Even if all these manufacturers were forced to move here, we aren’t set up -it would take years to build the factories. And of course everything would be a lot more expensive
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All manufacturers worldwide are automated for over 10 years now… the jobs in manufacturing etc are not there , nothing is coming home to America now or in the future.
Building robotics to make the products , that’s the business of the future.
It’s all just a giant pump and dump. He doesn’t care what happens as long as he makes his billions in office via bribes, foreign “investments”, etc. It’s the continuation of his entire career.
But one thing... There will be a lot of empty buildings of those who went out of business because no one could afford buying anything that wasn't a necessity.
I think he's trying to intentionally. On the campaign trail, he and Elmo said something about going from our current currency to crypto. I thought they couldn't be serious. But now?🤔
Not to mention EVERYTHING is automated. China has revolutionized production of ALL GOODS. No human is sewing our clothes are screwing screws into iPhones
yeah and the thing is that maybe works on a scale where you're a jumped up mobbed up slumlord and you're strong arming a handful of building developers.
sadly even seems to work with at least a solid chunk of top universities, law firms and journalism organizations.
Higher automation costs, higher construction costs, higher raw material costs, higher training costs since we are dumbing down education = high investment to recover. With all the chaos and uncertainty, would you invest in American manufacturing right now?
And, because your government is fighting against private sector unionization, the lower-paid workers would be less invested and would turn out an inferior product.
No bigger indictment of this administration’s utter lack of business acumen than not understanding the process of scaling an industry.
It’s almost like the guy whose resume consists of signing his name, looking at fabric swatches, and bankrupting casinos doesn’t know a GD about business.
Ironically, Biden was bringing jobs here for EVs, batteries, & high-tech chipmaking. Clearly this is not their goal or they would not be trying to destroy it.
And they would only pay meanial wages ! Remember outsourcing jobs like automotive manufacturing thry never were REPLACED by new auto manufacturing the reason cars were so high they claimed was labor,insurance cost ,today cars are even higher than before oursourcing !
These Tariffs have nothing to do with more manufacturing. It's a scam to make deals with countries, companies and industries. He wants them grovel so he can berate, embarrass, own, bribe and humiliate them and claim he saved us. It's all a grift. He cares nothing for America or its people.
Do you think even Mia Farrow could afford American made jeans, shirts, shoes? We tried that & Americans will not work in sweat houses 4 minimum wage. Just wait without migrants the food products R going 2 sky rocket. Have any of U white skags ever picked a quart basket of strawberries? Back breaking
This could change in a minute if the Republican Senate and House would only wake up. Do they think they are in power forever? Do they think there will be no more elections?
but unless EVERY SINGLE MATERIAL used in the production of an item is not sourced in 'merca and components of the end product have to be imported, you are not going to see a reduction in price . . . the prices of the end product will be raised to compensate for the high price of the materials used
They will rely on kids working in factories since they are going to implode the educational system. Why don’t think state legislators are rolling back protections for child labor?
Corporate greed caused companies to move overseas for cheap labor. They will not move back to America as long as there is cheap labor overseas. If companies decide to build American factories, they will need to pay a living wage. Most companies will wait it out and hope for the tariffs to go away.
Exactly! Prices and unemployment are the only things that will increase. Businesses aren’t going to invest in factories here because this idiot is too unstable for investors to determine if the factories would be profitable.
Where is the incentive? no guarantees with this administration it fluctuates daily… Plus the cost of labor versus other countries, not sure they want to spend that additional money when they can take advantage of other countries
Companies can't find enough employees now. And we ship workers out of the country every day. I really don't get their reasoning. Factory work is hard and many couldn't handle a day at it.
That’s his “explanation” for the tariffs, is to bring back manufacturing. What he’s really doing is holding the world hostage. His little ego is saying “I did this. I’m controlling the world’s economy.”
What he’s also doing is tanking the US economy to privatize everything.
It's so simple. If you could make the good for less than the import price. You'd be making it in the US already. And, who's going to weld for 14 hours a day in a factory.....no-one will do the work. The only people who would, have been deported or have been thrown in jail.
Manufacturing is an engineer to fix it and a custodian to sweep up spills. The design, invention, testing, sales and all that stuff is someone else. The US currently does a lot of the designing and testing, etc, but I expect the rest of the world to make it harder for US to sell services.
Those good paying jobs working for the federal government will become low-wage tough factory jobs, the few that there are. Man will be competing with robots and citizens for affordable goods and services. Trade war is a fancy name for Trump Ponzi scheme.
These oligarchs want to create a caste system in the US where you are either a member of the Billionaire Master-Owner class or you are a member of the poor, subservient worker servant class.
Imagine if you will, a vast country club with low paid servants serving billionaires.
Meanwhile, what do you think Americans replacing labour from developing countries will be paid? With the GOP keeping minimum wages down you can be assured it will not be enough to survive given the price hikes 🇺🇸 will see across the entire spectrum because of Trump's tariff war with the world.
The entire reason manufacturing is shipped overseas is bc of labor costs. It’s cheaper overseas. There isn’t a single American (even the children the regime wants to put to work) would do the kind of work for the wages paid that Asian sweatshops get away with.
Republicans fight tooth and nail against paying a living wage to workers now. If all these factories are built here they will have to rewrite current immigration laws to allow for more undocumented and / or green card employees willing to work for less
I know what you went through. I had so many arguments about tariffs with MAGAts. They cannot understand the concept. It is too much higher level of ideas. No surprise they are uneducated.
Not to mention the air, ground and water pollution that would accompany increased factories paired with decreased regulation - which is what they want.
And, for what!? So, we can have our undereducated brainwashed children look forward to having a job sewing garments for $7.50 an hour and horrible working conditions.
Businesses will not build factories during political and economic uncertainty. More likely outcome is they will take cash and use it to buy back shares at deflated prices, thus further solidifying the power of the oligarchy. Econ something something 300 or so I'd think. (30+ years since my degrees)
It would take some time to teach necessary skills. Most who had those skills are now in nursing homes or dead.
Trump forgets to mention it’s the corporations that made the business decisions to offshore manufacturing. Those left of centre always opposed offshoring.
And given he 78 and he is the only one who thinks this is a good idea, they will not do it, as they see no long term gain. This is a EGO power play, starting tomorrow the Ar#e kissing starts with Benny. Oh you are so clever Sir, yes Gaza hotel great idea, as he wipes a tear from his eye..-
And who is going to work in these factories for 15 dollars an hour? You would need to implement a communistic type government in order to force workers to work for the lower fees. Tariffs don’t work! A free society means free trade too!
Those middle class taxes would have increased much less than the tariffs will increase tax burden on middle class. And the stock market crashing and losing American people Trillions $ must mean nothing to you ? When America goes into recession, most likely you will be suffering for many years too.
And the tariffs have been ratcheted down to be fair to us and the other countries.
China will come around.
Losing money is a bad thing for all of us. We will rebound.
Always amazing to me how you and yours hatred for Trump blinds you.
Where was this outrage with Biden and Harris?
Lies and grotesque falsehoods typical of those who have stopped caring about about truth, logic and reason or even human decency so that they can bow down to their damn monstrous criminal conman.
My husband worked for GE for 40 yrs. He watched as robots took over. As the total employee # dwindled. It’s was quite sad. We will need a lot of computer programmers in the coming years,but there will not enough “jobs”. 🥲. That’s before we talk about being able to source the materials.
That doesn’t even include costs tied to building new infrastructure, environmental regulations, or supply chain adjustments. So yes—reshoring sounds good in theory, but the economic reality is much more complicated.
As a rough estimate, the cost of products could increase by 20% to 50% or more, depending on the product category and how labor-intensive the manufacturing process is.
In countries like China or Vietnam, average manufacturing wages are a fraction of what U.S. workers earn. For example, factory labor in the U.S. can be 3 to 5 times more expensive.
Who is going to build the factories? Scared minorities? And might need to work on educating the workforce too but who cares about literacy and schools?
Businesses need a stable government, rule of law and a level playing field in order to thrive. Not a place where you have to grovel to the regime and your competitors can pay for favors. No one is going to expand business in US. Instead, businesses will go to other countries with stable democracies.
As @davidfrum.bsky.social wrote in The Atlantic, tariffs will more likely just encourage Americans to cross-border shop & try to sneak things back in. Double loss for US government & can only imagine the outcome if CBP turns as aggressive with its own citizens as it's being with law-abiding visitors
And let’s do the math. As the U.S. plans to deport 11M immigrants, about 3.5% of the population, and with just a 4.2% unemployment rate, who is going to do work these supposed new jobs?
And everything could change overnight. He governs by whim and ego favouring those who suck up to him -sometimes, but even that is not guaranteed. It is environment where no business could start and be guaranteed of anything.
And these factories will be run by robotics.......big job creation #s projected are a scam. The billionaires will make more $$ (big tax breaks) but minimal opportunities for the common folk.
And how will this administration convince it's fervent uninformed voters that the price increases, loss of 401k $$, and loss of rights is the new MAGA way. Eggs.....$11 a dozen here. This should be interesting.......
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Reminds me of a cat who proudly offers a freshly dead mouse. "We are so proud of you, Howard" we say as we shudder and drop his dead mouse in the trash.
Exactly. I was thinking if they wanted to onshore more jobs they could start with all of the foreign-based call centers. And tax the companies who still want to use them.
Do modern factories use legions of blue collar workers…or do they use robots and automation? The plants won’t come, but if they did, they would not recreate the golden age of American manufacturing. It’s all a grift.
Given Ron DeSantis' cheerleading for child labor, it's not too far-fetched to imagine those factories filled with children. Who else could possibly work for starvation wages? Perhaps women will also be forced to accept such poorly paid jobs, since it's abundantly clear the trump regime hates women.
Everything will be a lot more expensive immediately thanks to tariffs. Trump will be taking kickbacks for exemptions. He doesn’t care about the people as long as he makes money.
Goes back to Reagan and the heritage foundation selling us to CHINA. Those factories are apartments, high end lofts or brown sites. Apartments- Wallingford, CT. Luxury lofts, the old Remington factory in New Haven. Torrington has 12 brown site factories, abandoned.
So you want nothing to change?
Businesses are quite industrious when they have to.
On one hand jobs brought back to the US is a good thing, according to you not because things cost more.
Can’t have it both ways.
There is a lot of truth to say that we need to build up our manufacturing, but doing it through tariffs is not the answer. The way that Comrade Drump is doing tariffs, our economy will be destroyed long before the first factory is built and we will be a 2nd rate Country by then. No winners this way!
Those factories also require equipment. Equipment we don't manufacture and may not even be currently built. We also don't have trained operators or repair personnel. And how many of these rich people are even interested in opening/financing such a factory?
It is ridiculous to think that companies are going to spend the Money to invest in factories that will take years to build and of course will be all robots. No jobs from this just stupid talk to feed the Magats.
Any good business leader knows that the tariffs could disappear at any time for any reason or no reason at all.
They know investing in manufacturing here could instantly yield a total loss on the whim of a deeply unstable idiot.
There’s NO plan to follow up with all these tariffs or layoffs.Never thought it through, never considered the consequences that were going to affect ALL of us! Just wanted to get rid of any agency that provides help, getting rid of all immigrants, without thinking how it would hurt 99% of us. Fight!
That’s the part the administration isn’t getting. And what happens when they do decide to set up shop in America and he reverses tariffs? It’s too risky of a move
And every local government would give the new factories tax incentives for enough time to destroy the local community and infrastructure before the company leaves
Europe might not raise the tariffs in return, we don't feel like paying more for your products. Instead we are boycotting US products and services as much as we can, which is not very hard because for almost every product there's a good non-American alternative.
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Building robotics to make the products , that’s the business of the future.
It’s not even that it’s a bad plan, it’s the total absence of planning. It’s just a senile man baby playing Monopoly with the entire global economy.
sadly even seems to work with at least a solid chunk of top universities, law firms and journalism organizations.
Yeah, that could be a bit dicier to hold your breath and wait for all of them to come crawling back to you.
So. Who wants to bet a nickel on how long he holds it, trying?
cuz, I think he might just dig in for a while.
It’s almost like the guy whose resume consists of signing his name, looking at fabric swatches, and bankrupting casinos doesn’t know a GD about business.
This is all about ruining our economy to please his master, putin.
Overnight.
1. unstable government policies
2. high tariffs
3. world sentiment terrible
4. allies and partners are Russia and NK
Let's move our business there!
the cost,
a billionaires bottom line and his private jet in relation to a decent wage.
The decent wage lost..
What he’s also doing is tanking the US economy to privatize everything.
Recruit employees, train them.
Source raw materials within the US if possible
All at a US cost rather than an offshore costs often 1/10 of the US cost
Enterprise needs stability and consistency things that Trump does not bring to the table.
Nobody wants to trade with or invest in the USA now Nothing personal it’s just too risky
Imagine if you will, a vast country club with low paid servants serving billionaires.
He didn’t get it…. He just didn’t get it. Smdh
#DemographicCliff
Like something I rea better to die standing up than on knees.
Trump forgets to mention it’s the corporations that made the business decisions to offshore manufacturing. Those left of centre always opposed offshoring.
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I appreciate the toil those workers endure.
I know that
Any,even half, sentinent person knows that
Unfortunately his supporters don’t know, or care to know, that
And I’m not entirely sure he does either.
Had they, middle class taxes would have increased.
China will come around.
Losing money is a bad thing for all of us. We will rebound.
Always amazing to me how you and yours hatred for Trump blinds you.
Where was this outrage with Biden and Harris?
He wants a tax cut for the rich, and working Americans will pay for it…
The Orange Felon doesn’t care.
He just wants a tax cut for the rich…
The foreign billionaires who are investing in these areas in America are only interested in generating money... regardless of cost to society.
Give me a break.
And any Republican official saying they want wages to go up is lying. Else they would have raised the minimum wage.
Unless we make high school optional and put 14 year olds to work.
The kind of job all kids grow up dreaming about! 🙄
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Instead I'd be queuing to get out.
Trump is an idiot.
Look at a Tesla plant.
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Businesses are quite industrious when they have to.
On one hand jobs brought back to the US is a good thing, according to you not because things cost more.
Can’t have it both ways.
Trump has jumped the shark and ensured that it will never be built.
It uses immigrants to do it
Costs will skyrocket to do it all in-country
And will all change once Trump and Co. are out of power
OR labor will be paid slave wages, which is also their intention.
That, and cutting all services before (child) and after a person's productive years have ended (retirement).
This has been known for many thousands of years.
Or intentional chaos!
Both are scary!
They know investing in manufacturing here could instantly yield a total loss on the whim of a deeply unstable idiot.