Posted on 01/31/2017 4:49:32 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The administration of President Donald Trump wants manufacturing jobs to make up about a fifth of the American workforce, said Peter Navarro, tapped by Trump to lead the newly created National Trade Council.
Navarro told CNBC's "Squawk Box" on Wednesday that part of his job at the National Trade Council is matching the needs of industry with the skills of U.S. workers.
"We envision a more Germany-style economy, where 20 percent of our workforce is in manufacturing," he said. "And we're not talking about banging tin in the back room."
"We're talking about high technology across the board, whether it's computer chips or cars or anything in between," said Navarro, a Trump campaign policy advisor and formerly a business professor at the University of California, Irvine....
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These things don't happen overnight, I get it.
Adopting the German educational system with it’s two track vocational and technical college paths would be a good start.
It’s the reason they have capable and qualified people in their workforce.
Headline will read “Trump Wants to Emulate Nazi Germany”
This proves it! Trump and his people are NAZI’S!!!
Possible lamestream headline...
Tomorrows Fake News Headline- Trump wants to Roll out the Panzers!
I like what I hear here.
I agree with your post.
Exactly what I wanted to hear from Trump. The German model is excellent.
If I had to do it all over again I’d go into one of the trades. Electrical work pays pretty nice.
Yeah, me too. The closest I’ve gotten to electrical equipment was selling it. The guys buying it made more money than I did.
3-4th Largest Economy in the World. An Efficient Folk.
>>>We envision a more Germany-style economy
Wait, aren’t the Germans a bunch of socialists?
Sounds questionable. What USA needs is manufacturing. Cars, steel... real things. Not more computers. Real people, need jobs not just college grads.
Regulatory and tax reform will do more to attract industry to the US than any new trade policy. Automation continues to be the main enemy of manufacturing employment.
“Adopting the German educational system with its two track vocational and technical college paths would be a good start.”
Like all others, that system has its strengths and its weaknesses.
Sometimes educators are slow to recognize genius.
Same here, HVAC or Refrigeration. Work is never ending
What a chance to really upgrade the education system, not everyone needs to go to 4 yr college. Plus another way to avoid having a generation of youth being indoctrinated by liberal colleges
“Automation continues to be the main enemy of manufacturing employment.”
No. A LACK of automation is the problem. When competing countries have cheaper labor, you need to be able to produce more per man-hour. Then, to preserve or expand employees, you need to produce more volume.
We should be focusing on expanding demand for manufactured goods while we make production cheaper by expanding volume. That way we get MORE manufacturing jobs while we produce MUCH MORE product at cheaper cost than more labor-intensive less-automated countries. There are billions of people who don’t have a pot to piss in. There are more billions waiting for the next new thing — flying cars, tunneling machines, self sufficient off-grid housing, yachts, floating man-made islands, dirigible motor-homes, or whatever. Products that are simultaneously better and cheaper than the previous model preserve and grow market share and competitors find the market has moved on by the time they gear up. Remember that nobody knew 100 years ago they wanted a TV, computer, or cell phone.
Of course, that will require more electrical generating capacity at cheaper costs and much better re-use of scrap materials to make “recycled” raw materials cheaper than virgin raw materials. Disposable products are fine if it takes little cost to remake the materials into a new generation of the item. China has gotten better than we are at manufacturing using the old “automated” methods, so we need to leap frog to new methods.
Most definitely.
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