They should have rolled that banner out at the SuperBowl halftime.
The other issue is no high paying jobs, no ability to sell high dollar products. There can only be so many high paying government jobs which produce Zero value. Wonder why we are 36 Trillion in debt? The libs think we can just tax our way out of debt! People are economically hurting, thankfully Trump came along at the right time!
Palmer Luckey - Superhuman Soldiers, AI Missiles and Exoskeletons in Warzones | SRS #171 — It’s a long one - 3:52:31
America is fortunate. Building construction is not the kind of work you can outsource.
The self-anointed elites sold America out.
In the voluntary cooperation between buyers and sellers in the marketplace free from gov’t interference, not all buyers have to be servants and not all sellers have to be manufacturers.
The Free Market Economy itself creates the Wealth of a Nation and its people (Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations”).
Let America do what it does best and let other nations do what they do best and keep the competition open and free.
The consumer AND the economy wins with the best quality products and the best prices.
If another nation’s industry is done more cost effectively with better quality than America, then let the freaking nation do it and let the American consumer win by buying the best quality merchandise at the best price.
Ok...
Then get the government off the backs of business...
Can’t build a new steel mill without at least 6 dozen environmental permits, 4 dozen impact studies and numerous bribes.
Then come the building permits, pollution controls and so on and so on..
The issue is more and more complex than that.
It is not so much that we should manufacture everything. We should understand what is important for us to manufacture ourseleves, for any number of “national interest” reasons, and that includes secure supply chains for those things we ought to be manufacturing ourselves.
Even that will leave a whole host of things it may not make economic sense for us to merely dictate, somehow, that we should manufacture, just to “have more manufacturing here”.
Into that mix you get into the natural resource requirements we have our own supplies for, and those we do not, and if we do not it then requires trade in order for our supply chain to have them. That can lead to additional decisions that suggest importing something is more benefiticial for our economy, if our own supply of some raw material is such (low) that our economy will spend many times over making something here as opposed to importing it.
Plus, there are TONS of empty factories out there, waiting to be filled, especially in the South.
Plus, there are TONS of empty factories out there, waiting to be filled, especially in the South.
Almost ALL of us here thought that same way 25 years ago.
We had no idea (some did, I’m sure) that it would get so out of control for so long!
We wanted access to the cheapest goods..NO tarriffs...
Times change.
Great countries change with them
THE “SUPPLY CHAIN” PROBLEMS SEEM TO HAVE BEEN QUICKLY FORGOTTEN
Given the current state of the world, with China and the Globalists clearly conspiring to control a global economy to the detriment of America, I think any faith in the traditional “free market” is beyond foolish.
Rather than lean toward a “free market”, I would much rather lean toward Autarky. Let’s see how self-sufficient we can be. It’s a more achievable goal than a “free market” is.
We need all kinds of manufacturing jobs, with out them we are at everyone’s mercy if we have to fight another major war. Without the strong manufacturing base we had during ww2 we would have lost the war.
The motor vehicle business needs to be financially balanced by nation as the US & Canadian auto industry was in my youth.
The US needs to go to a blocked currency like India has. The Russians selling oil to India have been told they can buy Indian goods and services in exchange for that oil.
Recreating manufacturing jobs in Midwestern cities will revive them and help relieve the housing price and homeless problems of US coastal cities.
We can’t continue forever to run federal fiscal deficits to fill the currency drain of trade deficits.
Xi Jinping couldn’t destroy the US economy if he tried.
Nothing they make using their slave or near slave labor can’t be made anywhere else.
There are things made in US, Taiwan, Japan, Europe that are basically sole source, can’t be made anywhere else without tech transfer.
Nothing like that is made in China.
China is simply a reservoir of labor that’s the chiicoms made a deal with the deep state to allow to be exploited.
the bottom line is this... either more money is flowing into America making us richer, or more money is flowing out of America making us poorer.