04/29/2025
“The U.S. is at a state of development where it has moved beyond manufacturing,” Jayant Menon, a research fellow at ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, previously told TIME. “This is what manufacturing countries are trying to aspire to, and this guy is trying to go the other way.” -TIME MAG
Now, I'm not an economist by a long-shot. But I do know Jayant Menon has his finger firmly on the pulse of not only American employment and our economy, but additionally, the relationship of different parts of any National economy (such as manufacturing, finance, trade deficits, etc..) He is spot on in his appraisal of Trump's shift backward in a vacuum, breaking everything of progress that's been made—like a long line of dominos one put forward after another for miles, until some ignoramus sets one moving backward, collapsing the whole line in chaos. Sound pretty much about right? And yes, a portion of our population would go back or go into manufacturing, but we no longer have the cultural or societal architecture to be a Nation whose focus is manufacturing; to my mind the only thing that might change that is a war. The same is true for our agricultural infrastructures. Yes we have farmers in the heartland. But we are not going to be able to get enough local people to harvest fruit, take on domestic and service-industry housecleaning or become ditch diggers en masse. These issues have been apparent for nearly two decades or more. Trump has taken this whole economic aspect out of context, placed it out of time and America's economic history, as well as our human, and economic global interdependence.
No wonder, the Chinese are laughing their butts off and making AI videos mocking Trump and his Administration’s policies, our economy and American workers.
https://youtu.be/AJnd3EXeY30
