Check out this BBC Interview - Featuring Drew Greenblatt, President of Marlin Steel. He discusses how the Stimulus Package will help aid in U.S. manufacturing and how buisnesses depend on global trade to stay afloat.
Host: This is an American business, Marlin Steel Wire Products. It's doing well already and very much looking forward to the stimulus package going through. Drew Greenblatt, does it mean good things for jobs here in Baltimore?
Drew Greenblatt: Absolutely. It's going to have a direct relationship. What's going to happen is Americans are now going to wake up, get rolling again, and we're going to put this behind us.
Host: And we're talking about the jobs, the guys who are here in Baltimore working on your products, but also in a sense, you're giving business to overseas economies.
Drew Greenblatt: Absolutely. Uh when we uh do well, we make wire baskets, we get more optimistic, we'll buy robots from countries that um make robots. Like for example, right now we're standing next to a robot that was made in England. In Southern England in Dorking. Uh adjacent to this uh robot that was made in England, uh there's two French robots. Behind me, uh we have Japanese robots, we have German robots. We're getting, we're poised to buy a couple Italian welders uh in the next couple days. Last month we bought a Canadian robot. So when we do well, we buy from from foreigners and it's good for all of us.
Host: So a final thought, Drew, when people say look, the stimulus is American taxpayers' dollars, it should be about American jobs. You see it as something a lot bigger than that.
Drew Greenblatt: Absolutely. It's the entire economy not only of America but of the world that I'm focused on.
Host: Drew, thanks very much.
Drew Greenblatt: Thank you.