- cross-posted to:
- politics@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- politics@lemmy.world
This is what active military serving near Iran get to eat. Is he having door dash granny deliver it?
This is what active military serving near Iran get to eat. Is he having door dash granny deliver it?
Also, try to get something made here anymore, we don’t have the infrastructure to develop a lot of those skills anymore.
Our entire manufacturing industry rested on its laurels for fifty years. We sort of assumed the miracle was cheap labor (money in America is still upset about whole emancipation thing).
Super high dollar mossles were the only thing we had left and I think we just realized how the balance of Military power is also shifting.
So unless we WW3 everyone else, or stir up the continent and get them to do it again, we would have to do serious work and we don’t have those akillsets either. Think about our bave new Iraq.
Half a century of bad leadership has had an effect.
Part of the issue for industry in the US as well is that we also generally lack a lot of important manufacturing resources. We get something like 65% of our aluminum from Canada. When the tariffs were first going into effect and Trump was throwing a tantrum about Canada, the auto industry declared that they would be shutting down factories within a couple of months if the tariffs went into effect because they wouldn’t be able to afford the aluminum to continue production in the country.
You forgot about guns and ammunition, USA produces more than rest of world combined! EVERY state is involved in their manufacturing, even Hawaii.
Last time I checked, firearm sales have tripled since 2000.
https://www.nssf.org/government-relations/impact/
And industry certainly didn’t have to. Whilst Trump is wrong about the effects of trade deficit, he wasn’t wrong about it posing problems for US. Trade deficit isn’t a bad thing, because if done wisely import is essentially foreign investment in domestic production.
The fact that US manufacturers struggle is another way Trump represents the US: the US personified is a horrible short-sighted businessman that can’t get ahead with decades of a head start and endless investment pouring in.
It didn’t fall asleep, it grew legs and walked overseas.
Legs that were supplied by Wall Street (at a profit, of course)