Posted on 03/09/2020 6:42:28 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
Nothing wrong with Grand Isle.
Just as long as it isn’t JUST a nebraska thing.
We already know the horror show of ‘single point of failure’ now.
Let’s don’t repeat that in CONUS.
Yeah, really. Let’s restore it to the USA proper!
Yeah, you’re right.
But PR isn’t a good choice.
It’s been so long, and things have changed so much, everything will have to be new from the ground up.
Should be a rudimentary one in every state, at least.
Automation with few jobs would be preferable to being over the sea (any sea).
>>>President Bill Clinton signed a law that started to phase out the tax breaks during the 1990s.
The President can only sign bills passed by Congress. Who controlled the Congtess in 1996?
How hard is this? It’s not like we have to start a Manhattan Project and apply a new form of energy to the problem.
Find a few distressed areas, build a few factories. What are they doing in Detroit these days, or Youngstown? Places where there are already highways and houses, but no workers because no work.
I agree it is best not to have all our eggs in one basket when it comes to drug manufacturing, but:
1) Puerto Rico is part of the US, if only as a territory;
2) Puerto Ricans are Hispanics, and bringing drug manufacturing back would be a good way to appeal to this constituency;
3) it would be harder for the Demonrats in Congress to argue against tax breaks for drug companies in a depressed area like PR than it would be for them to argue against tax breaks in general for drug companies to start up production in the US—Demonrats are trying to appeal to Hispanics too; and
4) not many people know that Clinton got rid of the tax breaks for Puerto Rican drug companies. By acting to restore the breaks, Trump would be making people think about how tax policy can help or harm the US and whose policies-Clinton, a Demonrat—harmed the US in light of the coronavirus scare.
For the cost savings, I would think it would be more advantageous to have a limited number of GRAS clean facilities located in CONUS, rather than parceling them out to several states as political favors. The most used drugs would be produced in these labs. Less utilized pharmaceuticals and research products should be separated in other locations.
Not ‘several states’.
Every state.
Small, easily retooled.
In such a manner that they will NOT be easily politicized.
If they’re all in NJ, CA and NC, you can bet your bippy they’ll be ‘owned’ by dims.
Tech available now, as opposed to even 25 years ago, allows this to happen.
In the event of some sort of attack, some pandemic microbe, or anything, you always have backup production capacity.
“The chicoms wanted the US to be a colony of china.”
Remember Clinton and Charlie Trie?
Oh yeah.
How could I forget.
Clinton sold out the entire country for a mess of pottage.
Make puerto rico mexico again
Unfortunately, they ARE "Americans"
Only if they ban ALL H1-B visas for the plants.
I’d prefer that drug production come back to the United States.
Could be those campaign contributions he got that came in through Chinese restaurants in Little Rock as well as from the PLA itself.
Craft breweries are located all over the country and they use equipment very similar to what is used to produce antibiotics on a large scale. Worked at a major pharmaceutical company during college. The facility I worked in was the small scale production center for a new antibiotic the company was developing. They used small brewing vats to ferment the “mash” that produced the drug. It was a interesting summer job.
The country wouldn’t suffer from having fewer craft beers.
Ya.
It’s the dependence on a foreign country, or a specific region of THIS country that’s a problem.
Distributed computing, distributed manufacturing, etc.
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