Posted on 01/09/2016 7:23:10 PM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
It's a good thing Trump wants to rebuild our manufacturing base, because it truly has taken a hit. We've turned from a nation of builders to burger flippers.
To put in perspective just how bad things have gotten - there were more Americans employed in manufacturing in the months leading up to Pearl Harbor than there are today, despite the fact that the population then was a fraction of what it is today.
In that time, there was 1 person employed in manufacturing for every 10.6 people in the overall population compared to 1 person employed in government for every 26.1 people in the overall population.
Oh how things have changed. As CNS News reported:
Those employed by government in the United States in August of this year outnumbered those employed in the manufacturing sector by almost 1.8 to 1, according to data published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
There were 21,995,000 employed by federal, state and local government in the United States in August, according to BLS. By contrast, there were only 12,329,000 employed in the manufacturing sector.
The 2015 Federal budget spends an unprecedented $3.7 trillion which leaves us with a deficit of over half a trillion dollars.
Trump's plan to restore the manufacturing base consists of placing tariffs on Chinese goods and reducing our relatively high corporate tax rate which incentivizes businesses to set up overseas.
There's a huge opportunity to kill two birds with one stone here. Shrink the government, and when people ask where those former government employees are going to work we'll have some nice manufacturing jobs waiting for them.
(Excerpt) Read more at allenbwest.com ...
PING
I pray it happens!!
Go Trump!!
I remember the projection from years ago (say c 1985)....Either you will be a specialist (Doctor, Lawyer, Engineer, etc.....or in the service industry which is where we’re at.
So are you
Wow.
Businesses that are location dependent are safe also, basically anything that can be outsourced will be.
From end of the article: “.....Shrink the government, and when people ask where those former government employees are going to work we’ll have some nice manufacturing jobs waiting for them.”
Absolutely, so don’t hesitate to eliminate.
Isaiah 57:20 “But the wicked are like the tossing sea, which cannot rest, whose waves cast up mire and mud.”
That is you.
Gov workers are destroying this country.
They get paid double what their private sector counterparts are paid (benefits), retire earlier (55), get every city, county, state and federal holiday off, never work more than 40 hours a week, complain endlessly, as a group vote for those who raise taxes and then (endlessly) increase their salaries (annual 2% cola plus 2-5% performance), are mostly unionized, and produce absolutely NO wealth for the country.
Any hope for revitalizing this country’s economy begins with massive defunding of gov workers salaries, pensions and benefits.
Otherwise it’s same ole same ole, higher taxes to accommodate the unionized gov workers constant demand for salary increases.
Yep. The federal government has grown too big!
When this country was founded, approximately 19 out of every 20 people -- that's 95% of the nation's work force -- worked in some form of agriculture. Our standard of living was primitive by any modern measure, and our total national output of agricultural products was a fraction of what it is today ... even with agriculture comprising only 1.5% of our work force.
If this is from Allen West, then I have to say that it’s sad to see what early onset dementia does to someone.
The difference is that agriculture jobs flat out disappeared. The manufacturing jobs didn’t disappear, there still around. The got shipped out. So you are the one spewing nonsense.
On the other hand, we manufacture far more goods than ever before. We just don’t need any workers to do it!
Allen West has spent nearly his entire adult life working in government.
there = they’re
You left off the 4 days per pay-period of “telework” with no accountability except they need to be signed in to VDI to read emails or something.
Of course telework is for reducing greenhouse gases so its OK, right?
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