eagleye13 Loc: Fl

I sure hope Trump is paying attention.

jack sequim wa Loc: Blanchard, Idaho

Facilities that have been vacant for 15-20 years, retooling , installing equipment and machinery that in many cases needs to be built (in China ) permits and legal logistics, from commitment to doors open in most cases is an 18-36 month project. What part of my first reply did you object to?

jack sequim wa Loc: Blanchard, Idaho

I have a 30+ year personal knowledge of the oyster/clan industry and your argument does not apply (go back and reread what I wrote ) the red tide has not been a 40 year problem. And what I wrote apply to the tuna/ albacore industry also along with hundreds of others.

Moving a manufacturing company back to the USA after being gone 15-20 is not a few month project. 18 months would be ideal, 24-36months realistic. To believe they could return to the exact same location and turn on the lights is not reality.

Here is a link to an official government import trade data, covering several years.

http://www.tradingeconomics.com/united-states/imports

jack sequim wa Loc: Blanchard, Idaho

Trump, Pence are the very "Very" last possible chance to break the chains of America from the global agenda.

Oil independence is a must, period, next is manufacturing independence, period.

You have heard about emp attacks on our electrical grid, or an X 7-9 scale solar flar. If turbine generators were fried at our power plants, the only resource for a replacement comessage from China and an order of 1 takes a year. Under extreme conditions I sure several could be manufactured, after a period of time to tool up additional machinery.
My point is America (as you know) does not make many, many things that America needs to function, in order to break the chains.
Next Trum3p would have to file bankruptcy (2nd term) in order to be freed from global banking , thus removing all debt (specifically international debt, not national debt to independent contractors ) and return to the gold standard. Slow population growth through tough immigration laws, tight restrictions limited like Canada does, have large cash reserves and business plan, or higher education and large cash reserves with ability to contribute to society, or no citizenship. Green cards are very limited and very strict.
Can you imagine holding a dollar bill worth 97 cents or even a full dollar?


I just looked up, in 1977 a dollar then was equal today to over four dollars today. Another way to put it one dollar in 1977 was worth about twenty five cents and today a dollar is worth less than ten cents.

In 1977 I was 17 years of age cooking tableside at a water front restaurant south of Seattle. At $5.25 per hour plus tips, living single, could afford housing , utilities, food, gas, entertainment. Minimum wage at the time was $2.65

Had the dollar been worth 95 cents, instead of 25 cents, well you get the point. Try doing the exact same job today, at today's wages, and housing would be a dump, none or nearly no entertainment, food- poor diet, high in carbs.

eagleye13 Loc: Fl

Not easy or fast. 30 years late.
BUT
It has to happen. NOW! or never?
Our situation was a set up:
“Actions at the multinational level will be needed, if the process of international relocation of industries is to be accelerated in an organized fashion…….” TC Report #23, ******* 1982

Some bums are being thrown out of DC.
More to come, hopefully.

BTW; I was a Facilities Mechanical/HVAC engineer with McDonnell Douglas Astronautics, in Huntington Beach, Cal. (now Boeing) when they lifted our presses and other equipment, and sent them to Red China.

Robert Wilson Loc: Texas

I believe that a tax break is good for manufacturing, if you include taxation of incoming goods from foreign entities.