the supply chain to produce those goods in the United States simply isn’t there
This is what everyone has been saying ad-nauseum since this whole shit show started.
this post was submitted on 09 May 2025
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...in the 80s.
That’s what people keep forgetting: this is not new. It took us decades to offshore our supply chains, decades to move out low profit manufacturing. Now it’s gone. Long gone with few remnants, and we need to start over. It will take time and investment, incentive and support, and can only be done with an actual strategy and sticking with it. For decades..
Maybe a factory can be built in a couple years, but a supply chain is many factories building different things, supported by resource acquisition that’s different from what we currently do. A supply chain is decades
So how come the people in MANUFACTURING couldn't see his proposal in MANUFACTURING was a big crock of shit?
Because the people writing him checks aren't the people doing all the actual work.
BRB, setting up my backyard forge after years of not smooshing any metal. Looks like it's up to people like me to make all this complicated tool&die
But they'll be able to build big beautiful factories with huge tarriffs on all the building supplies and equipment right?
Assuming rebuilding manufacturing is the intended goal, how feasible is it to start at the local level, as if in a preindustrial society? That means towns would be going back to having their own smiths, bakers, butchers, like in preindustrial times? Guess that's a consequence of deindustrializing—go back to making handmade stuff since the local businesses that once mass-produced closed long ago.
Feasible? Only in smallish communities surrounded by arable land. The urban and suburban life needs large scale industry to function at all.
You mean that this plan was not fully thought out and is just another reactionary policy that will do more harm than good? Shocking!