Ugh.... I'll try to keep the rant level down to a low roar... but....
Is he actively trying to implode the US economy, and kill the reserve currency status of the dollar? I ask because it sure seems like it to me.
I expect a wave of US business collapses in the next 18 months as a direct result of this action. I do NOT expect an instant resurgence of manufacturing in the US.
You might be tempted to look back at the semi-miraculous turnaround of manufacturing from the depths of the Great Depression, into the wartime production of the US that out-produced the rest of the world, in what appeared to be less than 3 years, and think we can just do that again.
However, appearances are deceiving, the industrial mobilization of 1941-1943 was the result of years of preparation from graduates of the Army Industrial College, who had a new plan every few years for complete mobilization of our extant manufacturing infrastructure. Given our current administrations penchant for bulldozing Chesterton's fence and putting in a concentration camp in it's place, it's likely the folks who may actually have had a plan for the present, have all been fired.
We barely have the infrastructure in the US to make the machine tools to make the production tools to ramp up industrial production. We've spent the last few decades telling all the promising youth that production and factory jobs were a dead end, thus compromising our labor force.
This is not going to end well.
throwaway81523 · 6m ago
They're gonna spend a fortune intercepting every dinky little package sent to the US from Ali Express? Good luck with that.
Is he actively trying to implode the US economy, and kill the reserve currency status of the dollar? I ask because it sure seems like it to me.
I expect a wave of US business collapses in the next 18 months as a direct result of this action. I do NOT expect an instant resurgence of manufacturing in the US.
You might be tempted to look back at the semi-miraculous turnaround of manufacturing from the depths of the Great Depression, into the wartime production of the US that out-produced the rest of the world, in what appeared to be less than 3 years, and think we can just do that again.
However, appearances are deceiving, the industrial mobilization of 1941-1943 was the result of years of preparation from graduates of the Army Industrial College, who had a new plan every few years for complete mobilization of our extant manufacturing infrastructure. Given our current administrations penchant for bulldozing Chesterton's fence and putting in a concentration camp in it's place, it's likely the folks who may actually have had a plan for the present, have all been fired.
We barely have the infrastructure in the US to make the machine tools to make the production tools to ramp up industrial production. We've spent the last few decades telling all the promising youth that production and factory jobs were a dead end, thus compromising our labor force.
This is not going to end well.