and what comes to mind? Businesses in every country designing the products that they have specialized in manufacturing for several years using local materials and employing local citizens while contributing to the cultural institutions in their areas.
As the Detroit (once known as the "Big Three") automakers again appear before Congress to ask for additional financial help from the Federal Government we are reminded that Chevy and Ford build small cars in Europe that are much different than the ones that are for sale in the United States and that Chrysler is best known for it's Dodge Ram pickup trucks and Jeep Sport Utility Vehicles that are not on the high-mileage lists.
The US Congress has been saying that the Us automakers will have to agree to build more small high-mileage cars, but Americans are generally larger than the Asian people that buy the small cars produced for their home markets. Will Americans  want to drive the new American small cars? Click:
http://www.communati.com/steve-lee/think-american-car
As Robert Rubin joins the Obama administration as Chief Economic Advisor we have to remember that he was Secretary of the Treasury during Bill Clinton's Presidency, the first term of which brought Americans the "benefits" of the North American Free Trade agreement and that he is on the Board of Directors of Citi Bank (of recent "bailouts" in the news.)
The new administration in Washington D.C. is going stimulate the US economy by supporting renewable fuels and Electric Cars, Click:
http://www.communati.com/steve-lee/think-sunshine
Originally the "Globalization" envisioned by the academics at Harvard University was to allow the distribution of manufacturing around the world to alleviate the poverty of the "preindustrial nations." The Republicans seized upon the "Free Trade" idea as a way to stop the spread of labor unions; now that they have succeded  (organized labor makes up only 7% of American industrial workers) they are seeking to destroy the rest of the labor unions even if it means allowing the majority of manufactured products sold in the United States to be made in China and Mexico.
Is it possible that the "American Dream" is still attainable in the United States?
http://www.communati.com/steve-lee/think-american-dream
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