Mark Gordon: “Well, unfortunately, the strong are surviving, but they are surviving by or prospering by sending jobs offshore. So let…”

“Well, unfortunately, the strong are surviving, but they are surviving by or prospering by sending jobs offshore. So let me say what MEP really is about, for the 99 percent of America who do not know what these initials stands for. Right now, small- and medium-sized manufacturing businesses cannot afford to have full-time experts, specialists, and technicians on their staff like the big guys can. So what MEP does, it is a State-based program that allows these small- and medium-sized manufacturers to combine their resources and go to the State and get some help on a project here, a project there, where they could not afford to have that full-time expert. It makes them more productive, it allows them to be more competitive internationally, it creates additional jobs, and it returns many, many, many more dollars to the Federal Government than is sent out.”