The health of the machine-tool sector is the most accurate barometer of a nation's physical-economic health and its potential for future growth. The United States, once a leader in machine tool manufacturing, has experienced an accelerating, fundamental, downward trend in its machine-tool sector since the mid-1960s. This decline is seen as the extinguishing of the machine-tool design principle, which, unless reversed, threatens America's future.

To diagnose this paralysis, consider the current financial structure as a massive, intricate water system, an essential infrastructure for distributing vital resources (credit) across the economic landscape.

A Nation at a Crossroads The United States stands at a precipice, confronting a systemic crisis of a magnitude not seen since the financial collapse that ushered in the Great Depression. Decades of deindustrialization, decaying infrastructure and the elevation of market speculation over productive enterprise have culminated in a national condition of managed decline. Our nation’s infrastructure grid is decrepit on all levels.  Those with the greatest skills in productive trad

Infrastructure isn’t just concrete and steel. It is the productive scaffolding of civilization. Either we rebuild it (through public financing) or we decay along with it.

Omnium Rerum Principia Parva Sunt. 'The beginnings of all things are small.' – Cicero

Lincoln’s economic philosophy rested on what he called “free labor” or the belief that all honest work deserves dignity, opportunity and reward. He viewed invention and labor not as opposing forces but as partners in progress.

To secure a free and prosperous future, a people must first reclaim its capacity to produce. It must cultivate its orchard before it can enjoy its fruit.

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