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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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!
A country manufactures or it dies. There is no such thing as a service economy.
Former”
and failed.
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.
Yellen is still yellin
Because her head is swellin
Like a ripe watermellin
“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.
Sadly most anti tariff Free Traitors™ on Free Republic agree with her.
You are making that up.
icclearly aka Birdbrain, you are a Free Traitor™ so can you answer that question for us?
This is how out-of-touch autocrats end up on guillotines.
Fixed it.
>> 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.
As long as it is subject to the 10% tariff then I am good with that for now.
Wages will go up, wait wages are flat or falling....
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!
“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.
Bringing back manufacturing jobs is not a desirable goal? Unreal. It’s more desirable that people be on welfare and smoke meth?
Even better!!!
I was correcting post 13.
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