Posted on 11/17/2016 9:31:18 AM PST by dragnet2
That statement was made in 2009. . . Seven years ago when labor and regulatory conditions were quite different. Under a Trump regulatory environment, there will be differences, but I think the jobs will not be coming with the manufacturing. . . Instead it will be automated out the kazoo, which is already happening on Apple's assembly lines in China.
Apple has already brought jobs back to the US starting with manufacturing the iMac in Elk Grove, California, in 2012, and the Mac Pro in Austin, Texas, in 2013. When it has become economical and practical to move jobs here, Apple has done it.
Winning!!!
Make that three to six months and you'll be more correct. . . There are still some bureaucracies in Texas to contend with.
Trump is an enigma to everyone in power. They are used to people who they can buy, or who have been bought by people that they can buy. People that owe favors to lobbyists and donors. Trump is none of those things. In fact, hardly anybody in power even supported him.
Paul Ryan tried to torpedo him, I think other than Jeff Sessions no US Senators actively campaigned for him and many like Jeff Flake and Pat Toomey flat out refused to endorse him. He self financed a huge chunk of his campaign and most of the rest was from small donors. He has no favors owed from past offices held.
In a word, he is his own man, wholly and fully. This hasn't happened since possibly Reagan. Nobody knows what to do when an American President strides forth and declares that he will do as he sees fit without favors or donations factoring into it. It unnerves them and gives Trump his favorite thing, leverage!
They have said similar things for 200 years.
Made by a robot here in the US would bring plenty of jobs compared to being made in Red China
Winning already, folks!
That sounds like the argument the Dems always used against Keystone pipeline: “It’ll take 5 years to build it, so we should NEVER do it!” With that attitude, a new refinery, power plant, or factory would never be built.
OF COURSE it takes time to build big plants. That’s a huge “Duh!”
Bingo!
lol...
Because a pre-robot 1972 Ford Pinto was no model of quality. Most human-made complicated things suck. Even a Ferrari which is hand made, is fast, but as reliable as a 1952 Studebaker. We will need workers for quality assurance, engineering, and some assembly but a robot can make things cheaper and better and that's a good thing. Don't like it? Then don't stumble through high school, a drunken\stoned moron. You need to plan on a degree or a vocation with a future. The days of drifting around waiting for opportunity to find you in your hometown are never coming back. We had it good for 75 years in America, but they are gone forever.
There would be PLENTY of jobs in such plants if Foxconn brought the final assembly of iPhones to the US. Robots would do much of the “unskilled” pure assembly work but the robots need to be overseen, managed, repaired and adjusted as appropriate. There would be ancillary jobs needed to support the process. Auto manufacturing is largely done by robots now but the assembly/manufacturing process requires significant human support.
I will never get tired of winning.
Especially after the last 8 years of having our Presidency usurped by a total fraud.
Amen
everything has to be shovel ready for them because their philosophy is to spend all the money immediately. They never cared about the future...that is why they never fixed our infrastructure
Ok... and which state will have their taxpayers coughing up millions In state tax exemptions? Mostly robotics, so this falls under the no news category to me. The last time I watched a small corp “return”, it costed taxpayers millions. I can’t imagine the taxpayer dollars for a major corp. If our corp tax rate changed, this might make mathematical sense. Otherwise, mathematical wishful thinking.
Oh what a surprise, someone who has no issues whatsoever with American products being made in venues like Ustinkistan and Communist China. Because according to you it won't make a bit of difference, and won't help at all, right?
We're going to make America great again, in spite of people like you! Big changes are coming whether you're ready or not. You best hang on tight.
Btw, Were you a Cruz supporter by any chance?
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