FLIR Systems, Inc.

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FLIR Systems, Inc.

• InfraMation Conference
• Las Vegas, NV
• October 18, 2005
• Patrick J. Cleary,
• Senior Vice President,
• Communications, NAM
• blog.nam.org

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• Policy-Making Process

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Importance of Manufacturing

• Over One-eighth (13) of Gross Domestic Product

• 80 retail

• 88 construction, mining and agriculture

• 175 transportation and utilities

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Standing alone, it is

• The worlds 8th largest economy
• Larger than the economies of

-Spain
-Canada
-South Korea and Mexico combined
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• Manufacturing is responsible for nearly
  two-thirds (62) of all U.S. exports of goods and
  services.
• Manufacturing is responsible for three fifths of
  all industrial R D
• Manufacturing is responsible for 90 of all
  patents.

-Agriculture 60billion/yearly
-Manufacturing 60billion/monthly
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• Manufacturing employs 14 million people

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Challenges Reduce the costs of doing business in
the US

• NAM Study
• 22 cost disadvantages vs. trading
  partners

• Challenges
• Taxes
• Health Care (1/6 of GDP)

• Regulations
• --180 billion cost of regulation
• --32 billion workplace
• --Highest environmental costs

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Challenges Legal Costs (2 of
GDP)

• Larger than the economies of
• Hong Kong Hungary
• Vietnam Venezuela
• Portugal Peru
• Algeria Israel
• Romania Ireland
• Czech Republic Morocco
• Denmark Nigeria
• Chile Kazakhstan
• Norway Singapore
• Finland Belarus
• ..and 173 others

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Challenges A level playing field with all
trading partners

• Vis a vis China, this means

-No currency manipulation
-Respect for intellectual property
-No illegal subsidies
-Compliance with all WTO rules
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Challenges
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Challenges
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TAKE ACTION Prosperity Project WWW.NAM.ORG/P2

• Identify issues that matter to your company
• Tell your employees how those issues affect them
• Let them take action on those issues
• Tell them where candidates and incumbents stand
• Get them registered and to the polls

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Congressional Manufacturing Caucus Members108th
Congress NAM Voting Record

• Chaka Fattah PA 0
• Bob Filner CA 0
• George Miller CA 0
• Major R. Owens NY 0
• Hilda L. Solis CA 0
• John Tierney MA 0
• nam.org/votingrecord

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Congressional Manufacturing Caucus Members108th
Congress NAM Voting Record

• Robert E. Andrews NJ 5
• Eliot L. Engel NY 5
• Michael R. McNulty NY 5
• David R. Obey WI 5
• Lucille Royal-Allard CA 5
• Tim Ryan NY 5
• nam.org/votingrecord

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Congressional Manufacturing Caucus Members108th
Congress NAM Voting Record

• Martin Olav Sabo MN 5
• Jose E. Serrano NY 5
• Nydia M. Velazquez NY 5
• Richard Gephardt MO 8
• Stephen Lynch MA 9
• Melvin L. Watt NC 9
• nam.org/votingrecord

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Making Progress

• South Dakota
• Tom Daschle 22
• John Thune 95
• South Carolina
• Fritz Hollings 10
• Jim DeMint 88
• North Carolina
• John Edwards 8
• Richard Burr 95

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Our Message

• Manufacturing is critically important to the US
  economy and standard of living.
• We are challenged as never before, here and
  abroad.
• Before you vote/take action ask yourself will
  this make US manufacturing more or less
  competitive?
• We will be watching how you vote and
• We will be informing our employees.

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• Just because you do not take an interest in
  politics doesnt mean politics wont take an
  interest in you.
• -Pericles
• The penalty that good men pay for not being
  interested in politics is to be governed by men
  worse than themselves.
• -Plato
• pcleary_at_nam.org/202.637.3124
• blog.nam.org
• www.nam.org/P2