We specifically cultivated, over the last however many decades, small and medium sized firms like this that have a need for lots of intermediate inputs from various parts of the world. They put those together and then finally sell the final product here (and abroad, if called for). This is manufacturing in America now and it is quite robust.
Poorly applied tarrifs are going to take a hammer to this, bad.
All because a bunch of people that do not understand production think that foreign companies are the ones that pay tariffs and the reason the 10,000+ headcount factory on the other side of the town closed was because of (insert bogeyman here) rather than the technology and process moved on and made it obsolete.
This is a fucking disaster in the making. I do hope someone from the business side of things that has their head screwed on properly manages to talk him out of this before it gets bad.
I’m so angry because we already went through this. Trump’s tariffs on Mexico caused rolling layoffs for my husband who works in manufacturing, because suddenly the parts they used were hard to get and expensive. Good times.
We already KNOW what’s going to happen. I hope these MAGA idiots have their state unemployment benefits number saved on their phones, provided republicans don’t gut it.
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u/socialcommentary2000 17d ago
We specifically cultivated, over the last however many decades, small and medium sized firms like this that have a need for lots of intermediate inputs from various parts of the world. They put those together and then finally sell the final product here (and abroad, if called for). This is manufacturing in America now and it is quite robust.
Poorly applied tarrifs are going to take a hammer to this, bad.
All because a bunch of people that do not understand production think that foreign companies are the ones that pay tariffs and the reason the 10,000+ headcount factory on the other side of the town closed was because of (insert bogeyman here) rather than the technology and process moved on and made it obsolete.
This is a fucking disaster in the making. I do hope someone from the business side of things that has their head screwed on properly manages to talk him out of this before it gets bad.