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Politics : The Trump Presidency
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To: Katelew who wrote (7108)1/20/2017 3:55:26 PM
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Trump's goal is for more product manufactured in America. Why is that so offensive to liberals

I can't speak for others. But I think he is misleading his base on this. Either intentionally or unintentionally. If unintentionally, it means he is making promises based on the fact he doesn't understand the issues. Which is wholly believable considering he does this all the time. The fact of the matter is that there is no way to bring a lot of manufacturing back to the US that will benefit workers. It has, for the most part, been automated out of existence. And what hasn't, will be. Much has been made about Trump trying to get Apple to make the iPhone in the US. Apple has actually studied this and decided it would boost the costs by 2 to 3 times. Because American workers are not going to work for low wages and living in on premises dorm on call 24/7. Now that Foxconn is switching over to totally automated factories, that might be brought over here. Assuming that the ability of companies to work with local authorities to literally steal land isn't a factor, that is...

The reality is that people will have to retrain and possibly relocated. Bring high quality jobs to the areas which lost them is very hard. Speeches and threatening companies doesn't change that.

Manufacturing in the US is actually at its highest point ever. The problem is, it doesn't take as many people as it used to. I grew up in the middle of the largest petrochemical refining complex in the world. When I was a kid, a refinery would employ tens of thousands of workers. The parking lots were yuge. Now, those same refineries have a small cluster of pickups clustered around the entrance. Surrounded by acres of asphalt. Yet the refinery is more productive as it ever was. That is symbolic of the state of American manufacturing.
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