#11
No, it won't be better anytime soon. These plants don't build themselves overnight, and they won't get built at all as long as there's an idiot in charge:
"If you want stuff being put in the ground, you have to tell people the price, and the price needs to be fully inclusive of the tariff risk," one former administration official in Trump's first term, granted anonymity to speak freely, told me.
It's not that tariffs can't work as an action-forcing tool for companies to move production to the U.S. This is a wealthy country with one of the largest consumer markets in the world, and the president probably isn't wrong that a lot of our trading partners would capitulate to keep serving it.
But I've asked multiple corporate executives in recent weeks whether companies are likely to start investing in manufacturing in the United States in response to Trump's policies, and the message has basically been:
That's an unanswerable question right now. Because making those decisions requires understanding the relative costs of doing it versus not doing it, and Trump is far too unpredictable to allow for that kind of calculation."
www.politico.com
Of course, the billionaires backing this are the insiders who will eventually profit from it a few years from now, maybe... and who couldn't care less about all the lives of 'lesser mortals' it will destroy in the meantime.
One of these days your avg rwinger is going to realize that they are not now and are never going to be one of the very wealthy that this could actually help in the future.
That they are the cannon fodder only.
