American Jobs Alliance

Guests: Ralph Gomory, Melinda O'Keefe

Ralph Gomory former head of science and research for IBM and author of Global trade and Conflicting National Interests discusses the fallacies of so-called "free trade" as practiced today, why R&D is intrinsically tied to manufacturing, how corporations have traditionally based their decisions on more than the maximization of profits, why "education" is not a panacea for the problems facing working Americans, and why we need new policies to better align the goals of US corporations with the needs of the American people.  Dr. Gomory is a Research Professor at New York University Stern School of Business.

http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~rgomory/

Melinda O'Keefe, founder and president of Melindesign talks about her jewelry assembly business and why her customers prefer not to use overseas labor.

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As voters go to the polls for Super Tuesday, American Jobs Alliance looks at what the candidates arent talking about when they talk about jobs.  Independent candidate for U.S. Congress in Colorado Dave Anderson and Republican and Independent candidate for President Buddy Roemer talk about their campaigns and how our failed trade policies are costing jobs and threatening our future.

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Greg Autry, co-author of Death By China, discusses his tour of the Foxconn factories in China that manufacture Apple products, and how the Chinese Communist Party has targeted critical industries and is using a full battery of economic weapons to impel them to abandon the United States and locate in China.

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The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is being negotiated in secret by the Obama Administration with nations on the Pacific Rim. It is the latest so-called free trade agreement, like Nafta, that undermines democracy and protects multinational corporations from regulation.  We will hear a teach-in on the TPP that was presented in Washington Square Park on January 29 as part of Occupy Wall Street.  Speakers explain how the TPP undermines food security, local agriculture, access to affordable drugs, and the ability for sovereign nations to regulate banks and multinational coroporations.

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Ralph Gomory former head of science and research for IBM and author of Global trade and Conflicting National Interests discusses the fallacies of so-called "free trade" as practiced today, why R&D is intrinsically tied to manufacturing, how corporations have traditionally based their decisions on more than the maximization of profits, why "education" is not a panacea for the problems facing working Americans, and why we need new policies to better align the goals of US corporations with the needs of the American people.  Dr. Gomory is a Research Professor at New York University Stern School of Business.

http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~rgomory/

Melinda O'Keefe, founder and president of Melindesign talks about her jewelry assembly business and why her customers prefer not to use overseas labor.

http://melindesign.com/ http://www.facebook.com/pages/Melindesign/251637465163?sk=info

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Nancy Gold of Tough Traveler LTD, one of the few remaining US manufacturers of luggage, backpacks and baby carriers, a tells us how Washington makes the trade deficit look smaller than it really is and lets importers shortchange the Treasury on duties they owe.  It's called the "First Sale" rule and it's costing us jobs and tax revenues.

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John R. MacArthur, publisher of Harper's Magazine and author of The Selling of Free Trade discusses how both political parties have made common cause with powerful multinational corporate interests to sell out American men and women who workl for a living.

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Anders Lewendal, the home builder responsible for the first documented home ever built entirely from products sourced and/or manufactured in the US. The home will use less than half the energy of average new homes its size, and the home will cost about the same as other homes of similar size and quality. Anders is founder of The 5% Club, asking every consumers and businesses to reallocate just 5% of their spending from foreign made products to those made in the US.

A 5% shift just in the residential building industry would add $14 billion to the US economy every year -- enough to directly employ the entire population of Providence, Rhode Island, at about $40,000 a year.

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Roelif Loveland, President of Maze Nails, the fifth generation in his family owned business, one of the few remaining makers of nails in the USA.  He talks about why his company sources and manufactures 100% in the USA and the nature of the poffshore competition his industry faces. Maze Nails were used in the All Americna Home built by Anders Lewendal.

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Guest: Clyde Prestowitz

Clyde Prestowitz is founder and President of the Economic Strategy Institute. Mr. Prestowitz is an outspoken critic of U.S. trade policies toward Japan, China, and Korea.

Mr. Prestowitz served as counselor to the Secretary of Commerce in the Reagan Administration. There, he led many U.S. trade and investment negotiations with Japan, China, Latin America, and Europe. Before joining the Commerce Department, he was a senior businessman in the United States, Europe, Japan, and throughout Asia and Latin America. He has served as vice chairman of the President's Committee on Trade and Investment in the Pacific and sits on the Intel Policy Advisory Board and the U.S. Export-Import Bank Advisory Board.

Clyde Prestowitz regularly writes for leading publications, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, Fortune, and Foreign Affairs. He is the author of several books on international trade and business strategy includingRogue Nation, and Three Billion New Capitalists. His latest book, The Betrayal of American Prosperity: Free Market Delusions, America's Decline, and How We Must Compete in the Post-Dollar Era, addresses how we can restore our economic leadership and excellence.

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