On The Leslie Marshall Radio Show last night, Alliance for American Manufacturing (AAM) Executive Director Scott Paul explained why AAM recently launched its national "Should Be Made in America" campaign.

Paul said "this is about jobs, and how we use our tax dollars to create jobs, or whether we don't."

He said the "dirtly little secret" about the San Francisco Bay Bridge, for example, is that the steel for the bridge was outsourced to China.  This has led the project to being "years delayed and way over budget."

Paul pointed out that this one instance of outsourced steel production cost the U.S. roughly 2,500 jobs.  He said this is "outrageous" and we need to "stop this from happening in the future."

Paul added that this is about the next generation of rail and bridge projects, and where these materials will come from.  It all comes down to where tax dollars are spent for future infrastructure work: "Are they going to be supporting American factories or are they going to these government-owned firms in China that are undermining our companies and costing us jobs?"

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