Mr. Timmons it sounds good. I am jay timmons, ceo of the National Association of manufacturers. We had a great meeting with the president and Vice President , and we were able to deliver news to the president. Every quarter, the National Association of manufacturers surveys our 14,000 members, and the survey is about their outlook on the economy and on the success of their business. For the first time in many, many years, we had an uptick in optimism among manufacturers, 93. 3 positive. To put that in perspective, one year ago the number was 56 positive. To also put it in perspective, it is the highest number for optimism we have seen in our survey in the entire 20 years we have been conducting the survey. Another data point that we found to be very interesting that we were able to share with the president is the righttrack, wrongtrack number, from the perspective of manufacturers. A month before he came to office, the righttrack number was a very low 26 . The last survey showed that the righttrack number was 60 . So we were very happy to share that news with the president , and let him know that manufacturers are very excited about his agenda for tax reform, regulatory reform, and infrastructure investment. Weve got a few folks with us today. As you can see, they represent our small and mediumsized manufacturers. 90 of our 14,000 members are small and mediumsized, and they were happy to be here to present the good news to the president. [indiscernible] mr. Timmons a lot of this has to do with the agenda the administration is putting forward and the action to date, and what i would like to do is turn it over to drew greenblatt. Mr. Greenblatt my name is drew greenblatt. I am the owner of marlin steel. We are a factory in Baltimore City and we make everything in Baltimore City and we export to 39 countries and we make wire baskets for automotive and pharmaceutical applications that go down the conveyor belt. We are very optimistic about the future of American Manufacturing. We believe there is an American Manufacturing renaissance. The Inflection Point is right now. It is a very exciting time for American Manufacturing. Things we talked about with the president include taxes. Right now we have an opportunity to cut taxes so that we can be more effective and hire more people and grow more jobs. Right now my company is competing on a job for a huge factory in europe. We are making wire baskets for this factory in europe. Were competing with the German Company. The German Company has lower taxes than marlin does. We pay 40something percent, and because of that, we have a challenge. Some of the things we talked about with President Trump was if we could get the 15 rate, we could win this job and hire unemployed Baltimore City people and bring them into the middle class and pull them up out of poverty. Its a very exciting time for American Manufacturing, and we are enthusiastic about the policies less regulations, cutting taxes. It is having a big impact in American Manufacturing. Thank you. Mr. Timmons Kellie Johnson of ace clearwater in southern california. Ms. Johnson good morning, everyone. Im Kellie Johnson, president and ceo of ace clearwater enterprises. We are located in southern california. We employ 200 employees, we are a familyowned business im third generation. We are a supplier to the aerospace and Power Generation industries. If it flies or it is launched, we have parts on it. Like so many manufacturers across this country, we are extremely excited that our president and the administration has a laserbeam focus on our economy and the Manufacturing Industry sector. The fact that he is going to be looking at tax reform we are super excited about because twothirds of manufacturers in the country are structured as a passthrough. Ace clearwater is one of those companies. We pay taxes on the individual rate. If we were to have individual rates lowered, we would have the ability to make more investments in our business and hire more people. We are very encouraged by the steps this administration is taking. Thank you. Mr. Timmons steve. Mr. Staub good morning. I am steve staub with Staub Manufacturing Solutions in dayton, ohio. Im a president of the company and partial owner with my sister, sandy. We are a small, 28person manufacturing company. We make parts for many of the Larger Companies out there. We are so excited about the optimism we see from our customers. It was great discussing this with President Trump. And feel that as we grow and the optimism in the industry grows, we can add so many more people to our workforce and bring people out of poverty and people that are struggling. There is opportunities in the industry, and we feel that as the industry grows and we continue to add more people, the optimism is very strong in the industry and we are very excited. Mr. Timmons last is Karen Buchwald wright. Ms. Buchwald wright hello, i am Karen Buchwald wright. Im the president and ceo of a company that manufactures natural gas compressors. If you use natural gas to cook or electricity, in all likelihood it has been through one of our compressors. We are based in ohio. And our equipment is found virtually everywhere in the world that there is oil and gas. And the thing that we are particularly happy about is that when you talk about infrastructure development, that doesnt just mean roads and bridges. It also means the entire network of pipelines, 2. 6 million miles of pipelines that move natural gas and oil around the nation. And there are about 80 fairly large projects currently pending that will be using our compressors and that will help to make the United States domestically secure for energy, and we are really happy to see that supported because we feel that this is extremely important that the United States have that kind of security. Thanks. Mr. Timmons and thank you. We are happy to take questions. One last point i would like to make. We reminded the president about our study, which he had seen, that shows that these manufacturers and their colleagues across the country are subjected to 297,696 regulations, and for a small and mediumsized manufacturer, that translates to 35,000 per employee per year in compliance costs, and we gave him a hearty thankyou for helping us to tame the Regulatory Burden on manufacturers. With that reporter the regulations and the effects on the environment [indiscernible] mr. Timmons great news for manufacturers, we are the innovators, and we are the ones coming up with new technologies to make sure that our air is cleaner and water is cleaner and our workplaces are safer. I will say that im pretty proud of the fact that there has been a tremendous decrease in output of carbon from manufacturing facilities and a tremendous increase in output over the course of the last 10 years. Because of energy efficiency. [laughter] we win. Mr. Timmons any other questions . Thank you all so muc
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