The question no one is asking: SHOULD there be manufacturing in the US?

[Anonymous]

This regime does not care about american workers. But let's say they do and want to bring back manufacturing jobs. Keep in mind they are gutting safety and labor regulations. So they want to make people work with little restraint on safety guidelines and workers' rights.

We tried this before - it was called slavery. they want slavery. As long as people keep thinking Trump and Company are unserious, we will have slavery in American on widespread scale. It will not only be prisoners in slavery.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This regime does not care about american workers. But let's say they do and want to bring back manufacturing jobs. Keep in mind they are gutting safety and labor regulations. So they want to make people work with little restraint on safety guidelines and workers' rights.

We tried this before - it was called slavery. they want slavery. As long as people keep thinking Trump and Company are unserious, we will have slavery in American on widespread scale. It will not only be prisoners in slavery.

Agree. Our kids are the plan for the next generation of factory workers. With lax regs.

[Anonymous]

Most of the manufacturing jobs “returning to the US” will be done by ai and robots.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Never mind all the talk about tariffs and “bringing jobs back” and all that noise. The question that isn’t being asked is SHOULD manufacturing be brought back the US, and if it should be, why?

There are myriad reasons from pollution to the stock market for sending manufacturing offshore and keeping manufacturing out of the US. But no one is arguing bringing manufacturing back to the US beyond “jobs”.

What is the goal here?

When I lived in Salisbury we had 6 factories paying good wages. Now there are none. Salisbury has turned into a Section 8 fentanyl town. It is sad.

What is wrong with wanting good jobs?

[Anonymous]

In related news, scientists have recreated from DNA the dire wolf seen in Game of Thrones.

[Anonymous]

Elon Musk put this on his account this morning with no commentary. Milton Friedman in 1980. I think it sends the message . . .

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1909169096391811304?campaign_id=56&emc=edit_cn_20250407&instance_id=152093&nl=on-politics:-musk%E2%80%99s-washington®i_id=77315443&segment_id=195525&user_id=180cbe0226aaa1746c6ab7f2624447fd

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Never mind all the talk about tariffs and “bringing jobs back” and all that noise. The question that isn’t being asked is SHOULD manufacturing be brought back the US, and if it should be, why?

There are myriad reasons from pollution to the stock market for sending manufacturing offshore and keeping manufacturing out of the US. But no one is arguing bringing manufacturing back to the US beyond “jobs”.

What is the goal here?

Were you born 2020?

Do you not remember the lack of masks because we did not manufacture them?

This is about security. We need to build stuff, ships , cars, computers , chips etc

We should not bend over backwards for urban elites to get cheap iPhones

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In related news, scientists have recreated from DNA the dire wolf seen in Game of Thrones.

Now I'm thinking about the Hunger Games. Why oh why.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We don’t have enough of a underclass to man all these factories you are dreaming of. Plus why do we want to ruin our land with factories everywhere? There is a reason most goods are made in third world countries.

Bruh, we literally have tent cities under every overpass and you're saying we don't have an underclass?

If you knew anything about homeless people, you’d know that the vast majority have severe mental illness and/or substance abuse problems. You really want those people manning your factories?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We don’t have enough of a underclass to man all these factories you are dreaming of. Plus why do we want to ruin our land with factories everywhere? There is a reason most goods are made in third world countries.

Bruh, we literally have tent cities under every overpass and you're saying we don't have an underclass?

If you knew anything about homeless people, you’d know that the vast majority have severe mental illness and/or substance abuse problems. You really want those people manning your factories?

I think you reversed cause and effect.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Never mind all the talk about tariffs and “bringing jobs back” and all that noise. The question that isn’t being asked is SHOULD manufacturing be brought back the US, and if it should be, why?

There are myriad reasons from pollution to the stock market for sending manufacturing offshore and keeping manufacturing out of the US. But no one is arguing bringing manufacturing back to the US beyond “jobs”.

What is the goal here?

Were you born 2020?

Do you not remember the lack of masks because we did not manufacture them?

This is about security. We need to build stuff, ships , cars, computers , chips etc

We should not bend over backwards for urban elites to get cheap iPhones

They are not elite. They just think they are.

One shipyard in China built more ships last year than America has built in total since World War 2.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Never mind all the talk about tariffs and “bringing jobs back” and all that noise. The question that isn’t being asked is SHOULD manufacturing be brought back the US, and if it should be, why?

There are myriad reasons from pollution to the stock market for sending manufacturing offshore and keeping manufacturing out of the US. But no one is arguing bringing manufacturing back to the US beyond “jobs”.

What is the goal here?

When I lived in Salisbury we had 6 factories paying good wages. Now there are none. Salisbury has turned into a Section 8 fentanyl town. It is sad.

What is wrong with wanting good jobs?

Nobody has a problem with jobs. Notice how nobody is saying that at all.

Se are trying to explain to you that the factories of the 20th century and the associated “good jobs” are NOT coming back. It’s a fantasy. AI, robots and labor protections will not allow for profitable US manufacturing. The only way is of US workers get paid as little as someone in China today. Why would you want that for US workers?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Never mind all the talk about tariffs and “bringing jobs back” and all that noise. The question that isn’t being asked is SHOULD manufacturing be brought back the US, and if it should be, why?

There are myriad reasons from pollution to the stock market for sending manufacturing offshore and keeping manufacturing out of the US. But no one is arguing bringing manufacturing back to the US beyond “jobs”.

What is the goal here?

Were you born 2020?

Do you not remember the lack of masks because we did not manufacture them?

This is about security. We need to build stuff, ships , cars, computers , chips etc

We should not bend over backwards for urban elites to get cheap iPhones

They are not elite. They just think they are.

One shipyard in China built more ships last year than America has built in total since World War 2.

But but but I need my cheap iPhone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Never mind all the talk about tariffs and “bringing jobs back” and all that noise. The question that isn’t being asked is SHOULD manufacturing be brought back the US, and if it should be, why?

There are myriad reasons from pollution to the stock market for sending manufacturing offshore and keeping manufacturing out of the US. But no one is arguing bringing manufacturing back to the US beyond “jobs”.

What is the goal here?

When I lived in Salisbury we had 6 factories paying good wages. Now there are none. Salisbury has turned into a Section 8 fentanyl town. It is sad.

What is wrong with wanting good jobs?

So when are you going to start work in a factory? You people are such a joke. No one wants to work in manufacturing and certainly you and your kids will not work in a factory. It’s always someone else who has to work in the factories.

US manufacturers have more jobs vs people willing to work right now. People want to wear Nikes not make Nikes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Never mind all the talk about tariffs and “bringing jobs back” and all that noise. The question that isn’t being asked is SHOULD manufacturing be brought back the US, and if it should be, why?

There are myriad reasons from pollution to the stock market for sending manufacturing offshore and keeping manufacturing out of the US. But no one is arguing bringing manufacturing back to the US beyond “jobs”.

What is the goal here?

When I lived in Salisbury we had 6 factories paying good wages. Now there are none. Salisbury has turned into a Section 8 fentanyl town. It is sad.

What is wrong with wanting good jobs?

Nobody has a problem with jobs. Notice how nobody is saying that at all.

Se are trying to explain to you that the factories of the 20th century and the associated “good jobs” are NOT coming back. It’s a fantasy. AI, robots and labor protections will not allow for profitable US manufacturing. The only way is of US workers get paid as little as someone in China today. Why would you want that for US workers?

If the jobs will be done mostly by AI and robots, should that be happening in America or elsewhere?