The Alliance for American Manufacturing attempted an all-United-States-made strategy in building their Washington DC headquarters. The Alliance is an industry lobbying group formed in 2007 to focus public policy on helping America’s disappearing manufacturing sector. Their project demonstrates how an 1980s-style “Buy American” campaign might be impossible today:
Need computers, televisions or phones for your home or office? A coffee maker or a compact fluorescent light bulb? No such luck. Those products simply aren’t manufactured stateside, Paul said. (They did settle on buying a Keurig.)
