That’s all they gotta do.
Driving through Libby, Montana a few years ago I noted that the people looked poor, the cars were awful, the women looked like pillbillies.
Running cattle ain’t the business it used to be.
All I could think of was...what if little towns like that had the factories that thousands of Chinese towns now have?
The future would be far brighter for them. And companies like Apple would have to charge maybe 30 bucks more for an iphone.
Maybe.
Most people don’t know that Apple’s offshoring is the outgrowth of an article in the early 90’s advocating that Apple concentrate solely on software in the U.S. and offshore/outsource all their hardware which was deemed low value added. Many people at the time objected saying it was unpatriotic. But eventually they were all coopted and now Apple is basically a Chinese company.
Mr. Trump may be able to reverse all that, but he sure as hell has a lot of people hobbling him.
Libby, Montana. Used to be a timber town. Then came the Spotted Owl.