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(3,100 posts)Unfortunately, many people in our country couldn't afford to do that, even back then. The wealthy and the corporations have artificially held wages down for decades. The wealthy also engaged in union busting, to prevent employees from being paid higher wages. We can see where this ended up going: a downward spiral in the economy, because now many people couldn't afford to buy American made products.
At first, a lot of off shoring of jobs was to Japan. A lot of the products were cheaper, but were low quality and poorly made. Eventually, foreign manufacturers figured out how to make better stuff, particularly in the case of cars and electronics. So, people started buying more foreign made stuff.
However, the policies that favored the rich and the corporations turned out to be short sighted. The wealthy got fiendishly rich by stiffing American workers and by exploiting workers abroad through low wages and no regulations for safety or exposure to environmental toxins.
Now $hitler and his henchmen are pretending that they are going to turn around a trend that has been in motion for over 50 years. And they are lying about how swiftly it will happen: Bigly! HUGE!! 11. The bestest ever 11!! 11.
What they aren't telling the rubes is that these miraculous factories will be automated, with most of the work being done by robots, so there will be very few people actually working in them.
Gee, I wonder who's working on making robots? I think his name is Eloon Muskrat. Guess who is in position to scoop up the contracts to build those robots?
So, those high paying manufacturing jobs that Dump is touting? They will benefit very few people, certainly not enough to help out the many unemployed people in former areas of manufacturing. SOS: it's all a scam, to stuff more money into pockets that have been overflowing for decades. Whatever manufacturing is brought back, it will be done at the pollution of our air, water and soil, and the sale and rape of our public lands.
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