Jan MacKay: The Candidate of Principle
Smaller Government, Lower Taxes, More Freedom

North Carolina can be a leader in bringing back the pride in making products that say:

MADE IN THE U.S.A.

November 3, 2008, at approximately 6:15pm, please watch Jan MacKay on Citizens Choice on cable channel 24, as she says we have plenty of lawyers, real estate developers and bankers in the NC Legislature, and no manufacturing experts, and not many IT professionals. Jan MacKay is a manufacturing expert and IT professional who opposes corporate incentive packages, yet we know there will be proposals for more corporate giveaways of your tax dollars in the next two years. Jan makes the point that it would be beneficial to have a manufacturing expert in the state legislature to evaluate such industrial proposals and find the flaws in them. Large corporations have been moving in, taking millions of dollars in corporate incentives, and moving out! Yes, it is good to have legislators who are lawyers, real estate developers, and bankers evaluate the proposals - but there are already plenty of them in the NCGA! Let’s have a legislator with excellent manufacturing expertise, Jan MacKay, review any such proposals and determine their likely effect on the overall industrial capability of North Carolina and how it relates to the objective or more, and better paying, jobs and the overall NC economy.

The current North Carolina legislature, of 50 Senators, and 120 House members, with only one or two exceptions, has very little understanding of manufacturing, and its’ importance to our economy.

IF YOU WANT TO HAVE MANUFACTURING JOBS IN NC IN THE FUTURE,

VOTE FOR SOMEONE WHO IS AN EXPERT IN MANUFACTURING.

VOTE JAN MacKAY for NC Senator!

If you want the state to build apartment complexes or do some stock market speculation, consider one of the other candidates.

However, if you think North Carolina would benefit from manufacturing jobs,
Jan MacKay is the best choice for NC Senate candidate!

Lee Iacocca says: “People, look around. This country has some serious issues. Security. The economy. Global warming. Healthcare. Energy. Iraq. In most of these cases, the so-called leaders charged with confronting these problems are only compounding them with their lack of accountability and often questionable motives. Instead of looking for real solutions, they seem to be looking out for number one. It's not just elected leaders like George W. Bush and Dick Cheney either. It's many of the executives who occupy the top rungs of this country's corporate ladder. Your Kenneth Lays and Jeffrey Skillings and Dennis Kozlowskis - a few guys who took Michael Douglas' line in the movie Wall Street a little too seriously. "Greed is good," he said. These days, it seems more of our leaders believe that than ever before.” ... more of what Lee Iacocca has to say.

Jan MacKay will use her manufacturing expertise and position as NC state senator to establish a long-term vision for manufacturing jobs in North Carolina that pay more than a living wage, and help families to create a financially secure future. Her extensive manufacturing knowledge will allow Jan to lead the way in helping the other legislators understand their roles in making that vision real.

America has been failing economically for many reasons, including government spending on the wrong things, and for the wrong reasons. As a North Carolina state senator, Jan MacKay will not have much more influence than anyone else over national politics such as the war in Iraq (which she opposed vocally and publicly since prior to the beginning), and political corruption at the national level. The U.S. will need many years to rebuild diplomatic relations after the words “American” and “Patriot” has been so terribly tarnished by the Bush administration. Congress did little to intervene and has not provided sufficient oversight to keep George W. Bush and Dick Cheney and the oil and coal baron administration under control. As a result, the Executive Branch AND Congress is out of control.
Our debt as of June 2007 is worst in the world at $12,250,000,000,
and our account balance is worst in the world, at $ -738,600,000,000,
with a trade imbalance (imports greater than exports) of about $800,000,000,000
The National Debt has increased an average of $1.74 billion per day since September 28, 2007!

One of the prime reasons for a failing American economy is the loss of hundreds of thousands of manufacturing jobs, which are often replaced by lower paying retail or service industry jobs. One of the prevalent reasons for a failing North Carolina economy is the loss of textile manufacturing jobs, often replaced by long-term unemployment. The industrial capacity for manufacturing products disappeared with the shipping of industrial machinery overseas and south of the border, in order to take advantage of cheap labor. In some cases, CEO’s even had the nerve to send skilled labor overseas to teach unskilled labor how to operate the machinery, and in some states there were relaxed tariffs so that companies would not have to pay tariffs on machinery sent to China. These deals often created windfall profits for some corporate boards of directors, before they sold all their stocks, sending Wall Street into a downward spiral, and sending American workers to the unemployment lines. Then, they shut off the lights, leaving a loyal workforce in the dark of their abandoned factories. These factories provided jobs that people depended on, but many are now closed or converted to condos.

Jan MacKay is a manufacturing expert, counting Henry Ford among her heroes. She has studied industry takeover strategies which have full national industrial sponsorship in countries such as Japan. Japan is a testament that a totally devastated economy and country can bounce back if their leaders work on a fifty year plan rather than sell everyone out for short term stock market gains, which is the current business school model of teaching in America. An island nation with very little raw material resources, and a total land area less than the size of California, has managed to surpass America in many industrial areas. The advantages Japan has is a government which supports industrial collaborations (hiritsu) in terms of passing laws which give them extreme trade advantages. Factories take full advantage of their unavailable land area, actually using it to their advantage, by having suppliers located nearby, which shortens travel time for their supply chain. They also have a workforce located nearby, reducing traffic congestion. Their industrial prowess includes just in time, zero inventory strategies, low tolerance for product defects, short turnaround times, and a smarter use of technologies which signal their downstream suppliers immediately when their production schedule and product mix changes. Japan has become better at teaching the lessons of Henry Ford and American manufacturing ingenuity than American colleges and universities. American universities teach MBA courses about how to make corporate profits, but they provide very little attention to how they can improve the way their factories make products. Japanese strategy includes filing more patents and identifying and going after monopolizing the worldwide domination and manufacture of critical components. An example of the need for patents is that LED was created by Americans, but Japan filed 50 times the number of patents and an American court ruled in favor of the Japanese, so the American inventors were no longer able to even produce LED. Americans legislators who do not understand trade make trade deals which end up in favor of other countries. Sure, we can ship automobiles and innovative American products to Japan, but they intentionally unload the ships slowly until Japanese products have already saturated the Japanese markets. For all Japan does right, they also did some things wrong. When they designed where the factories would go, they did not always consider where the people would live and farm, and they built factories right on top of their best, most fertile soil for growing crops. As a result, they have to import most of their food, and have a heavy reliance on seafood.

NC and America can either lead, follow, or be left behind. The last two choices are not an option!

Jan MacKay proposes that North Carolina does not resign itself to being in the pizza delivery business, developing the next pharmaceutical product to addict the masses to, and helping corporate board members to get rich by selling imported goods.

Instead, NC should take the initiative in identifying a list of critical components for products that will be in high international demand in the future, in industries such as solar power photovoltaics and electrical converters and generators, and work with private business to design an industrial infrastructure, to compete not only in the product assemby industries, but also in the conversion of raw materials to components and, eventually finished goods.