America, the temple of invention and industry, doesn't make things anymore.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there.
Let's face it: innovation in the U.S. is now the province of our thriving city-states. We all know that nothing happens in Washington anymore.
When I think of invention, I always think of America. You're always seeing ads: 'Have you got the next big idea?' There seems to be that spirit in America of inventions and inventors.
Factories not what they used to be - they're all extremely high-tech.
For a variety of reasons, we are not producing at a given level of economic activity the jobs we used to have.
Hollywood still makes things. We still export a couple billion dollars' worth of product overseas. Original, new product. Some people might not agree that it's original or new, but basically it is.
You know that American dream and American spirit of innovation we always talk about? Turns out, the bulk of it was built by people who came to America from somewhere else, not people born American. We have no birthright or natural lock on these things.
Do we want in this nation to lose the backbone of manufacturing in this country? Do we want to be a nation that doesn't want to manufacture anything?
I have to tell you that the innovation and the technology and the entrepreneurship of the world still lies in the United States of America.
We're actually making stuff in America now. We're exporting stuff. We're inventing things.