\/em>, published by MIT Press in 2001. After\nconnecting by phone and email for years, it was nice to finally meet him at the\nCoalition for a Prosperous America trade conference in Washington, D. C. in\n2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Richard\nMcCormack, journalist and founder\/publisher of Manufacturing & Technology\nNews which he found in 1994. McCormack also served as the editor of the 2013\nbook on revitalizing manufacturing, ReMaking America<\/em>. I read every issue\nof MT&N from July 2007 until it stopped publication at the end of 2016. He\nwas also recognized as an American Made Hero by AmericanMadeHeroes.com<\/a> for his newsletter \u201ccoverage of the profound financial and\neconomic ramifications of the shift of industrial capability from the United\nStates to Asian competitors.\u201d He wrote \u201cthousands of articles on outsourcing,\nindustrial and technological competitiveness, government policies, and trends\nrelated to management, quality, technology and markets.\u201dMr.\nMcCormack is currently Press Secretary and Program Manager, Office of Public\nAffairs, for the Department of Commerce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Peter Kent\nNavarro<\/a> is a Harvard Ph.D. economist and\nauthor of several books. I read his book The Coming China Wars<\/em>,\npublished in 2006, while I was researching my book. At that time, he was a professor\nof public policy at the University of California, Irvine. He currently serves\nin the Trump administration as the Assistant to the President, Director of\nTrade and Manufacturing Policy, and the national Defense Production Act policy\ncoordinator. I first met Mr. Navarro when he was a professor at the University\nof California, San Diego and running for mayor in 1992. I also had the pleasure\nof seeing him when I attended the trade conference in 2018. I also read his\nbook, Death by China<\/em>, which he co-authored with Greg Autry, published in\n2012. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Raymond\nRichman, Howard Richman (son), and Jesse Richman (grandson), authors of Trading\nAway our Future: How to Fix Our Government-Driven Trade Deficits and faulty Tax\nSystem Before It’s Too Late,<\/em> published by Ideal Taxes Association in 2008.\nRaymond died in October 2019 at the age of 101. His tribute by Ideal Taxes states,<\/a> he \u201cauthored four books, dozens of journal articles and hundreds\nof commentaries about economic development, tax policy and trade policy\u2026Beginning\nwith a commentary in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review <\/em>on September\n14, 2003 (The Great Trade Debate<\/a>), he became\none of the first advocates of a policy of balanced trade, <\/em>an\nalternative to the free trade vs<\/em>. fair trade <\/em>debate. <\/em>His\nessential argument was that trade, free or not, benefits both countries if<\/em> it\nis balanced.\u201d I am sorry that I didn\u2019t get to meet him before he died.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Roger\nSimmermaker, author of How Americans Can Buy American: The Power of Consumer\nPatriotism<\/em>, third edition published in 2008. He also writes Buy American\nMention of the Week articles for his website and World New Daily. His book\nprovides a guide to assist American’s who wish to purchase products made in\nAmerica and discusses the importance of “Buying American” for the\nfuture economic independence & prosperity of America. He earned\nspecial recognition as an American Made Hero<\/a>.\n<\/em><\/strong>After years of connecting to him by phone and email,\nit was a pleasure to also meet him at the same trade conference in 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n