U.S. To Become Manufacturing Powerhouse After Wall Street Crash?

As we stumble through repairing this mess we call a financial system, I find myself yearning for the days of big factories billowing smoke all over the countryside. Back when a factory whistle and the smell of something burning were as intertwined into America’s fiber as our Levis. Now, I am having this halcyon moment because the days of cheap jeans and burning cinders are over; replaced by $200 Euro-trash designer jeans and anything that got our hands dirty was shipped off to India or China. However, this isn’t going to be another rant about Wall Street or Washington because, quite frankly, I just don’t have it in me. This is more about me sticking my tongue out at the financial markets in a way that you would if you were 3. I send a raspberry to Wall Street to show my displeasure with their behavior and to make them aware that we are tired of all the spin doctoring and bullshit. Times up boys, in the words of Michael Corleone; you’re out Tom! That’s ri...