I think a lot of manufacturing will return to the us to save shipping costs and add goodwill, but it will be done mostly by robots, so it won’t really be much of a jobs issue.
“No Matter What Trump Does, Those Jobs Aren’t Coming Back from China”
...but if they do, Obama gets the credit for it.
Some will come back. Some will not. But, every job moved out of China makes it more difficult and expensive for China to pursue its aggressive posture against the United States.
Also, it is worth trying. MAGA!
Considering that China has been adopting a belligerent and hostile posture, ANYTHING which reduces their power to wage war against us, is a good thing.
This would also include terminating all student and H1B visas for Chinese.
Some of those jobs will come back, especially if younger generations get some real education into how economies flourish. Even those that don’t come back, if they went to Central American and Caribbean countries, it would be beneficial for stabilizing their economies. That would cut down the forces driving the invasion crisis.
The average wage for Americans is about $60,000 per year, many times more than China, India or Vietnam..
But these POS know that 60k isn’t the average wage for factory workers.
15 an hour is 30k a year or less.
They are also wrong about robotics not leading to more jobs.
What a piss poor article full of holes that even I CAN shoot into a million pieces.
They don’t deserve a space on this great board.
But it is good to know the lies that are being spouted.
Then again, some here just post articles like these because they have a hard on for Trump (in a bad way) but are too ####ing cowardly to come out and say it.
And that’s how we get sh.t articles like these :)
There are two issues here:
1) Is automation going to be a problem for the US? Will there be too few jobs for Americans as industry becomes increasingly modernized? I would say “yes”.
2) Should China be allowed to take advantage of us though unfair trade practices, intellectual property theft, and currency manipulation? I would say “no”.
The two issues have no serious overlap. A mathematician would say that are “orthogonal”.
Maybe not, but it stops China from stealing our intellectual property and getting US dollars for products then using that money to undermine the USA. It also knocks them down as a financial competitor.
Translation:
They aren't working in rice patties, eating the same thing every meal, and never leaving the region of the country their parents were born in.
-PJ
I heard that Black and Decker is building a factory in Texas to at least make Craftsman tools. Craftsman tools have been made in China and are Crap!
We really don’t need any more defeatists telling us what is possible and what isn’t. As I recall, most, if not all of what passes as the DC intelligentsia was pushing for Reagan to be diplomatic with the USSR, because the Soviets were there to stay and it was essential that we just find a way to get along. We all know how that turned out.
We should have 5, 10, 20, and 40 year plans on how to deal with China, and this should include ensuring US access to all precious metals we need, and a great strengthening of American production capacity.
How much does the writer make per year?
If we pay our workers more, and prices go up, that's OK with me.
I'd rather pay more for goods and services that I want or need, if the quality products are made by USA workers.
Quality is the key, I will not pay more for inferior goods because of where they are made. Period.
The writer is confused as to who the mercantilists are and who are the victims. The merchantilists are the Chinese and the rest of our "trading partners". We re the victim. The writer is an idiot.
Funny, that’s the same line Obama and Hillary were using... Yet Under Obama the nation lost over 300,000 manufacturing Jobs in 8 years.
Yet as of July of this year, The US has GAINED over 300,000 Manufacturing Jobs since Trump took office....
So, from 300k lost in 8 years and the powers that be told us to just bend over and take it, those jobs were never coming back.., to 300k gained in 2.5 years, and those same nimrods are telling us jobs are never coming back.
Yes, there is little doubt some jobs will never return, but the idea that Trump hasn’t brought manufacturing back is an abject LIE!
Exactly none of the aforementioned countries have nuclear missiles aimed at us or are building blue water navies to threaten our trade routes.
What's not to like about that
High US employment in history, what is this nitwit talking about?
In today’s emerging high tech, highly automated manufacturing environment, skills and productivity are the key and wages, while important, are not the main barrier
And the emergence of fracking has started a revival of American manufacturing independent of any other influence due to reasonable energy costs and the conversion of petrochemical feed stocks from oil based naphtha to low cost natural gas for plastics, pharmaceuticals, fertilizers and other petrochemical based products
This is especially important because the generation of automation is going to be a game changer.
It is vital that as much of the capitol investment in these next generation manufacturing systems take place in the US because whoever controls this technology base will control the future of manufacturing for the 21 st Century
The drain on America has gotten to the point where it has become a national security issue because many process critical materials, components and products are no longer made in the US at all and have no domestic supplier
If there were a sudden disruption in imports suppliers a surprising amount of American products would lack critical raw materials or components and rebuilding US production base could take years
Furthermore, the supply chain logistics of some of the Asian, especially Chinese, products is the stuff of nightmares and constitutes a serious enough risk that supply chain disruptions could put many highly exposed companies at serious risk in the event of disruption.