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The
problem with common sense is that it's not as common
as it used to be. -
Nido R. Qubein President
High Point University
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Without wise leadership, a nation falls.
- Proverbs 11:14
For years I've listened and believed what our government and
business leaders have said. I was to busy raising a
family and growing a business to question their decisions
anyway.
Still
there was something inside me that wondered if everything I
was hearing made sense. I was raised by parents and
grandparents who believed in hard work, saving, education,
family and being self sufficient. They went to church and
tried to follow what they heard each Sunday. They valued
family and friends, believed in hard work, and saving
something from what they earned.
They
believed that they were responsible for their success and
happiness and took steps themselves to better their life.
I'm wondering what America would look like if our leaders
would have based their decisions on the values that my
grandparents and parents lived their lives by.
This website is a discussion of those ideas. I invite you to
join me in a discussion of those ideas. I realize that there
will be people with opposite views and I want to encourage
you to share your opinions also. Hopefully what we can
learn from each other will help make us wiser.
May we Bring Back Common Sense to America.
Earn all you can, save all you can, give all you can
- John Wesley
May I be a pencil in God's hand
- Mother Teresa
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WHY U.S.
MANUFACTURERS NEED TO FIND COMMON GROUND
Protectionists may have had it right when they
decried the loss of manufacturing jobs in the
U.S. After decades of outsourcing factory work
to low-wage countries, the nation has shed not
only millions of low-skill jobs; it no longer
can make many of the high-value goods that
matter in the 21 century. The not-made-in-the-U.S.
list ranges from light-emitting diodes,
flat-panel displays.
and electric-car batteries to the carbon-fiber
components of Boeing's 787 Dreamliner and
Amazon.com's Kindle.
More alarming, the U.S. is losing its ability to
create big-impact products as research and
development is increasingly transferred to
foreign lands that have become manufacturing
leaders in, say, computers or telecom gear.
Except for Apple's products, for instance, every
U.S. brand of notebooks is now designed in Asia.
What to do? Government and private industry must
work together to rebuild what can be called the
nation's industrial commons. This is akin to the
grazing land that farmers shared
for their herds. Industrial commons would
include R&D that could be housed in universities
or consortiums, often centered in a particular
city or region to make sharing easier. Skills
would be retained while innovations would
recharge the
U.S. economy. (Harvard Business Review
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