
Associated Press
By Ronnie Polidoro
Rock Center
During his third State of the Union Address on Tuesday night, President Barack Obama laid out what he called “a blueprint” for moving America’s economy forward. An economy that is “built to last” and “built on American manufacturing.”

Associated Press
Bruce Cochrane standing in the top row, 2nd from left.
President Obama announced the creation of a Trade Enforcement Unit to investigate “unfair trade practices in countries like China,” where many American goods are manufactured. The President said, “We will not go back to an economy weakened by outsourcing.” As an incentive for manufacturers to bring back jobs to America, President Obama offered to lower corporate taxes and provide tax incentives to manufacturers.
One of the manufacturers bringing jobs back to America is Bruce Cochrane of Lincolnton Furniture in North Carolina. While President Obama delivered his State of the Union Address to a joint session of Congress, Cochrane watched from above, sitting in the gallery as one of the President’s guests. Rock Center has been following Cochrane as he brings his family business back to the U.S. and re-opens the family furniture plant. The family hired 130 American workers.
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Editor's Note: Harry Smith's full report, 'Made in America' airs Monday, Jan. 30 on NBC's Rock Center with Brian Williams











This current Call Centre bill And American jobs Act will be also not passed , same as previous outsourcing bill which was dead .Its an Election gimmick , with nexus of corporate s (wall street ) and government to fool people , and they r damn sure that this will too not pass very damn sure , infact Morgan Stanley and jp morgan chase (these both got large amount Bailout from fed (tax money)) is going to cut more jobs in US around most of them and they will will transferred to India , they want to transfer about 92 % more jobs outside , A mortgage company OCWEN FINANCIAL which has 90 % of jobs outsourced overseas ( India and some to Uruguay ) r buying more mortgage companies like LITTON from Goldman sachs and HomeEq servicing from Braclays and togethr with Altisource etc and transfer there jobs to overseas too ( mostly all of them ) same with IBM and other companies . so most of american companies will be employing overseas people in future ( might be 95 % of workforce). jobs of authors , contents writers ,editors ,copy writers etc etc will also be going to be outsourced so u too get ready to find other job in Mac Donald or wall-mart And all ur jobs r here , Below in this links
I wish it was that simple.
Chinese are neither stupid or push over, nor are companies.
Barring Chinese wage inflation and strong measures that will change dynamics so that it is competetive to manufacture here, we are in for patchy future
There are more and more Americans searching out American made products. I believe we Americans need to support the members of our extended American family who are
producing cars, appliances, furniture, clothing, shoes and other consumer goods
whenever we are considering a purchase. I am blogging everyday about great American made consumer products and all things “Made in America” on my blog, simply-american.net. Please stop buy and read what I am writing about. If you wish, enter your email on my blog and every time I post, an email with the post will be sent to your email address.
All the best,
John Briggs
I liked the hopefullness that the President outlined and the fact that he told congress that they need to work together like our troops have done for so long. I honestly know kindergarten students that work together better than congress. We need to take the ideology of each individual congressman and woman and throw them out the window and start over. Each politician only cares about personal gain instead of mutual gain for the country. While these fat cats with their thousand dollar suits and enormous ammounts of money sit in their plush office happy as can be while the American people that pay these people are failing to find work, keep up on their mortgage payments, pay for gas and try to put rising costs of food on the table. We need smaller Government and we need to stop lobbying and put a stop to offshore accounts that aren't being taxed. It is sad when our politicians even send their money offshore so they can get taxed less that's a shame and unamerican. Politicans job is to promote democracy and to give the power to the people of America not the power to the people of the world. The only politcian that doesn't get involved in the slanderous campaign is Ron Paul, because he is a true American that believes in America and not personal gain. We need a regulatory agency to see how efficient our congress works and the members that are under that standard need to be pushed out of office or get a cut in pay, our government throws money at these politicians so no wonder why they don't care because they are there for the payday. I say the more a politician does for America they more they deserve to be paid but the ones that do nothing deserve to work for minimum wage to see if they can get by like the many of people that are making minimum wage. Thank you Brian Williams from all of us in Montana
I worked for a very nice security manufacturing company in Oregon,in 2001 we were bought by G.E. ,and almost immediately the jobs started going to China ,Taiwan and Mexico. Different plants in the USA kept getting closed, and some times we would get some of the products. In 2009 we got notice that our plant was closing . It was hard to see one mfg. line at a time go,out of about 30 people in my area I was the last one to leave. In all between 300 -400 people lost there jobs. The funny part is my job went to Lincolnton,N.C. I am now working two part time jobs trying to make up the difference,without any beneifits.
Many, Many years ago when I was working for a very large corporation I can recall my office preparing for a visit from one of our local directors. The meeting was supposed to have been more motivational than the usual formal business. The director spoke for approximately two minutes and this is what he said: Good Morning, for the record, this "company" only owes you a paycheck! Nothing more...You should be happy that you have a job. There are so many unemployed individuals in America today, they would be very happy to sit where you are sitting now. Have a good day! That's the mentality of the individuals that are running/still running our large corporations today. We give loyal service for 20, 30, 40 years and we're lucky to have/had a job...we only deserve a paycheck!!! I've seen people let go right before their retirement was to go into affect and their jobs out sourced, eliminated or re-named, so that they could hire someone to do the same job for less pay. That's how America takes care of her own?? Wake Up America!!