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18 hours ago, PaoloR said:

Take a sector that every American consumes regularly - Clothing and footwear.

 

There are no factories of any size manufacturing for the domestic market. Over 90% of apparel and footwear items are imported.

Building factories to make clothing/footwear in the USA would involve a substantial cost. Machinery would have to be imported; labor would have to be trained and paid at a labor cost way, way higher than current sources overseas.

All fabrics would have to be imported- there are virtually no textile factories producing volume goods in the USA

All trims such as buttons, threads, zips, labels would have to be imported.

To move manufacturing of these goods back to the USA is a complete non-starter.

Prices would be at minimum double their current level.

 

Take an order from Walmart for 5 million fleece hoodies with a 12 week turnaround from order to first delivery - how are they going to deliver that domestically? How are they going to persuade their customers to pay 60 USD for a basic Walmart hoodie? Where are the 6 factories with 2/3 thousand workers in each going to be found?

 

This is all wishful thinking from the uninformed Maga crowd. History shows that once you allow manufacturing to leave and move to a service-based economy there is no way back.

 

The above relates to just one industry. Extrapolate it over the many products that a consumer driven society like the USA requires every day and even someone with half a brain can see the absurdity of just assuming mass manufacturing can be re-instated on a wish and be operational within any reasonable time scale. Let alone consider who will invest the large sums necessary to build the required infrastructure.

 

Pie in the sky

Gee wizz, how did the US manage before they exported all the jobs to China? Were Americans dressed in rabbit skins or something?

 

History shows that once you allow manufacturing to leave and move to a service-based economy there is no way back.

Rubbish. If it's more profitable to make stuff in the US, it will be made in the US.

 

Where are the 6 factories with 2/3 thousand workers in each going to be found?

Another one that hasn't heard of AI! Factories don't need people any more. Chinese labour isn't even that cheap any more. It won't cost much more to build an AI robotics factory in the US than overseas, and all the profits will stay in the US.

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39 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Gee wizz, how did the US manage before they exported all the jobs to China? Were Americans dressed in rabbit skins or something?

 

History shows that once you allow manufacturing to leave and move to a service-based economy there is no way back.

Rubbish. If it's more profitable to make stuff in the US, it will be made in the US.

 

Where are the 6 factories with 2/3 thousand workers in each going to be found?

Another one that hasn't heard of AI! Factories don't need people any more. Chinese labour isn't even that cheap any more. It won't cost much more to build an AI robotics factory in the US than overseas, and all the profits will stay in the US.

Your post comes across as being quite naive, in a sense that there are a very limited number of factories that use entirely AI and robots. Most factories still use manual labor, likely the vast majority of them. And the US companies simply cannot afford those factories and the labor, and that is why those companies manufacture overseas.

 

It's really just a very silly meme that Trump likes to use and the people with an education the people who have studied the issue knows that's all it is. A small percentage of overseas manufacturing can be brought back to the US, likely we'll under 10%. 

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7 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

And the US companies simply cannot afford those factories and the labor, and that is why those companies manufacture overseas.

No, you see that's where you're wrong. US companies can afford those factories and labour, they just offshore because they're greedy. But they could produce in America. Are you seriously telling me a company worth trillions like Apple can't manufacture in the US? 

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