Posted on 10/17/2022 4:57:34 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
any reason we cannot use the UNITED STATES FACTORY?
Roll back regulations
Make energy like mad.
Or... you know... just roll back some of the energy regulations and build here?
Roll back regulations
Make energy like mad.
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Sounds glib at first but your observation is spot-on. The politician who could make this happen would have a marvelous platform. Moving US into the manufacturing lead would then make it impossible for those green energy loonies to ever cut back a stable energy program.
CO2 produced by white people is bad.
CO2 produced by non whites is okay.
Understood?
As long as Vietnam continues to act like a Honey Badger to China, maybe. China is a powerful gangster and bully in that region.
This screed seems to be all “Mexico, Mexico, Mexico (First)” and no America First. The USA was the “factory of the world” before the left got entrenched.
USA, USA, USA.
We should be the factory of the world.
We invent it, we build it.
We can solve manufacturing and immigration and a whole lot of other problems by making Mexico the 51st state. Make sure you get out of the way of the human stampede back to Mexico.
RE: We invent it, we build it.
And we REGULATE IT and TAX IT.
Why manufacture in the US when the labor will have to be imported? Cut out the middleman of the US government and make things where the labor is, Mexico! Sarcasm or reality?
I’d like to see Brazil taking a larger roll in manufacturing.
After 4 more years of Trump we could start thinking about making Mexico states 51-83.
“any reason we cannot use the UNITED STATES FACTORY?”
Chinese average wage is $13K per year. Vietnam is $2400.
That is why companies are moving to Vietnam. It’s a hard ask for them to move to the USA where they need to pay workers $60K.
As long as the Spice flows. And spice may vary
Fear is the Mind Killer...
Go back in time four years. Trump got a Foxconn deal to make a plant in Wisconsin.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3683014/posts
“any reason we cannot use the UNITED STATES FACTORY?”
Take a cell phone. It probably has anywhere up to a a few hundred parts. They’re made at different type plants with different price points. This is all optimized to get a product that the maximum number of people can afford. Formerly, China was the supplier for all of the low-end stuff. This is because a Chinese business does not operate to make a profit. It operates to employ people. Seriously, they don’t present a business plan to get a loan, they present an employment plan. The Chinese business model was to keep as many people employed and the Chinese government used make-believe money to pay their people. This is why the Chinese currency is not convertible. The two times they made the money convertible billions of dollars flowed out of the country in capital flight because every Chinese realizes that if they leave their money in the country, it will eventually be worthless even at home. Of course, this isn’t fair to the rest of the world where we have (more or less) real economies and profit. But to answer your question. It’s game theory. If your competitor uses slave labor in China and you use union wage employees in America, you will go out of business and your competitor will get insanely rich.
Now, however, the game has changed. At least the low-end stuff will be built at a profit but in Vietnam or India. If you assembled an iPhone in the US and all the parts were built here, even if you used an all-robotic plant, the government and its many agencies would ensure that you didn’t make a profit. Or, if you did, your product would be ridiculously expensive. Because our government is a financial vampire.
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