How do I like the “New World Order”? Just about as much as I enjoy waiting months at a time on material to come in spurts, while we could be pumping out Panels by the 1k’s. Meanwhile, us “Ex-Offenders” have to make the choice of looking for employment elsewhere, (A dead end job with zero % chance or prosperity) or sit idle waiting on material with no pay, some possibly returning to crime to feed their family. I hope the local RV Industry opens their eyes to our dilemma, and are smart enuff to open a local business that could produce the needed cells/eva locally. Anyone of the many RV window manufacturers nearby can cover our framing and glass needs. This is truly a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for many of us, and it would suck if politics & corporate greed put a halt to it.

Not trying to come off cavalier, flippant or just harsh, but when looking at the statistics of the number of prisoners released each year, one has a full supply for the workforce that needs to find work to feed themselves and many times help them “renew” their family unit with gainful employment after release. KUDOS to Patrick Regan and Marty Whalen for their vision to actually create jobs in the U.S. for those who could certainly use the job.

“Some stuff you’re just not going to get in the United States. I know there are no cell suppliers in the United States, so cells are going to come from overseas. I was surprised by that. On our initial webpage, I say I’m going to source everything from the United States. That was my hope. It didn’t work that way.”

Sad but true, this is a “tell” of how corporate America has failed to build and incorporate a robust supply chain within the American boarders. It has become a (National Security Problem) on so many levels, it is eating manufacturing alive in the U.S., to make “off shoring” attractive to the corporate culture and continue the decline in the American workforce.

“Some stuff you’re just not going to get in the United States. I know there are no cell suppliers in the United States, so cells are going to come from overseas. I was surprised by that. On our initial webpage, I say I’m going to source everything from the United States. That was my hope. It didn’t work that way.”

This is what is called the “new World order”, how do you like it now?

Kelly Pickerel, thank you for a worthy glimpse into the World of manufacturing in the U.S. and probably the rest of the World overall. This is something that should be on Sixty Minutes, showing (why) America has a manufacturing problem, from starting a company to “feeding” a company with a domestic supply chain. The U.S. and many industrialized nations are chasing China and wanting to rise to the point where they are dealing in “economies of scale” only, instead of being forward looking enough to deal in “economies of scope”.