Manufacturing has historically been a primary source for middle-class jobs characterized by decent wages and benefits, especially for workers without a college degree (still over 70% of the workforce according to the Economic Policy Institute).

Every manufacturing job supports almost three other jobs in the economy. Manufacturing creates jobs for all skill levels of workers. Most jobs, directly or indirectly, depend on manufacturing — and reviving the sector could provide tens of millions of new jobs, eradicating this Great Recession.

As we decrease the number of manufacturing jobs we increase the ease of access to social insurance. This ease of access to financial assistance eliminates the motivation for a person to accept work and replaces it with the non-urgent desire to find an employment opportunity that meets the applicant’s requirements. We pay people to be unemployed.

According to Baltimore Employers Association, metro area employers offering medium-skilled employment have significant difficulty in finding adults, (high school grads and non-grads) who possess the self discipline and desire required to hold down a steady job.

There is not one finite cause to outsourcing of our manufacturing, but instead there is an accumulation of problems which feed upon each other. There is not one finite solution, rather there is a number of remedies which we must apply to our way of life in order to bring about change.

For these reasons we have devised a plan which requires efforts on the local level, the state level and the national level. Subsidizing any part of our economy, more often than not, ends up in a disaster.

Subsidizing mortgages has fueled our housing markets and has now collapsed. Health Care Premiums are just anther way to redistribute cost and has become a financial albatross for individuals, businesses and government. Subsidizing individual income with easy access social insurance dollars, paying people to be unemployed reduces the need to find a job.

We have divided our concerns into three sections:

1.         The local level address changes we need to make in our education systems to better prepare our young people for the work force. These changes are a redistribution of effort, not an increase of expenditures.

2.         Insurance programs are managed on a state level. This section discusses the different social insurances managed by our state government and the effect these programs have on business and the creation of jobs. In addition, this section discusses remedies that will reduce the lingering indulgence of users.

3.         What can Washington do? It is a prerequisite that we reign in our cost of health care. It appears that any program that subsidizes any person or industry is exploited and abused. It also appears that government involvement leads to bureaucracy, inefficiency and socialization. However, government can initiate a program (such as Cash for Clunkers) and then withdraw it’s involvement.