Posted on 01/09/2016 7:23:10 PM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
It's a good thing Trump wants to rebuild our manufacturing base, because it truly has taken a hit. We've turned from a nation of builders to burger flippers.
To put in perspective just how bad things have gotten - there were more Americans employed in manufacturing in the months leading up to Pearl Harbor than there are today, despite the fact that the population then was a fraction of what it is today.
In that time, there was 1 person employed in manufacturing for every 10.6 people in the overall population compared to 1 person employed in government for every 26.1 people in the overall population.
Oh how things have changed. As CNS News reported:
Those employed by government in the United States in August of this year outnumbered those employed in the manufacturing sector by almost 1.8 to 1, according to data published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
There were 21,995,000 employed by federal, state and local government in the United States in August, according to BLS. By contrast, there were only 12,329,000 employed in the manufacturing sector.
The 2015 Federal budget spends an unprecedented $3.7 trillion which leaves us with a deficit of over half a trillion dollars.
Trump's plan to restore the manufacturing base consists of placing tariffs on Chinese goods and reducing our relatively high corporate tax rate which incentivizes businesses to set up overseas.
There's a huge opportunity to kill two birds with one stone here. Shrink the government, and when people ask where those former government employees are going to work we'll have some nice manufacturing jobs waiting for them.
(Excerpt) Read more at allenbwest.com ...
Oh? Have you really done the math or are you ignoring what is probably only 20 miles away?
I live in a nice quiet county. You may live in terror of hordes of welfare slum dwellers descending on you but I don't.
You live in island of ignorance... your state pays nothing for damage and subsidy drain caused by welfare slummery?
An evil need not be your caricatured “TERROR” to be a very real grief.
Oooh, I love that one!
The only math that is verifiable is the fact that the price of my imported goods will go up if a tariff is enacted. All other figures are wishful thinking and hyperbole.
Wishful thinking? Go to your state capital and ask its welfare budget. Ask its crime stats.
You are vainly trying the no man is an island pretense. Never worked, never did, especially when in a country of shared assets.
No I thought I'd made it clear by now I'm not a Trump supporter.
You are the very personification of those who do not complain if the hole is not in your end of the boat.
I can’t do anything about invincible ignorance however. If you keep it up you “win” but it is a share in hell (on earth, off earth, in some wise) you win.
One does not need to vote for the fellow to care about shipping jobs out of the land wholesale. You are full of more egotism than Trump ever showed, however.
Wouldn’t it be nice to see “Made in the U.S. again???
Should be working to get the multi-million workers back to work again !!!
To that end, I agree.
Now, doing it in reality these days...
I hear ya.
I hope you arevright.
However there are a lot of foreign-made items in the higher categories ascwell. There are more foreign-made tractors, I’d wager, like Kubota. A quick google shows Deere has some affiliations in China and Pakistan.
Then there is furniture and such. we are remodeling and there are more vanities made in China than here. Hard to believe it’s cost-effective with the shipping.
Wouldn’t it be nice to see “Made in the U.S. again???
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