A national industrial policy is far more realistic and would give us the same tools other nations have.

The very same parisitic bunch that has sucked the life out of our nation is not going to revitalize our economy. The only way this economy is going to ignite is if government regulation is scaled back, with cuts being made of 30% to all government workers pay and no worker recieving over $90,000 a year regardless of their title, cut all GW benefits by 50%, remove all GW perks, and reduce all pensions to no more than $50,000 a year.

The people that write for a living like to say that government needs to be cut, but rarely point to the actual largest cost in government is the people that inhabit the bureaucracies of the RAGWUS.

The Republican party is dead in California for now, but the states policies will have the people looking for an alternative to the demonrats in the future, as then state dies from their own socialist policies. 🙂

For those who don’t know what a maquiladora is: After slicing through all of the numerous definitions that cloud this question, the answer is, simply, that a maquiladora is a Mexican Corporation which operates under a maquila program approved for it by the Mexican Secretariat of Commerce and Industrial Development (SECOFI).

A maquila program entitles the company, first, to foreign investment participation in the capital — and in management — of up to 100% without need of any special authorization; second, it entitles the company to special customs treatment, allowing duty free temporary import of machinery, equipment, parts and materials, and administrative equipment such as computers, and communications devices, subject only to posting a bond guaranteeing that such goods will not remain in Mexico permanently.

Ordinarily, all of a maquiladora’s products are exported, either directly, or indirectly, through sale to another maquiladora or exporter. The type of production may be the simple assembly of temporarily imported parts; the manufacture from start to finish of a product using materials from various countries, including Mexico; or any conceivable combination of the various phases involved in manufacturing, or even non-industrial operations, such as data-processing, packaging, and sorting coupons.

A couple of basic questions:
1. Do you really think the feds could even develop such a program effectively?
2. Do you think the current fed would all any industry to develop products without their meddling in it?
3. Are you will to forego EPA and other standards?

The current administration has subsidized industries and has failed miserably. Let the market drive investment not the government. The Constitution should be reviewed before proposing this type of progam.

The media is the only one saying repubs are dead. This is just out right hog wash. Now if you mean in CA, you may be right but not for the rest of the US. The election was NOT won by a landslide, infact it was a very narrow margin. The media is in bed with the dems and deliberately goes out of its way to spread crap like this.

Or, we could develop a national industrial policy like each of the nations you mention has, provide national level subsidies for the favored industries, eliminate the unfocused “enterprise zones” and maquiladora favoring import tax regulations, and impose protectionist tariffs on all foreign products.