Kathy Gornik defends productivity of Kentucky workforce

Kathy Gornik, CEO of Thiel Audio and Board Chair of the Bluegrass Institute, challenges the conventional thinking that assumes manufacturing is in serious decline in the attached interview with Investors Business Daily last Monday. Kathy "isn't against outsourcing manufacturing to China. She just thinks her employees can do a better job."

Kudos to Kathy Gornik, the hero of every productive worker in Kentucky!

An avowed supporter of free markets and global capitalism, she also warns, "The worst concept that is perpetuated by political leaders is that economics is a zero-sum game — that China's gain in manufacturing jobs is a direct minus in the U.S."

"Zero-sum game" thinking is what perpetrates the Frankfort attitude that the productive companies in Kentucky must "give back" to the unproductive ones, that the school districts with the most funding must be forced to subsidize the worst ones. What Kentucky institutions need is more courageous competitors like Kathy Gornik.

What if she were Gov. Beshear's Economic Development Secretary?