Tim Ryan announces economic plan to boost manufacturing

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Democratic presidential hopeful Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio) on Saturday announced an economic plan aimed at strengthening the middle class. The plan aims to give a boost to the manufacturing sector, double union membership and expand apprenticeship programs, in an effort to rebuild "our forgotten cities."

Ryan also called to raise the minimum wage to $15, allow public sector employees the abiliity to collectively bargain and proposes an increase infrastructure funding.

The Ohio congressman, whose longshot campaign has largely focused on manufacturing jobs and issues, said he would establish a U.S. Chief Manufacturing Officer who would set production goals and advocate for manufacturing workers.

"When I am President I will never forget that workers come first, and that our economic policy cannot put corporations before the hardworking men and women of our country," Ryan said in a post describing the plan.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/455011-2020-dem-tim-ryan-puts-forth-industrial-economic-plan

[MaryMagdaline]

1. Good plan. Like it

[Demsrule86]

2. I like Tim Ryan a great deal.

[Ohiogal]

3. He is my Congressman

And he speaks the TRUTH. He gets it.

[bucolic_frolic]

4. Small factories in cities were our mainstay

Didn't have to be fancy products. Brooms to rugs, motors to cleaning supplies.

How about flyswatters. My plastic Chinese flyswatters last one season, or one swat.

Yet I have a 1976 plastic one with a plastic handle that will not quit, probably made stateside.

Someone's making money on these disposables, and they're no good for the environment. Why can't we make a durable, Made in U.S.A. flyswatter?

[Wellstone ruled]

5. Apprentiships

are key to the revitalization of our manufacturing sector. First,the Tax Code needs a major overhaul ,when you can make more profit by firing your workers and get a massive tax break,and then open a shop off shore and get another tax break,that has to go down the road real damn quick.

Our Manufacturing used to be made up of small shops making specialty parts for the mega assemblers. Shops that I did business with in the late eighties,nineties and early 2000's,well,they are all gone to either Mexico or China. Hundreds of Machinist's and Machine Operators gone never to return. Design and Process Engineers gone never to return,most of these folks are driving Uber or Taxi's . Some were lucky to catch on with a Metal Casting Company and a plastic molding company and most are earning about half of what they did before.

Ryan is on the right track,btw,we did not have this message in 2016,and it did make a difference.