Trump vows to reverse 30 years of history to restore manufacturing economy in manic tweet

[DonViejo]

Source: RawStory




TRAVIS GETTYS
07 MAR 2018 AT 07:00 ET

President Donald Trump promised to rebuild the manufacturing economy that has withered in the United States since the 1980s.

The president tweeted Wednesday morning that he would “make America great again” by reversing that decline, which he said started under former President George H.W. Bush.

“From Bush 1 to present, our Country has lost more than 55,000 factories, 6,000,000 manufacturing jobs and accumulated Trade Deficits of more than 12 Trillion Dollars,” Trump tweeted. “Last year we had a Trade Deficit of almost 800 Billion Dollars. Bad Policies & Leadership. Must WIN again! #MAGA”

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[Blue Owl]

1. That's because of rich fucks like you Donnie

n/t

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Take your meds, Donnie

Mania can be treated if you let the doctors help you when they visit your padded cell

[beachbum bob]

3. so when will trump stop buying foriegn made goods and hiring H1B people?

btw, he has no chance to do anything concerning american manufacturing as corporations go where the greatest profits can be made....he is so clueless

[Girard442]

8. There you go again, with your thinking and logic and facts.

Trump's all about applause lines. If it would get him a standing O, he'd promise to toss virgins into a volcano.

[TranssexualKaren]

19. BTW

The fifties were the high water mark of the American welfare state. 91 percent top marginal tax rate. Are they ready to give us that stuff too?

[steve2470]

4. started under Reagan, you moron

Go ask the steelworkers.

[greymattermom]

5. So he thinks Americans

will work for Chinese wages? Or that Walmart will buy made in the USA again?

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

13. Sure. Enough of them were stupid enough to vote for him, despite every indication

he was going to screw them over. Why shouldn't they be willing to return to the sweatshop days before unions? They should be grateful to their overlords that they have been given jobs at all. Why people vote against their own interests I'll never understand.

And I keep hearing progressive pundits saying, "during the next four or eight years Trump will reshape America to fit his own ideology," as if it's a foregone conclusion he'll be re-elected in a landslide. I think we should take a page from Sen. McConnell's playbook and start working to make the Donald a one term president.

Or less, if the Mueller investigation continues on its current trajectory.

What has to be emphasized every step of the way is that Donnie Two Scoops' actions are not normal, and should never be treated as such. He should release his taxes, put his assets in a true blind trust (not one where he gets quarterly reports), and follows his constitutional mandate to protect this country from all enemies, foreign and domestic. And he should obey all the laws, even the ones that displease Putin, like the one that solidified the sanctions against Russia, which Trump has been sitting unenforced even unto this day.

[Botany]

6. And where did the steel that was used on your Trump Tower buildings come from Donny?

The name China ring a bell?

And where did you get the labor for a demolition project in NYC that you could
pay sub minimum wages to come from? Poland.

And where are your and Ivanka's crappy clothes and shoes made?
China, Pakistan, Mexico, Vietnam, Central America, and Bangladesh.

Donny, this is what is called projection.

[truthisfreedom]

7. As he creates the hugest national debt increase in history

Such a useless turd.

[Jim__]

9. Besides, this is good for Russia. - n/t

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

10. Also, he's going back to steam locomotives, using the telegraph for communications, and putting us

back on the gold standard. Actually, I don't doubt he'd do the last one if it made him personally richer, and he thought it could get him the approval he so desperately wants from rich people.

Next he is going to reinvent the wheel. Hasn't he already taken credit for discovering fire?

[NewJeffCT]

11. Last year the trade deficit was $800 billion

that was on your watch, buddy.

[DeminPennswoods]

12. Even if manufacturing comes back, the jobs

won't because of technology and automation. It simply does not take as much labor to produce manufactured goods as it did even 30 years ago. Where I live, Shell is building a gigantic ethane cracker complex, but when finished it will only employ 600 people where as 30-40 years ago, it might have employed 1000's. There is plenty of work for skilled tradesmen like electricians, carpenters, plumbers, etc, but permanent, direct manufacturing jobs will be relatively few.

[Nitram]

14. Dump will promise anything to anybody.

[SWBTATTReg]

15. President Idiot, who's a joke, a fraud and a crook speaks again...and says nothing worth listening

to. I've lost all interest in listening to this guy, as well as anything the gop-controlled congress says anymore. Proven quite handily of their inability to govern for the people by the people.

The gop, party of the rich.

Plain and as simple as the nose on your face.

[Initech]

16. Snake oil salesman gonna sell snake oil.

[dalton99a]

17. Put everyone back in the factory

[ginnyinWI]

18. Ah yes, back to the Guilded Age.

Or better yet, back to the days of kings and serfs!! Any time when the little people must slave away, with few rights and privileges, for their wealthy masters. Only then will America be great again!!

[Historic NY]

20. Does he realize like himself, American companies went off-shore

to make more money and pay less for employees. His new tactics will only make goods more expensive.

[Javaman]

21. without unions of course, right orange asshole?

fuck this pig

[jmowreader]

22. There are two ways to accomplish that

The people who manufacture don’t want to do it in the US because the laws are much more favorable to robber barons in the Pacific Rim. So...two paths will cause manufacturing to return.

First is to eliminate all wage, environmental and safety laws. I mean, come on: America was great during the era of the Triangle Shirtwaist Company. That should bring the manufacturers back in droves.

The other is to set up a network of people’s owned factories, and allow American companies to contract their manufacturing to them. These VEB will pay $8.50 per hour and barracks housing, and you’ll have to join them for life. It worked great in East Germany.

[TheFrenchRazor]

23. of course trump is an idiot, but bringing back US manufacturing jobs is not a bad idea. nt