Society Background and Philosophy

Society Background and Philosophy

From the Founder

of the Society for American Industry

I am an inventor of affordable building systems who has designed and fabricated custom machines for short run manufacturing of components for houses, office interiors and light construction. This expansion of career into technology came out of my experience as a commercial contractor and homebuilder over many years in a very "low-tech" industry.

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My involvement in this project to staunch the hemorrhage of American jobs and money out of the United States grew out of several factors. For years I had been aware of the promotion and transition of the American economy away from industrial production and into the “information age”. This had always troubled me. All my adult life I believed a country that did not manufacture and market products did not have much going for it. I knew that, from a reality standpoint, most of the growth, broad-based prosperity, progress and power of the United States came from its huge manufacturing base.

Society Background and Philosophy

As the trend for the foreign displacement of American-made products accelerated, factories closed. Workers were downsized and outsourced down and out. Trade surpluses accelerated into trade deficits almost geometrically. It became apparent that the primary beneficiaries of the “information age” are: (1) Microsoft Corp.; (2) importers of various electronic toys; (3) financial institutions that create funny money out of thin air and collect real interest, fees and penalties on it and (4) investment bankers who flog the IPOs of companies that produce no tangible, useful products that real people need to live. Let’s not overlook the accountants and attorneys needed to pick the bones of bankrupt manufacturers and suppliers.

If the United States industrial sector is weak, we have very little national security.

The best (if not the only) way to improve the American economy and our personal economies is to work together and deliber­ately stimulate the powers of creativity, ingenuity and innova­tion that are so underutilized in this great country. We need to create functional products that we can manufacture in American factories with American workers and sell to Americans and people in other countries.

Categories that come to mind are energy saving devices, materials and systems; basic no-frills computers; energy-efficient no-frills cars and trucks; and low cost, high quality building systems. The United States has abundant raw materials and (still has) the ability to create virtually any type of machine or component. We have enough creativity and brainpower. All we need is will power, focus and teamwork. 

Society Background and Philosophy  

We must create a grass roots machine of the most produc­tive elements of our society to revitalize and re-industrial­ize America.  United political action is urgently required. We need to organize enough citizen power to enable us to put government in its rightful position as servant. We need to compel government to do what is right and what is beneficial for the greatest number of United States citizens. We need government in the General Interest rather than gov­ernment for the Special Interests.

James D. Kirk, Jr. , President 

Society for American Industry 

Society Background and Philosophy

America CAN and MUST be “re-moralized, re-humanized and re-industrialized”. If we work together we can get the job done.

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