John Gardner
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119 appearances
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 23 Jun
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Well, 48% of American manufacturers are five employees or less.
75% of American manufacturers are 20 employees or less.
And 90% of American manufacturers are 50 employees or less.
And they support the rest of the high-end industry, the robotics and the automation, the bigger companies, they're the sub-tier levels.
And they're very reliant on us
because if we do one niche thing and there's not a lot of other people that do it, they rely on us.
And so I'm passionate because a lot of these small companies are family owned and have been doing it for generations.
And that's how, you know, that's the manufacturing ball game is generational decades, not the kind of quick financial engineering.
So that's why I'm so passionate about it, Steve.
Well, so –
First of all, they're doing an amazing job and they're very receptive to what industry has to feed back to them.
I was quite stunned by how open they are and they acknowledge, hey, we know what we don't know.
And I thought that was so important to me.
They're aware they're not manufacturing experts and they want our input and they're opening up lines of communication for that.
And that, I mean, two years ago when I wrote my book to think that we'd have an administration place where the Secretary of Commerce is asking
industry people for their input and receiving it and It's it's really cool.
It was very very touching actually and inspiring and so I
That was kind of the thrust of today was just basically, hey, you're welcome to give your input, and we will take it seriously.
And that means the world to a lot of the manufacturing people that were there today.
I didn't speak up personally because I wanted to say what I had to say for the war room and the audience here.
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