From left: Donald Jackson, Ernest Tubbs, and Tavi Gargano, of Vocational Guidance Services, in Cleveland, with our made-in-China tools./Photo courtesy VGS.
ABC has a regular feature called "Made in America," which praises small businesses that make goods here. Advertisers have found that "Made in the USA" is a
powerful marketing device. I myself have a feel-good response to anything made in this country.
But what does it
really mean? How critical is it? Steve Jobs said point-blank, and to the president, about manufacturing Apple products in China, "Those jobs are gone and they aren't coming back." Full stop. (Anyone interested in business and innovation, btw, should read
Walter Isaacson's riveting biography of Jobs.)
New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman makes the point regularly that the way to energize the U.S. economy is not by creating legions of workers ...
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