Posted on 04/22/2017 12:00:59 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
This past election, then-candidate Donald Trump came to Dundalk, a community that resembles so many towns and neighborhoods in Rust Belt states that have seen their manufacturing jobs base erode. He received a hero's welcome because residents heard him acknowledging what they lived and what they knew: When manufacturing jobs left many other problems arose. His words resonated — and now his actions are giving manufacturers the real change in Washington we've been looking for.
Manufacturers in the U.S. are feeling more optimistic about the economy and business environment than we have in 20 years, according to a new National Association of Manufacturers' (NAM) survey. This is in large part due to President Trump's bold commitment to lead a manufacturing jobs surge in America.
In fact, this month we had the opportunity to meet with President Trump in person, and it's clear that he is resolutely determined to boost manufacturing jobs in America. So whether you live in Cumberland, Laurel or Cambridge — anywhere in our state — you'll have more of a chance at a good-paying, long-term career. The president is particularly concerned about providing jobs to those in our cities like Baltimore — to individuals who've been left behind by politicians who made promises but haven't delivered results. And he knows how to start the turnaround because he's listening to manufacturers....
(Excerpt) Read more at baltimoresun.com ...
interesting post. thx
Stopping the choking action of leftists is an important factor here.
Stopping the choking action of leftists is an important factor here.
Well, leftists and “rightist” globalists.
The Blight For All notices Dundalk!
They should all be choking at the end of a rope. The proven way to stop them.
It is equally bad when this is all you can think of. It legitimizes the lefties as the closest thing to genuine liberal around, you not being willing to help that vacuum in what God has called the human heart to hunger for.
It would be easy to increase manufacturing employment -- just make it uneconomical, through taxes and regulations, to buy machines that increase productivity. However, that would make us all poorer, and make our exports less competitive.
The focus has to be on increasing national wealth, not on jobs s such. Employment comes as a result of people buying things. To get more people buying, costs have to be reduced through increases in productivity.
Getting more sensible environmental regulations would be a good place to start. After that, start cutting taxes on productive firms.
I’m trying to find where in this article a true net gain of jobs hired was XXXX. All I see is a feel good article from a bunch of corporate blowhards. Cut taxes and regulations and that will leads to unprecedented growth as we saw in the Reagan years. A few thousand here and there and articles about execs “feeling good” and cheerleading doesn’t equate to any jobs
Reducing taxes and regulations is nice, but it won’t restore or even keep manufacturing here. Trump needs to restore the import tariffs.
American manufacturing is feeling more optimistic because trump promised tariffs. And if the GOP fails to deliver on Trump’s promise, you will see American manufacturing talk up jobs even as they are shipping them overseas. They don’t want to get singled out by Trump, but they have to stay in business.
This op-ed includes a paragraph about small manufacturers yet overlooks the fact that the Trump budget strikes out one of the resources the government dedicates to helping small manufacturers - the Manufacturing Extension Partnership. This makes no sense and does not align to the Trump plan to bring manufacturing back to the US. The various MEP affiliates across the nation combine to provide an ROI of 9:1 for the $125-million appropriated to the program.
So if total maturating out put is Y, and X represents the manufacturing capacity lost in the last 20 years then the USA could have had X + Y of total manufacturing output. It doesn't matter what you compare Y to, it will always be smaller than X + Y.
Amazes me that normally intelligent people actually believe that nonsense. A country cannot import, retail and market its way to prosperity. It has to create wealth. There are only three ways to create wealth, manufacture it, grow or mine it. It is like a stool, take away one leg and it falls flat.
Just a small example, to be sure.
a lumber mill/furniture manufacturer in my home town, closed down, after more than 100 years in operation. Closed 4 years into the obambomination.
250 jobs gone and the town is dying.
Multiply that by thousands of towns across the U.S.A.
How did Hong Kong become so wealthy?
Be careful; you are making too much sense for some folks here to understand.
Employment comes as a result of people buying things.
Preposterous. If that were true there would be zero unemployed in the USA.
No country can import, retail and market its way to prosperity. A country has to create wealth and there are just three ways to create wealth, manufacture it, grow it or mine it. A viable economy is like a 3 legged stool, take away one leg and it falls flat.
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