{"id":963,"date":"2020-04-28T19:33:41","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T02:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/savingusmanufacturing.com\/blog\/?p=963"},"modified":"2020-04-28T19:33:41","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T02:33:41","slug":"who-are-my-heroes-part-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savingusmanufacturing.com\/blog\/tradepolicy\/who-are-my-heroes-part-two\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Are My Heroes? Part Two"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

My\nadditional heroes are people with whom I connected after my first book, Can\nAmerican Manufacturing be Saved? Why we should and how we can<\/em> was published\nin 2009. We shared a focus on doing what we could to save and rebuild American manufacturing.\nAgain, they are presented alphabetically, not chronologically.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Greg Autry<\/a>, Ph.D., is \u201can educator, writer and technology entrepreneur.\nHe researches and publishes on space commerce, entrepreneurship, technology\ninnovation and trade policy. He is an Assistant Professor of Clinical\nEntrepreneurship with the Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies in the\nMarshall School of Business at the University of Southern\nCalifornia, where he teaches entrepreneurship and technology commercialization\ncourses.\u201d I met Greg when he was a doctoral candidate at the Merage School of\nBusiness at UC Irvine, before he became Senior Economist for the non-partisan,\nnon-profit organization.<\/em> Coalition\nfor a Prosperous America<\/a>,  We were also fellow board members of the\nnon-profit American Jobs Alliance for five years. Dr. Autry is the co-author of\nthe book Death by China<\/em> and a producer on the documentary\nfilm, Death by China<\/em>, (directed by Peter Navarro). His opinion\narticles have been published in major news outlets including the San\nFrancisco Chronicle, LA Times, Washington Times, Wall Street Journal, and\nSpaceNews. He was a regular contributor to Huffington Post and is now a regular\ncontributor to Forbes. He is currently on the advisory board of the Coalition\nfor a Prosperous America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Den\nBlack is President of the non-partisan, non-profit organization, American Jobs Alliance <\/a>(AJA).\nHe earned a BSME at Kettering University and worked as a Senior Strategist, Futurist,\nInnovator at Delphi Automotive Systems for 37 years.  Den invited me to join the board of AJA in\n2012 after he was referred to me by Executive Director, Curtis Ellis after we\nmet when he was on a West Coast trip. AJA is \u201cdedicated to fostering the\npublic\u2019s understanding of the American System of free enterprise, a system\nestablished by the Founding Fathers of the United States to develop the\ndomestic economy of the United States and promote the employment of Americans\nin diverse occupations through investment in infrastructure and promotion of\nkey industries and technologies in the United States.\u201d Currently AJA is promoting\na window decal <\/a> \u201cBoycott China for Jobs, Human Rights, Peace\u201d\nand AJA\u2019s affiliated website:  www.GetOutofChina.us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Don Buckner<\/a> is the\nFounder and CEO of MadeinAmerica.com, MadeinUSA.com, and MadeinAmerica.org. His\nvision started in 1998 \u201cwhen he attempted to find several American-made\nproducts online, but was unable to do so. Frustrated, he took matters into his\nown hands, purchasing the Domain MadeintheUSA.com. The website served as a\ndirectory resource connecting patriotic consumers to more than 300,000\nAmerican-made manufacturers for several years. He also acquired the Domain\nMadeInAmerica.com.\u201d After the company he founded in 1997, Vac-Tron Equipment,\nwas acquired in 2018, he and his wife decided to invest some of their profits\nto hold the first Made in America trade show. \nThey rented the convention center in Indianapolis, IN, where the first\nshow was held October 3-6, 2019. I met Don when I attended the show as one of\nthe many featured panelists and speakers. \nThe next Made in America show will be held at the TCF convention center,\nDetroit, Michigan Oct. 1-4, 2020.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dan DiMicco<\/a>, is an American businessman who is the former CEO and chairman of\nNucor Steel company and is now Chairman Emeritus. Dan was appointed to the\nUnited States Manufacturing Council in 2008 by then-U.S. Commerce Secretary\nCarlos M. Gutierrez, and served on the board until 2011. Dan also served\non the boards of the National Association of Manufacturers and the World Steel\nAssociation on the Executive Committee. He also served as a Senior\nTrade\/Economic Advisor to the Trump Campaign and the Lead on the USTR Transition\nTeam. He currently serves on the Board of Directors for Duke Energy\nCorporation and continues to represent Nucor on the US Council on Competitiveness.\nHe is currently Chairman of the Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA). He\nis the author of American Made: Why Making Things Will Return Us to\nGreatness<\/em>, published in 2015. I had the\npleasure of hearing Mr. DiMicco speak as the keynote speaker at several of the\nManufacturing Summits held in California between 2013-2018, when I was the\nchair of the California chapter of CPA and at the Trade Conferences held by CPA\nin Washington, D. C. during this same time period. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Curtis\nEllis was the Executive Director of the American Jobs Alliance, an independent\nnon-profit organization promoting pro-jobs and Buy American policies, when I\nmet him after my first book was published. He recommended me as a potential\nboard member to Den Black of AJA. He had previously worked in Congress and on\nfederal, state and local campaigns. For his work as a journalist, producer,\nwriter and reporter, he has appeared on 60 Minutes, HBO, NBC, CNN, NPR and in\nthe NY Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Tribune, TIME, Huffington Post,\nThe Hill, and other outlets. His commentary has appeared on CNN, MSNBC and\nradio shows nationwide. Currently, Mr. Ellis is currently Policy Director with America\nFirst Policies<\/a>. He served\nas senior policy advisor on the 2016 Trump-Pence campaign, was on the\nPresidential Transition Team, and served as special advisor to the U.S.\nSecretary of Labor in the International Labor Affairs Bureau in 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ian Fletcher<\/a>, author of Free\nTrade Doesn\u2019t Work, What Should Replace it and Why<\/em>, published in 2011. When\nI met him, he was a Research Fellow at the U.S. Business and Industry Council.\nAlan Tonelson asked him to meet me when he was in southern California in the\nsummer of 2010, not long after I started writing blog articles. When, he switched\nto becoming the Senior Economist of the Coalition for a Prosperous America in early 2011, he suggested I\njoin CPA, which I did.  I immediately\nread his book from which I learned everything I didn\u2019t know about the dangerous\neffects of our trade agreements. While he was at CPA, he and Michael Stumo (CPA\nCEO) edited the second edition of my book, Can American Manufacturing be\nSaved? \u2013 Why we should and how we can<\/em>, which was published in 2012 by CPA. Ian\nwas a featured speaker at several of the above- mentioned Manufacturing Summits.  He was educated at Columbia and the\nUniversity of Chicago, and he lives in San Francisco. He is currently on the advisory\nboard of the Coalition for a Prosperous America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rosemary\nGibson<\/a> is a \u201cnational authority on\nhealth care reform, Medicare, patient safety and overtreatment in medicine, as\nwell as \u201can award-winning author, inspirational speaker, and advisor to organizations\nthat advance the public\u2019s interest in health care.\u201d  She is the co-author of China RX,<\/em>\npublished in 2018, as well as Medicare Meltdown<\/em> (2013), Battle Over\nHealth Care<\/em> (2012), Treatment Trap<\/em> (2010), and Wall of Silence<\/em>\n(2003). I met Ms. Gibson when she was a featured speaker at the Made in America\ntrade show in October 2019. With the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic this\nyear, her book is getting the full attention it deserves as an expose of the\noffshoring to China of pharmaceuticals, PPE, and medical devices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harry Moser<\/a> founded the Reshoring Initiative in 2010 after 25 years as the North\nAmerican president of GF AgieCharmilles, now GF Machining Solutions. The\nmission of the Reshoring Initiative is to help bring manufacturing jobs back to\nthe U.S. using the Total Cost of Ownership Worksheet calculator he developed. Harry\nwas inducted into the Industry Week Manufacturing Hall of Fame 2010 and was\nnamed Quality Magazine\u2019s Quality Professional of the year for 2012\u2026won the Jan.\n2013 The Economist debate on outsourcing and offshoring, and received the\nManufacturing Leadership Council\u2019s Industry Advocacy Award in 2014. Harry and I\nconnected in August 2010 after he read my blog article about the importance of\nunderstanding Total Cost of Ownership. \nHe told me I wrote about what he just started and trained me how to use\nhis TCO worksheet, authorizing me to be a speaker on behalf of the Reshoring\nInitiative.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

James Sturber<\/a> is the\nauthor of What if Things Were Made in America Again: How Consumers Can\nRebuild the Middle Class by Buying Things Made in American Communities<\/em>,\npublished in 2017. Subsequently, he founded the Made in America again\norganization. After obtaining a law degree, he \u201cdevoted his career to public\npolicy, law and entrepreneurship.  He began his career as legislative\nassistant to a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, focusing on matters\nbefore the Committee on Energy and Commerce.  He subsequently practiced\nlegislative and administrative law in Washington, D.C. I met Jim at the\nCoalition for a Prosperous America trade conference in Washington, D. C. in\n2018. When I read his book, I discovered we had some up with much of the same\ndata in our research as my last book, Rebuild Manufacturing \u2013 the key to\nAmerican Prosperity <\/em>was also published in 2017. He currently co-chairs the\nBuy American committee for CPA of which I am a member.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alan\nUke<\/a> is a San Diego businessman, entrepreneur, and community leader,\nwho \u201cstarted his company, Underwater Kinetics, 41 years ago while attending the\nUniversity of California at San Diego. Uke holds over 40 patents and exports\nhis SCUBA diving, industrial lighting, and protective case products to over 60\ncountries.\u201d  He is the author of Buying\nAmerica Back, A Real-Deal Blueprint for Restoring American Prosperity<\/em>,\npublished in 2012. Uke documented that in 2011, the U.S. had a trade deficit\nwith 88 countries provides a chart showing the trade balance with every country\nwith which the U. S. trades. When we met for lunch, I found out that he was\nalso a member of the Coalition for a Prosperous America, so we had something\nelse in common. \u201cHe is also Founder Emeritus\/Founding Board President of the\nSan Diego Aircraft Carrier Museum which acquired the USS Midway in June 2004.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\nwould be remiss in not giving Honorable Mention to the many members of the U.S.-China\nEconomic and Security Review Commission<\/a> that was \u201ccreated\non October 30, 2000 by the Floyd D. Spence National Defense Authorization Act\nof 2001\u2026\u201d The primary purpose of this Commission is \u201cto monitor, investigate,\nand report to Congress on the national security implications of the bilateral\ntrade and economic relationship between the United States and the People\u2019s\nRepublic of China.\u201d Beginning in December 2002, the Commission submitted\n\u201cto Congress a report, in both unclassified and classified form,\nregarding the national security implications and impact of the bilateral trade\nand economic relationship between the United States and the People\u2019s Republic\nof China. The report shall include a full analysis, along with conclusions and\nrecommendations for legislative and administrative actions, if any, of the\nnational security implications for the United States of the trade and current\nbalances with the People\u2019s Republic of China in goods and services, financial\ntransactions, and technology transfers.\u201d  I read several of the reports as I was\nresearching my three books, and each year, China\u2019s unfair trading practices\nthreats to U.S. national security, and other violations of the principles and\nterms of China\u2019s membership in the World Trade Organization were well\ndocumented.  Yet, no action was taken by\nCongress under the administrations of President Bush or President Obama.    <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\nmet many other people at the Made in America trade show last October, some of\nwhom have recently joined the CPA Buy American committee. Some of these people could\nvery well be listed in a future article on my heroes as I get to know them and\ntheir work better.  I would encourage you\nto join our efforts to rebuild America\u2019s economy to create jobs and prosperity\nby becoming a member of CPA<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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