Janet Yellen: American Manufacturing Is a ‘Pipe Dream,’ May Not Be a ‘Desirable Goal’

Breitbart ^ | 04/14/2025 | Olivia Rondeau

[Justa]

Yeah Janet, I guess that’s what the tariffs help do. Make domestic manufacturing more << Affordable >> for US consumers. As opposed to allowing foreign nations to tariff US manufactured goods and dumping their goods in the US, making US products << less affordable >>. You bought off on that for 30 years now stfu and support America you anti-American sellout!

[Vision]

It is a disgrace this person has been in a high level position affecting policy the way she has. She has eroded Americas way of life through inflation and I'm sure other areas.

A country manufactures or it dies. There is no such thing as a service economy.

[gibsonguy]

Former”

and failed.

[XRdsRev]

Companies will manufacture cheap junk here if it is economically feasible. Cheap junk is a multi billion dollar industry, just ask Walmart and Dollar General. Last time I checked “cheap junk” was not exempt from tariffs.

[antidemoncrat]

Yellen is still yellin
Because her head is swellin
Like a ripe watermellin

[odawg]

“Cheap junk is a multi billion dollar industry, just ask Walmart and Dollar General. Last time I checked “cheap junk” was not exempt from tariffs.”

If cheap junk is what people want and is made here, then the money and the jobs stay here. That is what tariffs are about and what Alexander Hamilton wrote about.

And if cheap junk is a multi billion dollar industry, then what is wrong or immoral about it?

Not everyone holds to the lofty standards you obviously adhere to.

[central_va]

Sadly most anti tariff Free Traitors™ on Free Republic agree with her.

[central_va]

You are making that up.

[central_va]

If it’s not desirable to have manufacturing, then why are other nations competing against us for manufacturing jobs, and why have these nations been protecting their own industries and manufacturing using tariffs against us?

icclearly aka Birdbrain, you are a Free Traitor™ so can you answer that question for us?

[central_va]

This is how out-of-touch autocrats end up on guillotines.

[central_va]

It is not necessary that a nation manufacture every thing it consumes but it is much much better if they do.

Fixed it.

[Nervous Tick]

>> then by all means let’s start hand painting clay pots fired from clay dug by hand

Like Ruidoso hippies! Peace, man. Don’t bogart that joint.

[central_va]

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

As long as it is subject to the 10% tariff then I am good with that for now.

[central_va]

Wages will go up, wait wages are flat or falling....

[Nervous Tick]

You some kinda Christian Nationalist or somethin’?

Imagine there’s no countries
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace

The globalist wet dream... they make stuff “over there”, and “over here”, we do entertainment, sportball, and financial speculation, and put up windmills to fight climate change, and what could go wrong? Because OneWorld gubmint!

[central_va]

There are three ways to create wealth, mine it, make it or grow it.

[odawg]

“As long as it is subject to the 10% tariff then I am good with that for now.”

They won’t be since they will manufacture in the United States.

[MAGA2017]

Bringing back manufacturing jobs is not a desirable goal? Unreal. It’s more desirable that people be on welfare and smoke meth?

[central_va]

They won’t be since they will manufacture in the United States.

Even better!!!

[central_va]

I was correcting post 13.