We Have To Go Up

The post-World War II days are over. Where the US once had enormous manufacturing capacity that we could turn on in months, we are now a part of the largest distribution economy in the world.

We no longer manufacture; we have things manufactured off-shore and brought into our country. “Globalization is changing the world in ways that we may not yet fully comprehend.

For the United States, the enactment of new free trade agreements, the downsizing of our manufacturing base, and consumer demand for inexpensive products are all affecting both jobs and the environment, especially in those regions with ports and transportation corridors designed to distribute imported goods… the United States “is becoming nothing more than a distribution economy, importing, moving and selling consumer goods”