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Janet Yellen: American Manufacturing Is a ‘Pipe Dream,’ May Not Be a ‘Desirable Goal’
Breitbart ^ | 04/14/2025 | Olivia Rondeau

Posted on 04/14/2025 1:01:23 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Former President Joe Biden’s U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen blasted President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Monday, saying the return of American manufacturing is just a “pipe dream” that may not even be a “desirable goal.”

Yellen, who chaired the Federal Reserve from 2014 to 2018 prior to heading the Treasury from 2021 to 2025, took to CNBC’s Squawk Box to spew her anti-American rhetoric:

Things have been just chaotic,” the former secretary said. “The reciprocal tariffs put on and paused … This is really creating an environment in which households and businesses feel paralyzed by the uncertainty about what’s going to happen — it makes planning almost impossible.”

At one point in the interview, she revealed that she does not believe in “American manufacturing”:

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: american; antiamericanism; desirable; goal; janet; manufacturing; obama; pipedream; redchina; tds; yellen
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To: isthisnickcool
she’s never made a damn thing in her life.

Needs to start, and go make everyone a sammich.
21 posted on 04/14/2025 1:19:47 PM PDT by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

She’s always wrong and is doubling down on Marxist lies.


22 posted on 04/14/2025 1:22:31 PM PDT by JerseyDvl (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Cannot think of a single “JOB’ in the USA she actually might be qualified for.

NOT ONE


23 posted on 04/14/2025 1:27:00 PM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: XRdsRev

CANNOT CONTROL IF BEING AUTOMATED ELSEWHERE


24 posted on 04/14/2025 1:27:40 PM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

also a dwarf broad that bowed 2x to Xi Jinping.


25 posted on 04/14/2025 1:29:02 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Janet Yellen. Probably the absolute worst Sec of Treasury we have ever had.


26 posted on 04/14/2025 1:30:56 PM PDT by frogjerk
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Perhaps her ilk (and elite training) also thinks that the idea of our Constitutionally Limited Government and our separation in 1776 from European royalty (aka Elites) who thought they were our “Betters” - May Not Be a Desirable Goal.


27 posted on 04/14/2025 1:32:03 PM PDT by epluribus_2 (!)
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To: larrytown
Needs to start, and go make everyone a sammich.

You don't want to eat that sammich. It would be FUBAR.

28 posted on 04/14/2025 1:35:03 PM PDT by frogjerk
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To: epluribus_2

This misinformed elderly impaired has been should have done good during her career...she did NOTHING good. What a loser...hit the bottle and hug your many cats, you freak. I wonder if she has figured out as yet how inflation works? LOL! What a fool.


29 posted on 04/14/2025 1:35:22 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: XRdsRev

“...it is uncertain how much of a benefit it is to have manufacturers of cheap junk set up shop back here.”

Why do you jump to the cheap junk nonsense? I mean, of all the options you have to choose from to say the fool is partially right, that is about the most nonsensical. No one on any level of either party requests that cheap junk manufacturing be moved here.

Those corporations moving hundreds of billions of dollars into the U S are not going to manufacture cheap junk.


30 posted on 04/14/2025 1:35:51 PM PDT by odawg
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To: clashfan

Where will the workers come from? As a small business owner, I’ve discovered everyone wants a job but fewer want to work.


31 posted on 04/14/2025 1:36:04 PM PDT by griswold3 (Truth Beauty and Goodness)
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To: clashfan
"A nation puts itself at risk if depends on outsourced manufactured goods. Wars have been lost due to exposure to this risk."

Britain has never learned that lesson even after two World Wars. Had we not help supply them with the war machines needed to defend themselves in WWII, and had we not entered that war, they'd be speaking German right now.

32 posted on 04/14/2025 1:37:23 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

If Bilbo Baggins underwent gender reassignment surgery …


33 posted on 04/14/2025 1:38:09 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("The gallows wait for martyrs whose papers are in order.")
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“Janet Yellen blasted President Donald Trump’s tariffs”
TDS Orange man bad 101
Trump could cure cancer and democrats would flay him for putting oncologists out of work.


34 posted on 04/14/2025 1:38:22 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: rlmorel

How can it be a “pipe dream” to re-create something that existed for a century before it was destroyed by globalist sell-outs?


35 posted on 04/14/2025 1:38:44 PM PDT by brookwood (51 Intelligence Agents Say Global Warming Is An Existential Crisis)
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To: rlmorel

How can it be a “pipe dream” to re-create something that existed for a century before it was destroyed by globalist sell-outs?


36 posted on 04/14/2025 1:38:44 PM PDT by brookwood (51 Intelligence Agents Say Global Warming Is An Existential Crisis)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

She says, in effect: “Just like me, the country is cooked at this point. No point trying to save it.”


37 posted on 04/14/2025 1:39:08 PM PDT by 9YearLurker (\)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

What a hag.


38 posted on 04/14/2025 1:41:52 PM PDT by yldstrk (Nothing like the truth)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The worst years of my business were the Biden years. And I’m not the only one. And Yellen... Well. That explains a lot.


39 posted on 04/14/2025 1:51:37 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Janet and her brain dead buddy Joe Biden doubled energy prices is less. than a. year. What a bunch of fools. CNBC should have scalded her in the show this morning. Nope...Kid Gloves........


40 posted on 04/14/2025 1:55:06 PM PDT by blackberry1
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