[khelus]

... We need to stop government spending. We need to drop corp. taxes. We need to get out of our foreign wars. We need to get our energy situation squared away. We need to stop babying our population. ..

agreed. we also need to stop subsidizing illegals, guest workers, and brand new immigrants.

... Your plan would be ok, if there were still facilities and skilled labor to take up the slack. ...

The facilities we can rebuild; the labor we have. Jobs American can't / won't do is a myth to justify CHEAP labor. Hospital shout shortage of nurses while firing experienced, proven nurses and replacing them with cheap guest workers. Hospitals also will no longer hire new grads because they lack experience. The same in IT, engineering, skilled blue collar work, construction, etc.

FYI even Adam Smith approved of tariffs under certain circumstances.

[Vermont Lt]

The problem with your answer is that we do not have the facilities or trained skilled workers. I don’t mean people willing to work—I mean enough people with the skills to make anything.

And the ramp up time would be years. So between implementing tariffs and getting production up will result in a scarcity problem that would tank our economy.

Also, the resultant reprisal tariffs would sink us faster.

The point about not hiring folks without experience is nothing new—that has been going on for eons.

[Vermont Lt]

The problem with your answer is that we do not have the facilities or trained skilled workers. I don’t mean people willing to work—I mean enough people with the skills to make anything.

And the ramp up time would be years. So between implementing tariffs and getting production up will result in a scarcity problem that would tank our economy.

Also, the resultant reprisal tariffs would sink us faster.

The point about not hiring folks without experience is nothing new—that has been going on for eons.

And from the management perspective, aside from teachers there is not another group of entitled workers worse than nurses.

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