Americans Understand the Need for a Competitive Manufacturing Basehttp://blog.nema.org/blogs/currents/archive/2009/07/01/americans-understand-the-need-for-a-competitive-manufacturing-base.aspxGood news coming out of a recent Deloitte survey , undertaken in conjunction with The Manufacturing Institute . Americans still view manufacturing as the most important industry for a strong national economy. Almost three-fourths of respondents viewedenCommunityServer 2008.5 (Debug Build: 30929.2835)