Manufacturing needs the support of you,
For to firm up the health
Of our national wealth,
We must build some more cars and export a few."
President Barack Obama, in his State of the Union address on Tuesday night, predicted that manufacturing products for export would turn the US economy around. The President singled out companies such as General Motors and Master Lock as examples of this potential. Such rhetoric made Marketplace reporter Heidi Moore wonder whether we could build enough stuff to fill the financial hole left by crisis-riven banks. After all, the financial sector accounted for one third of US corporate profits before the bubble burst. Responded University of Maryland economics professor Peter Morici:
"We cannot succeed as an economy without a strong manufacturing base." While Wall Street has made a lot of money, Morici says, "It's nothing compared to the wealth generated by labs that come out of manufacturing."
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