by Greg Owens, Co-founder and CEO, Sherrill Manufacturing/Liberty TabletopThere are few if any things that would be considered “pleasant” in a presidential political year but there is at least one thing that is positive. The process heightens awareness of issues that...
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A Manufacture Local Story™ by John Gardner As I meet immigrants I ask them why they came to America and the universal response is “opportunity”. I ask them to specify what “opportunity" America provides that other nations do not; the majority, who are...
CONDEMN STEALTH-SLAVERY
by John Gardner On Dec. 22, 2020 I sent a submission to the Oxford English Dictionary for a “A new word or sense”. That word is STEALTH-SLAVER and/or STEALTH-SLAVERY. Definition:Any individual, collective, corporation or country who surreptitiously benefits from the...
REMEMBER PEARL HARBOR; NO MORE WAR FOR OIL
by Michael Nickle Pearl Harbor Day is the one day per year that I am most consistent in posting to social media. I do it because there is so much to learn from this event that seems to be lost which bothers the Hell out of me.Why did the Japanese attack us? You can...
MANUFACTURING IS CREATING: WHERE ARE THE ACCOLADES?
by John Gardner Hollywood loves to congratulate itself with endless award ceremonies exalting their creative oblations to the gods of culture. Silicon Valley is fawned over by the media and the idea of unicorns is now sullied by association not with the magical...
Wake-Up America
by Brian Imbler Turn the clock back to 1990 when the Communist regimes in Europe collapsed and there was an apparent end to the decades long totalitarian big government, anti-God experiment. To those living at that time, did you ever imagine that a...
The Manufacturing Industry Led with Desegregation
by John Gardner American immigration policies in the late 1800’s such as the Immigration Act of 1882 and the Alien Contract Labor law prohibited certain laborers from coming to America, specifically blocking the entry of “idiots, lunatics, convicts, and...
Fix the Police? Dump the Police Unions and Political Lackeys
by Thomas Franklin Being a former law enforcement officer, I had witnessed many years of my colleagues perform admirably in life-threatening situations, but were subsequently eviscerated in the mainstream media. The media tends to portray the predators as victims,...
The Worst Kept Secret in Corporate America
by Anonymous Patriot The famed author Andrew Smith once said, “People fear what they don’t understand and they hate what they can’t conquer.” I see and face fear every day in the workplace. No, I do not work in a coal mine. I am not a police officer or a...
The Deception of Offshore Sourcing Part 2
by Brian Imbler, CEO The Sales Bridge What are the hidden costs of offshore sourcing? 1) The Unquantifiable cost of stolen intellectual property and product replication(China's IP theft greatest transfer of wealth in history) 2) Cost of dealing with...
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