As I was looking at some of my children's toys today I began checking where they were all manufactured. China, India, Singapore, Korea and Mexico came up often. These were American owned things like Disney, United Features Syndicate (The Peanuts gang Snoopy and Charlie Brown) Tonka, Hot Wheels and others. All American owned invention's and ideas.

I began to think about the 30 million people without jobs in the United States. Then I put together that 30 million is about the number being thrown around of people without health insurance. That makes sense because most people get health coverage through their jobs.

I wondered what it would take to get those American owned companies to being their products back to the United States for production. I'm sure lowering the minimum wage would help. But we could not lower it enough to be competitive with the countries mentioned above. Tax incentives would be very helpful. Maybe loosening regulations a bit.

We wouldn't need all the jobs to come home. Just enough to cut the 10% unemployment back down to size. Of course we as a country would have to make some sacrifices. Like the minimum wage. Like paying a bit more for products. I think maybe it would be a small price to pay for getting America moving again and covering many people with health care.