A lot of Americans will appreciate President Biden’s sentiment, but there is a problem. We will build less because American construction materials tend to cost more. So we can have American jobs in the materials business until the government money runs out, or we can build American infrastructure with American jobs until the money runs out. The latter will go further to then provide more economic activity than the former.
Trump and MAGA need no help or conspiracy to destroy themselves. Trump has imparted one of his super powers to the movement, stepping in your own s#!t and then shooting your foot.
It all but impossible to explain why I do not conflate President Trump with citizen Trump with redux candidate Trump.
It is sad to see him flush away his legacy of good policies and things he did. He has memed himself and him and his followers get what that deserve.
Respectfully disagree with your "Ally-shoring" concept, but a nice buzz word.
It's just another flavor of picking winners and losers.
Every time, without exception, the government tries to pick winners it leads to more corruption and failed projects.
How about we just get out of the way of business and let the free market rule?
The Feds are just another customer, albeit one of the largest on the planet. They get to choose their parameters and set the bidding rules. If that means 5x costs and 10% of the results, then so be it. But for everyone else out there scratching to build a business, it comes down to supply chain, quality, and price.
God’s Pronouns - I just finished publishing a book about God & Time (Tomorrow Has Never Happened: Understanding the Nature of Time And The Workings of Providence). In the introduction I wrote:
We all have presuppositions; ideas and beliefs we assume in advance are true or taken for granted ...
My Presuppositions: ... God, through these words, has self-identified as masculine (however, God is without gender and both men and women are the image of God) so I use the pronoun He for God. We can agree to disagree (if we do) on these points.
The hard part for some politicians is they will have to acknowledge that China is not an ally to us. It gets more difficult for countries like India that want to sit on both sides of the fence.
I never understood why we haven’t pushed/financed more development in S America? Why aren’t we building factories there to employ the all these “hard-working immigrants” ???
Outstanding idea but won’t every new factory have to have the new ESG standards to get this government to buy from them. Just look at what Our transportation secretary is doing to our ports. 2024 can not come soon enough for me.
This goes back to the unions who have shook down the manufacturing companies for millions in wage hikes and perks disregarding the company’s that employ them.
This has made American made products too expensive for its own country.
Not going to change at all but just pointing out the obvious.
Erick for President! Why can’t the geniuses in DC see the logic in this? We could bring China to its knees economically if we had the will to move all we could out of there.
Because the theory sounds great, the reality is far more risky. Most of these other countries with cheap labor have a lot more instability. The Chinese regime keeps trying to very stable, something global companies looking for manufacturing put a lot of value on. India in Mexico are relatively stable, but then you get to much of the rest of Central and South America and the instability means risk in terms of manufacturing. Especially in certain countries that might decide one day to nationalize industry
Trump and MAGA need no help or conspiracy to destroy themselves. Trump has imparted one of his super powers to the movement, stepping in your own s#!t and then shooting your foot.
It all but impossible to explain why I do not conflate President Trump with citizen Trump with redux candidate Trump.
It is sad to see him flush away his legacy of good policies and things he did. He has memed himself and him and his followers get what that deserve.
Erick, You have to see this to the end and then comment on it tomorrow.
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Biden speaks and I hear Charlie Brown's teacher
Respectfully disagree with your "Ally-shoring" concept, but a nice buzz word.
It's just another flavor of picking winners and losers.
Every time, without exception, the government tries to pick winners it leads to more corruption and failed projects.
How about we just get out of the way of business and let the free market rule?
The Feds are just another customer, albeit one of the largest on the planet. They get to choose their parameters and set the bidding rules. If that means 5x costs and 10% of the results, then so be it. But for everyone else out there scratching to build a business, it comes down to supply chain, quality, and price.
Cheers
God’s Pronouns - I just finished publishing a book about God & Time (Tomorrow Has Never Happened: Understanding the Nature of Time And The Workings of Providence). In the introduction I wrote:
We all have presuppositions; ideas and beliefs we assume in advance are true or taken for granted ...
My Presuppositions: ... God, through these words, has self-identified as masculine (however, God is without gender and both men and women are the image of God) so I use the pronoun He for God. We can agree to disagree (if we do) on these points.
I say AMEN to Erick's comments on God's Pronouns.
I remember going to Jamaica in the early 1970's and touring a bauxite plant with my Dad. Ally-shoring for Aluminum, not made in China!
I like the name 'ally sourcing'.
I agree this should be pushed by both parties.
The hard part for some politicians is they will have to acknowledge that China is not an ally to us. It gets more difficult for countries like India that want to sit on both sides of the fence.
The GOP is a bag of mixed nuts right now.
Have they ever not been a bag of mixed nuts? Speaking of mixed nuts, the DNC have their picture in the dictionary next to the term.
The lack of thought that apparently goes into everything this clown administration does is terrifying.
Way too logical for the Washington crowd and especially those within the Biden administration to accept.
I never understood why we haven’t pushed/financed more development in S America? Why aren’t we building factories there to employ the all these “hard-working immigrants” ???
Instability.
Like it or not, the oppressive Chinese regime provides a lot of stability that global companies won't in terms of production.
Outstanding idea but won’t every new factory have to have the new ESG standards to get this government to buy from them. Just look at what Our transportation secretary is doing to our ports. 2024 can not come soon enough for me.
This goes back to the unions who have shook down the manufacturing companies for millions in wage hikes and perks disregarding the company’s that employ them.
This has made American made products too expensive for its own country.
Not going to change at all but just pointing out the obvious.
Erick for President! Why can’t the geniuses in DC see the logic in this? We could bring China to its knees economically if we had the will to move all we could out of there.
Because the theory sounds great, the reality is far more risky. Most of these other countries with cheap labor have a lot more instability. The Chinese regime keeps trying to very stable, something global companies looking for manufacturing put a lot of value on. India in Mexico are relatively stable, but then you get to much of the rest of Central and South America and the instability means risk in terms of manufacturing. Especially in certain countries that might decide one day to nationalize industry
Great idea. A "freedom trading block" to counter the rest of the world makes sense.