Good information that we all need to know.

[Don G]

Mr Weaver is well respected in our county. This is no fable or doctored up You Tube video. These are simply the facts about his businesses. This is a known fact in our small mountain county of 28,000 folks. Since our economic downturn folks in our community have been a little jumpy about how many of our products are made in China.

The following is Mr Weaver's answer as to why he has his products manufactured in China. He does this with no policical bias. In fact he calls out both major parties. The first 4 mentioned are Republicans and the last 2 are Democrats. His is not afraid to name the folks he dealt with from the local level up to our State Senators.

I don't know Jack Weaver personally but I do know he is well thought of in our county.

We have absolutely lost what common sence we ever had.


I understand the frustrations people have over foreign made products and most especially China. For 16 years I made products in China - and I still do. Why? I was sued by OUR, YOURS AND MINE, U.S Dept of Labor for using "cottage Industry workers" (contract employees). The final settlement with OUR UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT was that I would not produce another item in the USA for three years on a contract basis.I had taken people off of welfare, public assistance, etc. One young lady, Sarah, confined to a wheelchair - now she is back on public assistance programs, was making $25,000 a year part time. When I stopped producing and terminated 300 jobs most of those people went back on public assistance programs. More recently, and most of you are aware of the fact that for TWO YEARS, and over $20,000 investment in paper work and innumerable hours, I tried to set up an herbal winery in Rural Retreat and received ABSOLUTELY ZERO - ZERO- help to get through our over layered bureaucracy on both a federal level and a state level. NONE - ZERO - response from our elected officials, Annie B Crockett, Morgan Griffith, Bob McDonald and especially the worthless in my opinion, Bill Bolling, as well as Senators Warner and Webb, heads of public federal agencies such as Rural Development, Department of Agriculture on both State and Federal and the list goes on. Guess what - that business was moved overseas too. Did China take it? NO, we sent it.The bottom line is not that China is taking our jobs - it is that we are sending our jobs overseas. There are not many things that we could not produce in this country on a competitive basis and most entrepreneurs want to provide jobs and produce products in the USA but we do not have the time, the capital and the support (outside of lip service) from those we elect to help us do what we do best - being entrepreneurs. There are so many opportunities here in the USA for businesses but to get through our over layered bureaucracies on all levels, local, state and federal is totally overwhelming. So if you want jobs and products to come home - and they would - is to make all levels of government accountable. Truly it is that simple. We keep sending back the same old people to public offices thinking we are going to get different results.Jack Weaver

[Big H trucking]

Amen.....

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[heavyfoot]

I received a phone call about 5 months ago informing me about a town hall conference call with Senator Kay Hagan, D North Carolina on the following evening. Agenda was to get to know Senator Hagan, current issues and jobs in NC. So I dialed in to the conf call because jobs are of the utmost importance to me. I listened to the Senator and then she opened up for questions. I hit the button to be in queue for questions and the time ran out. During the conf call I did not hear any concrete details on how manufacturing jobs were coming back to NC, only fluff.

At the end of the call we were told those that could not ask their question could leave a phone message by pressing another button or send an email. I hit the button and left the following message.

Senator Hagan would you please address the following 3 questions. I also stated my phone number, email address and name.

1 What is “your” detailed business plan to bring electro mechanical manufacturing jobs back to NC?

2 Are you benchmarking our states incentive package vs. the other states competing to make sure we win new business in NC?

3 Besides the corporate tax would you tell me what bills, laws at the state or federal level were passed that caused NC manufacturing companies to move off shore? I want to track the voting records of our politicians.

I got no response after 3 weeks from my phone message so I sent an email with the same questions and after a month I got no response. So I sent another email and as I stated it’s now been 5 months with no response.

I’m very frustrated with no response from Senator Hagan or staff aftering leaving 1 phone message and 2 emails and wanted to let other know what type of support were getting here in NC. We have a high unemployment rate in NC. I’m not going to quote a percentage because I don’t know the algorithm used to calculate the statistics. Families are moving out of this state at an expedited rate to find work elsewhere.

[fishincrazy]

Vote them ALL out in November. Time to start with a whole new crew.

[Phantom309]

I would think = "She got hers, she made it ! !
The rest (you/ya'll) are just the fluff from here on out, etc...........

[Crappie 1]

Vote them ALL out in November. Time to start with a whole new crew.

And who would that be? I'd gladly vote for someone new. The so called new ones are no different than the old ones. The new ones just give us the same B.S. in a different wrapper.

[jimp]

Unfortunately, the new ones have to make deals with the "devils" to get any of their ideas heard or on the table. Or they fed the voters a line of "its time for a change" with big promises, and look what we got going on now. There is no winning solution for the voters imo.

[Crappie 1]

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[Eagle 1]

same bs everywhere you go . the fatcats reguardless of party is serving their own agenda . we need americans in the government not parties !

[Ranger R61]

I’m very frustrated with no response from Senator Hagan or staff aftering leaving 1 phone message and 2 emails and wanted to let other know what type of support were getting here in NC. We have a high unemployment rate in NC. I’m not going to quote a percentage because I don’t know the algorithm used to calculate the statistics. Families are moving out of this state at an expedited rate to find work elsewhere.

I don't think that I have had an actual response from Sen Hagan on issues I emailed to her. In my opinion there are 2 possible reasons:
1. She does not care