That’s why they left in the first place. They can’t sell millions of items for low prices if they’re paying wages that meet the cost of living in America to the people making those products.
The Mar. 20 The Weekly Show podcast convinced me of this. We don’t NEED to bring back all manufacturing. What we need is child care and health care for ALL workers.
This is the part that drives me crazy. Trump’s utopia is literally regressing our economy to the 50s where the economic order for more of a function of unions and high taxes, neither of which exist today
Regardless, the regime and its media mouthpieces will sell it as "high paying manufacturing jobs" returning thanks to Dear Leader and the poor brainwashed MAGATs will believe it.
Never mind that tariffs don't create industry... They only work when the competing domestic industry already exists.
Without the already existing domestic industry, tariffs just kill off the market for the goods, eliminating any incentive to invest in the industry domestically.
Labor costs are more than just wages. As the Human Resources weenies call it it's a full "compensation package". That means wages and Healthcare. If you have National Healthcare, you have a lower "Compensation Package". And the Healthcare part means you and your immediate family.
China especially has the ability to construct factories at warp speed due to massive state controls over every aspect of life. We don’t have that and if we tried to replicate it there would be massive social revolt.
The bosses are too greedy to have manufacturing here. They want massive profits therefore need cheap labour and parts to manufacture their products. The only way to satisfy their greed is to offshore their manufacturing. Narcissist Greed is the reason manufacturing went overseas to begin with.
Smoot Hawley tariffs as high as 60%+ for imported shoes have been collected for almost 100 years, all the while the American footwear industry and jobs moved completely overseas.
This is only one example of why this tariff tantrum will not bring back those jobs.
Let’s not forget the avalanche of layoffs that will start this month as companies are forced to shrink in reaction to precipitous drops in consumer demand.
A recession is now inevitable. We should be concerned about a prolonged depression.
I’ve never crossed their threshold. The taxpayers subsidies this billionaire family because they don’t pay a living wage. A huge percentage of these workers get government assistance. Why would you ever shop there?
Don't worry if you are unemployed or due to lose your social benefits or your job due to the new tariffs. His serene eminence does not stop thinking of you.
Friend on the train was telling me about her daughter, who sells cars. Federal layoffs were causing people to cancel orders or return cars. There's a multiplier effect with government jobs. They do good for America and the private sector.
Yup. Trump, like other Republicans before him, gave even more tax incentives for companies to move jobs out of the US in 2017. He knows that tariffs won't bring them back.
The damage can still be mitigated. The midterms will go along way, but that’s too far away. We need someone to shake the GOP members of congress NOW, to wake up and do the right things. 😀
This is what this current administration does not understand. djt is living in a fictional reality that consists of being driven around his golf course while he is burning down the houses of all the rest of us. Tariffs are not a viable solution it will create a recession that they can’t correct.
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Already started planning for that in December 2024. When you have the Proj 2025 published book and sub rosa plan with the architects of such within the govt then the dictatorship has its players in place. Vought-visual Godfather; Trump- Penman; Musk-Hacketman, DOGE-Hitmen; Congress Lap Rats
Didn’t one of the cabinet members mention that jobs would come back with automation? The joke is on MAGAts who still believe tariffs will bring their jobs. Are they now robots? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Maga people on Substack are so excited about what the tariffs are going to do. They really do believe that there are going to be so many great jobs from this and that they will be getting rich.
A global minimum wage to balance costs. If Capitalists implemented this American workers would make $2 a day instead of other workers making $15 a hour.
You forget forced labor in labor camps for migrants, inmates in for profit prisons, child labor. It’s for a reason that it’s called the land of unlimited possibilities.
In the old days, news stations would explain what and how tariffs would impact Americans as well as other countries, the worse thing about doncons fascist reign is loss of freedom of the press, freedom of speech
they think it will force companies to come back to america and create jobs there. this isnt gonna happen. all its gonna do is cause big corps to raise prices and put the small businesses out of business. we will go poor we will go hungry and we will die. but hey at least the rich get richer right?
Trump hasn't been president for even 3-months and he has already created a stock market crash nearly on par with COVID and 2008. The 2008 crash was the direct result of deregulation. This time it's because some voters believed putting the master of bankruptcies and a coup was somehow patriotic.
Facebook comments are a total shit show. People without even a GED trying to push economic theory to justify why it's ok that GOP and Trump wiped out 10% of their 401k in three days
AMERICANS CALL GOPs Congress Members—They’re REFUSING TO HOLD A CONGRESSIONAL VOTE —Bc. TRUMP WILL LOSE—HIS ILLEGAL POWER GRAB AND ILLEGAL TARIFFS—COLLAPSING U.S./GLOBAL ECONOMIES INTO RECESSION!!
GOPs Congress—Has The Authority To Stop Trump’s Self Created Economic Collapse!!
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…this must be spread far and wide. Peter Navarro’s expert on tariff’s is nonexistent…it is an anagram of his own name. Here…at about 6 minutes. https://youtu.be/MJbZCbBLqkk?...
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The oligarchs won‘t profit either in my opinion. They mostly got filthy rich by selling their stuff world wide and the tariffs will damage that big time. Plus the humongous loss in American reputation will cost them unimaginable amounts of money.
That leaves imbeciles …
Magats are clearly brain donors , JFC ! They voted to burn their own country to the ground . Maybe time for Voter IQ? You gotta know not to stick the fork in a toaster !
Imbecile believer
I think that word is necessary now a days
The trump flags on tower Hill look a bit tattered on waving it’s their Custer Last Stand mood outlook
You know Custer looked at his brazen life as righteous
Just like Trump on tariffs & now DT to hold onto his grimace
His sock it to you
Gas in my area is now $3.05 yesterday it was $2.95 & eggs are over $8.00 a dozen so my question to felon is it's way past day 1 so when can we expect prices to go down??
You did promise that on day 1 I'm waiting
No, low skill jobs are not returning to America. Jobs that can be done by machines will be.
Paying someone $30/hour to attach part A to part B is not in the cards. Even if by some legislative fiat, those jobs did return, the good produced would be unaffordable.
I have red hat coworkers that still support the 🍊🤡💩. I ask them everyday to let me know if it’s painful enough for them yet. Sadly those mf’s seem to really really be into that weird type of S&M.
They are out there. There is ALWAYS an asshole in the crowd. Out of the THOUSANDS I saw yesterday, 6 or 7 MAGAts. The same for my friends protesting in other cities. A drop in the bucket.
Data centers are being constructed RIGHT NOW next to power plants for super AI that will be coupled with industrial automation.
There will be no human factory jobs.
THAT'S THE PLAN
Explaining this to my right-wing extremist grandpa who runs a small business has me two steps from putting him in a chokehold. I just don't understand how he thinks any of this is to his benefit. 🤦🏻♀️
We don’t need economy experts telling us firing appx 1 mn workers & corps firing 50 mn more & tariffs/taxes on working Americans is BAD! Give us data of how RICH billionaires R getting from trump! @mcuban.bsky.social and trump is ERASING Amer cultural & ARCHIVES forever! How isTHAT helping ANY 1?
1) Trump crashes the market on purpose 2) his rich friends buy up all the stocks at dollar prices 3) trump cancels the tariffs because the “emergency is over" 4) market goes back up 5) his friends richer than ever. He will then be hailed a hero for removing the tariffs and improving the stock market
Imbeciles, can guarantee all the shop & field guys at my hubby union strong HVAC shop in santa maria all voted for 4547 but my hubby and they all are still head/cocktail deep in 4547 FElon ass.... imbeciles racist sexist etc
GOP voters that believe these tariffs are going to help them are completely cut off from reality. They will believe any lie and any spin. How did they get so conned? Sad. Bring back education!!!!!
“If you still believe these reckless tariffs will somehow make you better off in the long run, you’re either an oligarch or an imbecile” But I repeat myself ~~Twain
I don’t know any plutocrats or fascists personally. I only see them in the WH, but I unfortunately know some fucking stupid people. The difference between the stupid people is they honestly don’t know they are stupid. The plutocrats and fascists know they are greedy plutocrats and fucking fascists!
Listening to Ben and Michael Cohen on this, will take 5 years for a fully assembled timber production and 10 years for a car assembly plant with overseas parts required ffs
The whole preposterous idea ignores the fact that automation is coming and what we really need to be talking seriously about is a living wage, as more and more of these jobs disappear. Instead, what they're talking about is indentured servitude and demanding we be grateful for that.
So fucking true. Some dude parked in a handicapped parking place and I freaked out and started telling him how stupid he was but I was following him too close before I got to this parking place. So everything was my fault, I'm an amputee, handicapped,but he just parked there b/c he had a pickup.
The average American has a median retirement savings of $65,000 verses the oligarchs hundreds of billions of dollars. So when we all lose 50% or more because he crashes the economy - they can swoop in & buy everything for pennies on the dollar. Simply put, that’s how they will own us.
When the 54% tariffs on Chinese goods comes into play, I’m curious about the amount that Chinese exporters and US retailers will reduce their prices to avoid passing the entire increase on to American consumers. I’m betting on “little to none.”
In fact, it could be worse. When supply chain… (1/2)
…issues and high inflation hit us, many retailers used it as an excuse to bump prices even HIGHER than necessary to offset the new costs. Since COVID, grocery stores, for example, have boosted prices by 10-20% many times—presumably to see how high they could go before we refused to buy certain items
The poor dumb magats are still waiting for Reagans trickle down and now they fall for this. It's like when a religious end times cult leader predicts dooms day that never happens and then just makes up a reason and changes the date and the dummies fall for it every time.
That encompasses the whole of the GOP right now. The difference being that the Oligarchs will get richer in the end, but the imbeciles will lose their retirement funds and their kid’s inheritance.
Ron Vera declared all of those "pro tariff" rallies were impressive and a win for the administration. 10's stormed Wall Street demanding more losses. Chants of "We want pain, for no gain" were cried out as they marched.
You should have heard sen barrasco sing the praises of his felonious orange god’s tariffs… it was truly something to behold. Nobody crosses this awful person!!!! They can’t admit this is awful!!!
Yep.
Only your trade goes through America.
Out here we have 193 other countries we can trade with.
The insular perspective will crush your economic force.
The crazy part of this policy is they all know it doesn’t work but since king Trump decided to do it, they are all scrambling to come up with a defense to justify it. There is no strategy, even Trump can’t articulate what the plan is.
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American companies moved those jobs overseas for a reason.
Any manufacturing jobs that do come back will be automated immediately, otherwise the manufacturer risks pricing themselves out of the market.
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Those jobs were moved overseas to get away from US workers who wanted high pay, benefits, safe conditions, etc.
Corporations *still* wsnt to stay away from that.
Who the heck is clamoring for bad paying, back breaking, boring dumb jobs that robots do now?
Biden had invested in the new industrialized workforce and all the orange dork needed to do was leave it all alone for awhile!
#KrasnovHasBeenAcivated
and factory building is way more expensive because of increased labor/materials costs in the usa too
flexibility at scale is also a huge issue, usa mfg. cannot turn on a dime like china can
Any department in the government, the Republicans want to privatize it.
They run factories at a few dollars per day. We have a $7.25/hr minimum wage, which is considered unlivable by most objective standards.
It ain’t happening.
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Without the already existing domestic industry, tariffs just kill off the market for the goods, eliminating any incentive to invest in the industry domestically.
1. Reduce employee numbers
2. Maintain lower wages
Six hundred percent china
Two hundred Europe.
This is only one example of why this tariff tantrum will not bring back those jobs.
A recession is now inevitable. We should be concerned about a prolonged depression.
On the first Saturday after the first of the month?
That's a huge drop jn consuming.
This isn't the same global economic environment it was 60 years ago. Most of the jobs that went overseas are never coming back.
Trump thinks he can apply 19th century economics to a 21st century economy.
Trade deficit was never a concern.
People need to get it through their thick skulls that the extremely wealthy around Trump have no loyalty to America.
Their wealth shields them from the consequences of selling out America.
Trump would sell the entire US landmass for profit if he could.
Speaking of which, has she lost her job yet?
…..now if only the press will cover them….
I voted for the happy prosecutor. 😀
Thanks MAGATS & idiots who did not vote.
There's nothing they won't let him do
So to even begin manufacturing here the capital cost just went up 50%.
If you answer yes, then we are already in a recession. The reporting will catch up in a month or two.
I believe we are already there.
What an insane way to go down.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/world/europe/trade-trump-tariffs-brexit.html
You are either an oligarch
Or just plain racist
Probably it’s more of the second one?
GOPs Congress—Has The Authority To Stop Trump’s Self Created Economic Collapse!!
Don’t buy from oligarchic companies.
Donate to democratic organizations.
Both.
It breaks my heart that it comes with the misfortune of such tragic suffering. But said suffering has always been the catalyst for REAL revolution.
That leaves imbeciles …
I think that word is necessary now a days
The trump flags on tower Hill look a bit tattered on waving it’s their Custer Last Stand mood outlook
You know Custer looked at his brazen life as righteous
Just like Trump on tariffs & now DT to hold onto his grimace
His sock it to you
You did promise that on day 1 I'm waiting
Being prepared and ready to act - seems better than not being so at this point in time.
https://medium.com/@aletheisthenes/on-april-20th-2025-the-united-states-will-cross-the-point-of-no-return-0aecac04cfc3
No, low skill jobs are not returning to America. Jobs that can be done by machines will be.
Paying someone $30/hour to attach part A to part B is not in the cards. Even if by some legislative fiat, those jobs did return, the good produced would be unaffordable.
They received a red hat
The rest of us got nothing
Done deal what’s the issue?
but I repeat myself
There will be no human factory jobs.
THAT'S THE PLAN
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/06/trump-tariff-war-markets-economic-shock.html
are lining up 20 deep
“Tariffs are going to lead to free trade”
It’s literally unbelievable
This is the same logic as "cutting taxes will lead to MORE tax revenue because of the huge economic boost" which also never really happens.
Trumplandia: a place where fact are forbidden and questions are NOT allowed.
“Tariffs Don’t Work”!
🔥🔥🇺🇸🔥🔥
#democracyisdying but we WILL bring it back!
My favorite sign:
Oh. Right.
In fact, it could be worse. When supply chain… (1/2)
In completely unrelated news, April 20th is hitlers birthday.
Only your trade goes through America.
Out here we have 193 other countries we can trade with.
The insular perspective will crush your economic force.
AND THIS IS THE RESULTS OF ONLY TWO DAYS.
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