OUT: Outsourcing. IN: Insourcing.

By Scott Paul industrial union protectionist

January 11, 2012 - 4:50pm ET

" Insourcing. ...... Within the past year, major consulting firms
have published reports urging businesses to take a look at reshoring.

This week, the White House issued its own report. "

-----------------------------

"... American manufacturing jobs have grown over the past two years

the first time in more than 15 years.

nation gained 23,000 manufacturing jobs in December .... . "

------------------------------------

"to ensure that the significant trickle of reshored jobs

becomes a genuine trend:

Adopt insourcing tax incentives

extending a domestic manufacturing tax credit for clean energy and enlarging a deduction for US manufacturing activity.

improve the research and development tax credit by making it more generous for innovation that is actually commercialized in America.

adopt a federal tax incentive for companies that reshore high-paying jobs.

work to balance our trade account

continuing aggressive trade enforcement

stop China’s currency manipulation

Invest in infrastructure

.

Apply Buy America laws

preference for federal procurement

.

Invest in our workers

rebuild our vocational education system

------------------------------------------------------

factors beyond our control:

the value of the dollar
shipping costs consumer preferences

----------------------------------------
" high-wage nation Germany:

balanced trade with China
(we have an annual $272 billion deficit)

over 20 percent of its economy in manufacturing
(we have 11 percent). "
---------------------------------------------

"reshoring more than a slogan—a national policy."

shit frappe ????