by Dave Johnson | Jul 16, 2012 | Blog, Making it in America
The big brouhaha over when Mitt Romney left Bain Capital began when the Obama campaign accused Romney/Bain of offshoring jobs. Romney called Obama a "liar," saying he left Bain before the company did most of its offshoring. Then a Washington Post investigation found...
by Dave Johnson | Jul 16, 2012 | Blog
In a Sunday op-ed Arthur Laffer provides one of the funniest lines of the week, "Right-to-work laws provide individual workers with greater freedom to negotiate the terms of their employment." I almost spat out my coffee, thinking about what would happen to the worker...
by Dave Johnson | Jul 14, 2012 | Blog
The U.S. Olympic team's uniforms were made in China? This might be a WTF moment for the country, over the practice of sending our jobs, factories, industries and economy to China for the super-enrichment of a few. What next, a President made in China? Made In China...
by Dave Johnson | Jul 13, 2012 | Blog, Making it in America
Following is the talk I gave to the Take Back the American Dream conference panel, Making It In America: Reviving and Strengthening U.S. Manufacturing. You have undoubtedly heard the numbers, almost all of them bad. We have a trade deficit of more than $550 billion...
by Dave Johnson | Jul 11, 2012 | Blog
In the news, Republicans are running ads attacking Obama for "sending taxpayer dollars" out of the country in the stimulus… They depend on the news media to cover with as a "both sides do it" story, which it will, leaving voters confused and misinformed. The...
