So first Trump prevents any ex-allies to the US from trading with them
Then Trump prevents factories from being opened in the US to produce goods locally
What kind of 6D backgammon is this?
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The kind where shelves go empty soon. I remember walking round the grocery store during covid and everything being empty, felt like a dream. Now it's a nightmare.
It was never possible even under normal circumstances
back to the mines!
That's the point. Destroy America but keep idiots voting for it.
Well they want to almost destroy America, that way the rich can buy up everything for cheap and become even more pwoerful. They're literally trying to recreate the situation that caused the rise of oligarchs in Russia.
And the idiots vote for it because they've been brainwashed by propaganda to think they'll be part of the elite once it's over.
This is what I’ve been saying, building factories is already an expensive and time consuming process, then you slap high prices on everything you need to make a factory work it’s going to be out of reach for basically anyone and the few who can afford it likely wouldn’t anyway because like this describes it’s not fiscally responsible but also the US is in decline why would you be putting an enormous investment into a wildly unstable system? If you want manufacturing in the US building factories needs to be reasonable price wise and you need consumers with the funds to do the consuming, neither of which can be delivered now
Also need regulatory approval, plus funding talent and all the employees for said factories, and then manage the logistics from the factories to distribution warehouses then to the stores.
What Trump and MAGA wanted can be done... but over a period of many years (like 20+ years) of careful and purposeful policy making.
ironically, much of the domestic industrial policy Biden signed into law was intended to do exactly this but Trump reversed course because corrupt reasons
"Corrupt reasons" is actually giving him too much credit. He's tearing up everything Biden did because Biden did it. He did the same thing with as much of Obama's legislative agenda as he could.
It's pure pettiness. He can't allow his predecessors to have a legacy. His ego cannot afford it.
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So how come the people in MANUFACTURING couldn't see his proposal in MANUFACTURING was a big crock of shit?
Because the people writing him checks aren't the people doing all the actual work.
you were warned months before, and even before the election. dont act surprised, you thought his only legislation was tax cuts, but it wasnt , he was pushing things further along the line for PUTIN.
Only the 1% are getting tax cuts. This was all known before the election but people are dumb.
The world has no appetite for his big beautiful luxury goods store.
USA used to be the managers and leaders of these factories, now he wants them to be the grunt workers and for some reason people are all for it.
Before Reaganomics and globalism the middle class was strong and built on the shoulders of blue collars, why do you think they forced globalism down our throat? So they could make stuff cheaply and could eradicate the middle class. I hate Trump and what he stands for, but globalism was something the left was fighting against back in the day because the left realized the consequences of losing manufacturing jobs in first world countries.
What made those jobs great for the middle class wasn't the fact that they were blue collar manufacturing jobs, it was the fact that they were unionized.
Unions and high top tax brackets built the American middle middle class between the fourties and the eighties. Yes, offshoring allows companies to seek lower wages elsewhere, but the solution to that is not sweatshops at home. You need to start by building up strong labour rights and investing in education and infrastructure, which drive investment in job growth. Stop trying to regain all the jobs you lost and work and improving the jobs you have.
Yes, leftists have been warning about globalisation for decades, and they're right, but lets not pretend that what Trump is doing is even in the same continent as a solution.
It's still good jobs for people who won't go to university, you can't tell these folks "just learn programming" when what they're good at is manual work.
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All socialist ideologies are globalist.
"Workers of the world unite" ring any bells? "All war is class war?" Globalist rhetoric. The idea that artificial divisions like nations are weapons against the people.
You are, ironically, using the word the way Reagan and his kind used it, as an ill-defined nationalist slur to protect local profit margins.
There's a difference between fighting together against capitalism and being pro economic globalization. Economic globalization has actually hurt the workers of the world and you know full well that's what I'm talking about, you just want to argue for the sake of arguing.
https://repository.law.miami.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1082&context=umiclr
Because only white Europeans deserve to have the benefits of an industrial or post industrial economy, obviously.
they also saw reagan was a easy to manipulate stooge, especially after his alzheimers starting to affect him, they took even greater advantage of him.
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the supply chain to produce those goods in the United States simply isn’t there
This is what everyone has been saying ad-nauseum since this whole shit show started.
BRB, setting up my backyard forge after years of not smooshing any metal. Looks like it's up to people like me to make all this complicated tool&die
But they'll be able to build big beautiful factories with huge tarriffs on all the building supplies and equipment right?