Author Alan Uke is guest today on WBRT’s ‘Brooks & Co.’

STAFF REPORT

ALAN UKE

Tuesday, April 3. 2012. 9 a.m. — San Diego businessman, author and entrepreneur Alan Uke will be the guest today at 11 a.m. on 1320 WBRT’s “Brooks & Company.” Uke’s new book, “Buying America Back,” details the problems that our trade deficits create in our economy, and ways American consumers can help. Uke proposes more detailed country of origin labeling for products sold in the United States in order for consumers to know which foreign supplier their purchase ultimately is supporting.

The book concisely describes how we arrived in our current economic crisis and provides an attainable solution for making our way out. It makes a case for a more complete and accurate country of origin label and shows consumers how they can use the information to bring back U.S. jobs and create new ones. Not only can consumers use the label to help the US economy, it can drive them toward higher quality items, and help them direct their money to countries that conform to their ideological principles, such as environmental and human rights standards.

Buying America Back also gives readers a valuable consumer tool–the second half of the book is a guide. It lists countries which are likely to show up on consumer product labels and provides basic consumer information and interesting notes about these countries. This includes the kind of items they produce, where they ship to, and how that country rates on various ideological issues.

“Buying America Back” by Alan Uke gives us a practical, attainable way we can restore the American economy and recreate jobs. Praised for being interesting, smart, and extremely readable, Buying America Back will change the way you think about spending.

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