Posted on 01/13/2022 11:23:58 AM PST by blam
America’s progressives can’t give-up our dependence on China for so many items, because changing supply-chains, returning manufacturing, etc... would destroy Democrat-left-progressive rule.
According to CTH, we’re already expected to have an acceleration inflation to start on the 15th due to all those truck drivers losing their job. And then we have the ChiComs doing their best to push us along, but it’s hard to believe they would voluntarily nuke their own economy as well. Then again, with EverGreen, maybe they figure it’s all screwed up anyway, might as well force the collapse and blame it on the bug, and take out the West at the same time!
bttt
Prepare to be shocked when you soon discover that China has been exporting more than just cheap, plastic toys.
Prepper ping
Yes, they have. But we should recover without them. We dont need cheap toys, cheap tools, cheap electronics, knock off optics, compromised computer chips, or most anything else from them.
I ordered a new heat pump for the house yesterday. it will be here tomorrow. From Ohio to Oklahoma.
Supply chain problems? Not on this item.
What is the real truth?
Exactly.
Most politicians are heavyly invested in China.
But the article is forever long when the answer is in one sentence: Is it more important to have a cheap source for essential goods or is national security more important?
And the answer is either yes or no.
Aftermarket auto parts are all made in china now, even the 40 year old brand names.
We would still get by without them. JMO
“America’s progressives can’t give-up our dependence on China for so many items, because changing supply-chains, returning manufacturing, etc... would destroy Democrat-left-progressive rule”
The highest rate of offshoring and shutting down of US factories to China happened under the George W. years. I remember Rush and Hannity praising cheap goods from China.
I do not know a single liberal who wants to buy from China.
It is the elites and billionaires of both parties who want to keep trading with China. They do not give a hoot about the American worker.
IN a Bloomberg poll in October, 73% of American companies said they plan to continue their busines in China and I cannot remember the exact figure but 60 some percent plan on increasing their production in China.
Both parties have sold us out.
Many of our meds, ingredients and med supplies are manufactured there. Packaging as well.
I’d prefer the chinese have nothing to do with any meds I might have to take.
Today under the current MBA business models all manufacturing should that required lots of manual labor should be outsourced to countries with the lowest labor rates, unless very high skills are required (more on that later).
Another foundation of the “modern” business model is “just in time inventory control” so that a minimum amount of business capital is tied up in inventory. Up until Covid, the days where “stock out” lost opportunity profits were considered were gone for most manufacturing, with the exception of strike induced shortages. The idea was that a good manufacturing model required multiple vendors for each part as a way of preventing stock outs.
What the “modern business model” now needs to include is global disruptions of the supply chain. Manufacturers like major automobile companies now want things like computer chip manufacturers located within the same country that the assembly occurs.
Another less talked about problem that will be solved has to do with labor. Many manufacturers are now reconsidering outsourcing labor to other countries with cheaper labor prices, when lost opportunity profits are soaring because of Covid. However, we are seeing a complete melt down of the US education system during Covid and the inability to educate the workforce. Online learning for the most part is not working for manufacturing or technical jobs. It is across the board, K-12, Community colleges, technical schools, or universities. Modern manufacturing requires high levels of STEM skills to handle the robotic manufacturing maintenance as well as the quality control statistical analysis. The US education system is not supplying the needed skill sets to expand production within the US. This means that older workers with those skill sets are becoming critical. Unfortunately, older workers are not willing to put up with the political crap being handed out right now by business and government (vaccine mandates, social distancing, limits on on-call and overtime work, etc.
I see the US at a turning point. If we can get our education system turned around, get business to reinvest in US manufacturing and get business (and the stock market) to place a high value on lost opportunity stock out profits (aka brand loyalty), then this could all turn out for the best. However, that is a big set of assumptions that politicians seem to have no desire to tackle.
Same.
we do need medicines....
India makes meds and other things for us, too. Makes me very nervous for the 3rd/4th world to do that.
Your picture speaks a thousand words in more ways than one. As a father of a girl I can tell you all those dolls are made in China. As a packaging engineer I can tell you those toys are in the most unsustainable, polluting packaging you can imagine. Lots of microplastics to mess up the environment for centuries.
Maybe there could be an upside to supply chain issues...we invest in additive manufacturing (eg 3D printing) and produce locally.
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