On the recordJuly 14, 2010
We really aren't federally dependent in the sense that we don't have gigantic bases. We do have Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in the city of Columbus, our capital. But the rest of Ohio has to either mine--and Congressman Wilson comes from a part of our State that actually supplies so much of the coal that is shipped to our region and others. We either have to grow in regions like mine--I represent a major agricultural region that abuts Lake Erie's southern shore--or we have to manufacture. We don't really have any choice. So we have to create wealth, basically. And what's been happening over our country for many decades now is that we are amassing trillion-dollar trade deficits every year, which means all that spending benefits someplace else. Ten percent of the goods that are exported from China go to one company--Wal-Mart. They are a bazaar for Chinese goods. We look at what you have pictures of up there, vehicles and wind turbines. I was just through a part of my district where wind turbines are going up now. We'd like to manufacture them as well as deploy them.
