Posted on 12/03/2021 4:51:11 AM PST by T Ruth
Former Ohio Treasurer and candidate for U.S. Senate Josh Mandel said Thursday on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow that both Republican and Democrat members of Congress have “failed” with regards to China, and that the problems Americans are seeing today prove the importance of former President Donald Trump’s “America First” agenda.
“I think what we’re seeing now with the problem with shipping and logistics and getting goods to America, it accentuates the Trump America First agenda and his focus within that policy agenda on manufacturing and making things here in the United States,” Mandel told Marlow.
The Senate candidate added that “the problem in politics today” is that “you have all these politicians in Washington, Democrat and Republican, who are thinking in terms of 24-hour news cycles and election cycles, while Xi [Jinping] and the Chinese, they’re thinking in terms of decades and generations and centuries.”
“And we need senators and leaders in this country who are willing to think long term, who are willing to think strategically, and who’ve got the backbone and the intestinal fortitude to take on the Chinese Communist Party,” Mandel affirmed.
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“I think what we’re seeing now with the problem with shipping and logistics and getting goods to America...”
I know Trump wasn’t emperor and didn’t get everything he wanted, but after four years of renegotiating trade agreements and reducing regulation, it was awfully easy for the democrats to convince our population not to work.
Mandel is missing a large part of the puzzle. If cheap goods from China were disrupted, why can’t we make them and move them here? The reason is that we can’t get anyone to do it here!
The reason is that we can’t get anyone to do it here = The need for protective/retaliatory import tariffs.
GloBULList. Go away.
I’m wondering if this is deliberate...slowly getting us use to empty shelves, aka Venezuela, Cuba.
Made in the USA bump.
I don’t remember empty shelves when the USA made everything domestically.
That is total and utter BS.
The problem is that punishing globalist policies and regulations are applied unilaterally on US and not China.
We could compete just fine if not for globalists like you.
We don't have any. And aren't likely to get any soon.
I’m in NC and shudder every time I go by closed furniture factories and textile mills.
We could compete just fine if not for globalists like you.
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LOL! I got called a globalist twice in this thread.
Perhaps I’m not being concise enough.
If we had major supply disruptions under Trump, we may have had some temporary shortages, but since we didn’t have (an intentional) labor shortage then, our domestic production would have increased as a result of it.
the globalists didn’t want supply disruptions from China and elsewhere during Trump. Now they do. Now they pay americans to sit on their asses, because they can
It takes time to build and staff a factory -- especially with all kinds of regulations, permits, required studies, etc. The kinds of things that President Trump was reducing.
No country can lead the world with a work force unwilling to work.
There must be a major incentive to work for people to do so.
If people can do well without working, a country will not survive the inflation from paying people who don’t work.
LOL, I’m cool with it, as long as unions aren’t to again allowed to hold our manufacturing hostage.
CORRECT! We’d not of won WW2 with out our manufacturing being USA MADE. And a worker is worth the quality of his work.
My 50 yr old single son, works sick, hurt, tired, 14 hr days, 6 days a week as a Manager in a Blue city/county majority black, can’t find, keep workers, most can’t pass the DRUG SCREENING. His son is 19 won’t hold a job long, raised by his Junkie, crazy mom who the court gave custody to.
I shouldn’t have called you a globalist - but I do think you are missing the big picture in all this:
China gets away with using slave labor, dangerous and inhumane working conditions, environmental pollution and harm, currency manipulation, low quality and safety standards - all of which drive their production costs so low that no decent society can compete.
How do they get away with it?
All of the treaties, sanctions, tariffs, and other trade agreements and mutual defense agreements which protect ports and shipping lanes - all are lopsided to the point of absurdity - in favor of China, and against the West - especially the US.
President Trump was addressing this inequity for four years until the Biden administration (owned and operated by the CCP) began quickly reversing everything he had done.
Who is doing all of this? Answer: Large multinational corporations and oligarchies who do not benefit from a strong USA. We call them “globalists” - they hate Trump’s America First agenda more than anything in the world.
What’s driving this problem has been a gradual breakdown in one particular area of the supply chain: the interface between shippers/receivers and third-party trucking firms. The trucking industry is being bogged down by inefficiencies in the loading/unloading process at the customers’ loading docks.
Just to show you how absurd this has gotten: The trucking industry incessantly whines about a “shortage of drivers,” and yet I am seeing more and more evidence indicating that the average long-haul truck and driver are very UNDER-UTILIZED these days.
Only 9% of manufacturing work in the USA is done by union labor. So don’t worry, that can’t happen.
I thought the reshoring was well underway.
“Only 9% of manufacturing work in the USA is done by union labor. So don’t worry, that can’t happen.”
LOL, it will be MUCH MORE than 9% once we’re forced to produce at home...just as it was until Reagan started his union busting.
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