Anonymous wrote:According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, in February there were 482,000 unfilled manufacturing jobs in the US. So if employers can't fill EXISTING manufacturing jobs, why does anyone think that there is a ready and willing worker base to fill FUTURE manufacturing jobs?

POTUS and GOP see children with idle lives.

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Anonymous wrote:Guys, there aren’t going to be any new factories. The ones that exist will struggle to stay open with the tariffs in place.

We need factories to manufacture the parts for the factories that are going to manufacture the specific parts for the manufacturing factories. It’s not possible in any meaningful time frame.

Exactly. It will take years to get new factories on line. Years. There are a lot of supply chain and logistics issues to figure out. Some companies are more likely to go under rather than being able to fix it all in time. But Trump thinks somehow entire industries can turn on a dime, and sprung all this tariff BS without anyone being ready for it.

Why would any company invest in a factory in the US? Everything Trump has done can and will change after the midterms and with the next president. No one will invest in the US. If fact the capital is fleeing the country.

They won’t, that’s the whole point. Labor costs are too high, lack of a labor force (although MAGA is working in this) and environmental restrictions (MAGA working on this too but next administration might revert back to restrictions) it’s just not plausible and frankly is moronic across the board. Why would you move backwards and bring manufacturing and all the miserable conditions that come with it to the forefront of your economy. These folks are locked in a bygone era that has taken decades to move away from. A highly educated, skills based, pioneer thinking economy is what the county needs not being knocked back to the Stone Age of manufacturing. One of our biggest assets was being able to off load the manufacturing to economic hungry countries (it’s not pretty but it’s true). A smarter approach would have been perhaps to limit tarrifs to finished goods, bits and pieces of larger goods could remain tariff free these parts could then be brought into the country for final assembly, shielding us from the destruction of true manufacturing while stimulating some easier to implement production growth. but that’s too insightful for this administration.

Trade is more than just allowing for business transactions. When you really consider impacts of international trading partners, you are leveraging the talents to make products that can be exported for profit. It's about creating products and services, innovation is at the heart of driving commerce. Once you limit your trading partners, opportunities, narrow the possibilities of who your customers may be, you stagnate as a country. It's about imagination and ingenuity - you bring this in and you have the chance to share it with the world. Isolation stops all of this. It's a kind of slow death sentence.

The hope of course is that the limits on these ridiculous new trade policies will end when Trump goes out but it depends on how much damage he'll have wrecked not just in terms of practical policies but in relationships and where the other players are in theirs. It's easy to assume that the US by sheer size/volume will forever be a huge trade partner wanted by all but it depends on our economic strength and how we fare against the rest of the world. It's unimaginable we aren't considered the big whale we've always been, but having T at the helm is pretty surreal too!

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, in February there were 482,000 unfilled manufacturing jobs in the US. So if employers can't fill EXISTING manufacturing jobs, why does anyone think that there is a ready and willing worker base to fill FUTURE manufacturing jobs?