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‘Roots News: GCJ coverage of Ratzenberg/AAMC Townhall in Columbus


Lisa Renee does an exemplary job here on Glass City Jungle of covering the “Keep it Made in America” Town Hall last night. It was hosted by John Ratzenberger and sponsored by the Alliance for American Manufacturing (AAM).

Why this matters:

In closing Scott Paul [Executive Director of AAM] spoke stating that a study was done of the 20 some candidate debates held so far and of the 5 or 6 hundred questions that have been asked only three or four had to do with jobs or the trade issues addressed there. He continued, “we have an opportunity to show that there should be a contest between the republicans and the democrats on this, we need a vision…we need a president who realizes that manufacturing is important and how they would do it with trade policy, energy policy…”

And in no place more important than Ohio.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 12:57 am November 10th, 2007 in Blogging, Economy, Elections, Government, Ohio, Politics 

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2 Responses to “‘Roots News: GCJ coverage of Ratzenberg/AAMC Townhall in Columbus”

  1. 1 Lisa Renee on November 10th, 2007 12:41 pm

    Thanks Jill, it’s obvious I agree it’s an important topic to discuss/cover here in Ohio for me to have made the Columbus adventure drive there and back in one day.

    While I don’t believe it’s China that is solely to blame, this move to a “global economy” involves more than just China, we do really need to better address our US manufacturing base and what is to become of us. I do agree that a switch to a service based economy is not the solution and from an economic standpoint it will never provide the level of income and benefits that manufacturing has for our workforce.

    It will be interesting to see if any of the presidential candidates do address this important issue and what solutions they offer.

  2. 2 Jill Miller Zimon on November 15th, 2007 10:54 pm

    “I do agree that a switch to a service based economy is not the solution and from an economic standpoint it will never provide the level of income and benefits that manufacturing has for our workforce.”

    Is it too late? I just a heard a story, today or yesterday, about the growth of the SEIU.

    And during the debate this evening, so far, not a word on this topic – though I didn’t start listening until 9pm.

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