Rowe: America still makes things
Host Mike Howe discusses how America has increased output, not decreased, over the last several years on ‘How America Works.’
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I've been working in manufacturing since 1997. The first of my manufacturing jobs was fabricating pickling tanks for the steel industry out of polypropylene. Now I work making the equipment used to separate red cells from plasma.
So how can we be an advocate for manufacturing with the current anti-capitalist anti-manufacturing administration?
Worked in a weaving mill for 17yrs before NAFTA took me out. I actually enjoyed it.
I saw a Video on KZhead a few years ago where a Home Construction boss building serious numbers of houses a year in the mid-West decided to test just how much 'Made in America' Construction materials and fittings he could buy in a reasonable supply distance from his area of activity and the cost of such. Most of what he currently used was available within a short radius of his location and prices while slightly higher than the imported stuff were still affordable when other factors were figured into the equation.
Can you please give a link to the video?
@@garypaul1033 Man I would if I could but it was a few years ago and I can't even remember the context so as to point you in a direction to search. Perhaps Mike Rowe with his extensive contacts over many years may be someone to ask? Sorry.
Is there anywhere online we can watch the rest of this? I live too far out in the boonies for cable and can't afford satellite!
This just ends abruptly! I want part 2
These are things we want to know about. Thanks for the good reporting!
Mike, your the best. My Grandpa, Walter Emil Schoenegge, was a mechanic at a sock factory in St. JOE MI. back in the 20s
My Grandpa worked at a shirt factory in his little town in Indiana until he had to retire in the 1950s because of cancer. He always worked hard. I wish I had one of those shirts.
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I love him.. I'd vote for you Mike
Mike Rowe should team up with John Ratzenburger he did a wonderful series called Made in America on the travel channel not to long ago.
Rowe is an American hero American business is business if we ever lose that we’re done
Try punctuation.
I work in a fabrication shop, we make asphalt equipment and mining equipment. All huge stuff. Blue collar is the only way.
Thanks Mike for bringing some common sense practical facts back to television.
Love these guys!
Thank you for bringing this information to us!
While America still makes things, The percent of the economy attributed to manufacturing has gone way down. Indiana has the highest percent of its economy in manufacturing compared to other states. I believe its around 25 to 30% of its economy. That’s too bad because creating something like a water pump that costs $500 from a five dollar piece of metal is where wealth is created. When China is manufacturing something for us, guess who gets to keep the wealth? Oh sure Amazon can make billions from their 2% of the transactional profit but America loses everything else.
loses
Thanks
But the reality is people keep wanting the cheaper cost item
You better not tell the government or they will close it down through taxation .
Love you Mike you're a National Treasure
Love Mike Rowe.....
Mike Rowe for POTUS!
That's awesome.
How much will you work when your 401k loses 80% of the value you have earned in the last few decades. How about when dollars become soup line coupons?
If this does not become a crypto spammer thread I will be amazed.
America 🇺🇸
Y'all need to make a How America Works Playlist so I don't have to sort through every video you have to find them
Not good enough we need our companies back here in U.S.A. all these people need jobs.
But people don't want to pay for it . If they did well they would be there.
We make everything we need. We do it everyday. Some of us are still outsourcing for important parts and small technical components, that's about it.
Medicine?!?!
@@justsaying1284 yes, we make medicine too.
@@jettison8390 no we don't we make aspirin and minor meds All antibiotics come from over seas not to mention a lot more.. NAFTA wasn't for nothing. Next time you shop why does everything have a " made in china sticker in it. Give me a break this is not an arguing point keep.doing Bidens work for him.
@@justsaying1284 and seeing as how we don't actually want antibiotics, because they weaken our immune system, i stand by my comment. We don't need their garbage.
Make it out of components manufactured in China
There are USA made lawn mower machine, organic products, carpets, faucets, etc. in my Canadian home...lol 😘
Lessons to be learned: never mix colors.
WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME ANY AMERICAN HAS SEEN A LABEL THAT SAYS MADE WITH PRIDE IN AMERICA ???
Usually when the rare item DOES say "Made in the USA" it's actually made by IMPORTED labor, not by Americans.
I just bought bird feeders that said "MADE IN THE USA" about a month ago. Gave me a thrill to see that.
He means innovative make things not same old same old
Quick reminder. Report all spammers in the comments. THANKS.
The Virtuous Cycle of American Industry and natural inflation was interrupted by the exportation of jobs and the importation of foreign goods. There has always been import and export but often it was only useful for products that could not be made domestically or for specialized spices etc that cannot be produced nationally. Forcing this to occur on an ever increasing schedule will eventually cause the cycle to break entirely and the economy of the working class to collapse. The artificial worker shortage brought on by wasteful gov’t entitlement programs is creating a false cycle which will exacerbate the problem sevenfold and expand the problem of correction. Since no one in interested in fixing this problem only local innovation can save local economies.
This uses the same flawed logic as the military apologists I'm government that concluded that the percentage of people killed in wars had gone down, and used that to sell the idea that they were reducing warfare, when in fact the numbers of humans killed had increased. In reality, The US has gone from having an economy that's was based to 80% on goods, and only 20% services. Today it's only 30% production and 70% services, and still shifting towards less and less production.
Why is FOX calling you Mike Howe?
Where are the apprentices?
But does America make enough things...
We need to get back to Chip Manufacturing. We Have some we need lots more. The future awaits us.
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These businesses are hanging by a thread
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Ok. I’ll consider stafford springs now. Did not like nj.
Remember NAFTA.
He's looking for a phone? I want to see that phone, like which century it's from.
Mike row leave elon musk alone
That's how I felt..I felt China made everything
Thought. I thought...
And who exactly are you trying to convince ???????
Go after the shooters and leave the guns alone. If you take my guns I will come back with something more destructive.
Guns & bombs
How many gun manufacture's did CT chase out of the state?
Working hard 😅😅😅😅😁😁😁, please most Americans can't even afford a home or raise a family on a single income.
What? No way Mike, we all make tweets every day……
"America still makes things" . One of them isn't sense !
Well I like Mike but let's be straight forward, how can you say we make more in America and turn around and say we only have 4 mills left out of 30,000
TOILET FLOAT!
I only bring books that I have not read. Majority of them. And a lot of other things. Let's work *together....*
NAFTA! That giant sucking sound. Do you hear it?
America makes ridiculousness every second.
Although I admire your sentiment, you are way off the mark. Being a small scale manufacturer of equipment for small farms, we are only able to source 22% of our parts and materials from domestic sources that actually manufacture and not relabel import parts as their own. That's just reality.
My solution would be to keep upping the tariffs on all non-discretionary goods manufactured in China. I’d use any time they mentioned Taiwan being part of China as the trigger point for every 5% increase in tariffs. Will what you manufacture go up in price? Absolutely! But it will provide good value and good jobs to American workers who want to work. You wanna let China make discretionary parts and goods? I’m fine with that. But not essential goods.
@@adviceman66 Of course what you propose is commonly done in varying measure but then you have the CCP that will counter those measures by subsidizing their manufacturers, therefore negating tarrifs. It's a crazy circle. My intent when I began sourcing parts and setting up the machining was that domestic suppliers providing domestic parts, often times do not want to be bothered with small quantities. By small, I mean 10-50k worth of a single part such as small electric motors. For instance, any vehicle made in North America have "zero" windshield wiper or fan blower motors that are not from China, zero! I have had many contacts with American companies that provide them to industry. All of their manufacturing is based in China. They are simply not interested in working with small outfits. What I can do is call a myriad of suppliers in China and speak to a rep, send my designs and get my motors with no issues. Let alone the price! US companies have been horrendous to deal with on every level. I am embarrassed for the state of our industries. Even "if" I could source domestically, I could not reach a reasonable price point, not even close. All of the above commentary is about one of nearly 200 parts we require. One good thing the US has is plastic, we have lots of plastic. Cheers!
You do have space there for another five bedrooms :)
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1st comment on your comment.
BUY CRUDE OIL LABOUR COST IS RISING IN MINING.....
Ya. It makes me crazy with all this leftist bs.
The u.s. makes a lot of trouble!! And doesn't take care of its homeless! The u.s. is a headache!
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Thank Republicans for sending jobs to China
The whole country was involved in exporting jobs to China
@@rhynosouris710 I can't argue with you on that
I think it was a bipartisan effort.
Yeah you're full of it. Im routinely looking for things I can no longer find here because its made in china. And its not just one thing, its a lot of things.
If you were Canadian... maybe??
Who cares
I like you a lot but you're not from New York.