Fat cats frown upon the act of starvation. DJT has a monumental task ahead. The nation has this bad habit set in stone for the past decades. To learn the how to’s, the population will require the need to be retaught in building a nation of manufacturing. Thinkers have been beaten to brain dead restraints far too long. To think it was our men of yesterday who managed to save a group of miners when there was no other option.... sad, that ability has been tossed aside and may never be known again. Not only jobs have been lost. Lives have been lost.
“To learn the how to’s, the population will require the need to be retaught in building a nation of manufacturing.”
The task is even more daunting when it comes to implementing an industrial renaissance when you consider the boomer generation with the manufacturing planning, technical and supervisory skills are retiring. The educational institutions are not teaching college grads the analytical skills needed to run efficient operations. A prosperous future for a revitalized US manufacturing base will require the millennial generation to rise to the challenge. They will be the workers, production planners, industrial engineers, and supervisors who will determine if new American factories operate efficiently and compete effectively. If they choose to make new factories laboratories for politically correct social engineering, instead of focusing on customer service and efficiency, the new factories will fail and the United States will slide into a mediocre third world economy where our natural resources are exploited by rising Asian industrial giant and our people will live in poverty.
The millennial generation will also have to put aside their video games and smart phones. Building and starting up factories requires grueling 12 hour days standing on hard concrete floors, not a leisurely 9-5 day sitting in an ergonomic chair staring at a computer screen with a cup of Starbucks next to the mouse. Training and supervising requires excellent face to face communication and motivational skills, not texting from one smartphone to another. The best managers of people walk and talk, they don’t sit hundreds of miles away in skyscrapers sending out text messages and emails. John D. Rockefeller worked in oil fields and Andrew Carnegie was no stranger to the floor of a steel mill. Will the new industrialists have dirty fingernails or will they sit in Manhattan penthouses and party in the Hamptons on weekends?
The other issue will be the capital required to build new factories. The CEO jobs in most companies are filled with financial manipulators and lawyers who do not understand internal manufacturing or serving customers. Will the Warren Buffetts, Tom Steyers, Carl Ichans, and other billionaire globalist financiers, who have spent decades downizing and outsourcing US factories, invest their billions to rebuild American manufacturing and supply chains, or will they spend their billions funding leftist social activism, leftist universities, and leftist politicians. It will require several trillion dollars, and at least a decade, to rebuild the US as an industrial power. These funds will have to come from the private sector, and the implementation will occur in the private sector. If the leaders of industry refuse to make the financial and people investments, there will be no renaissance. Trump can lead, but if money doesn’t follow, nothing will happen.
Universities will have to be overhauled as well. The curriculum in business schools is heavily geared to finance, not operations, product development, marketing or customer service. American primary and secondary schools will need to provide students with fundamental skills in math and science, and encourage them to pursue careers in engineering and factory level management.
Then there are Congress critters who will fight every change in the status quo.