Please consider buying American Products from American Owned Companies. 

Are you OK with America's $2 BILLION per DAY trade deficit? Every foreign product purchased contributes to it. We are selling off America piece-by-piece and jeopardizing our future. Read more in the Main Discussion, Top Deficit Countries and FAQ #1 pages.

What is American?

What's "American" can be debated, but a product is truly American if the following 3 components are true. See FAQ #2 for more discussion and examples.

1. American Owned Company
   • If it's American owned, then the profits come home.
   • If it's American owned, most often the majority of highly skilled labor is American (Management, Design and Engineering). See FAQ #2 for examples.
   • If it's American owned, then Americans have control and the decision making authority. See the Main Discussion for more.
2. Designed and Engineered in America
   • Employment of Highly Skilled Labor
3. Assembled in America
   • Employment of Low Skilled Labor

Remember, when your neighbor's job goes overseas:

1. They're no longer earning a wage to purchase your product or service.
2. They're no longer contributing to the U.S. tax base.
3. They're no longer developing skills to keep our industry and country strong.

What needs to be done?

• AMERICAN CONSUMER (INCL. BUSINESS): Consider American products first for your purchases.

• AMERICAN WORKERS: We need to be competitive with the worldwide workforce for quality, productivity and creativity. Our wages may be forced to be competitive over time. See FAQ #5 for more.

• AMERICAN UNIONS AND COMPANIES:  Need to implement environments which encourage and enable workers to be competitive worldwide.

• AMERICAN GOVERNMENT:
  1. FREE TRADE: Replace Free Trade with FAIR TRADE! See FAQ #3 for more.
  2. TAX STRUCTURE:
     • Include tax rebates for U.S. companies when exporting. (All or most other countries have this in place to encourage exporting goods)
     • Close the tax benefit loophole that companies get when outsourcing jobs.
  3. HEALTH CARE: U.S. government needs to remove the health care cost burden on U.S. companies which our foreign competitors do not have. Ford and GM site $1200 to $1500 of each vehicle sold go toward health care costs.
  4. EDUCATION: Ensure world class education system from kindergarten through college to provide a competitive workforce.
  5. CIVIL JUSTICE REFORM: Contain an out of control legal system fueled by self interested lawyers. See Links page for more.

REMARKS BY MARK FIELDS PRESIDENT OF THE AMERICAS, FORD MOTOR COMPANY U.S. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE - JUNE 14, 2006

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