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The Biggest Shot of Adrenaline Into U.S.
Manufacturing Since WWII

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Posted By: ConservativeYankee, 4/28/2025 12:26:13 PM

We might be about to witness "the single biggest shot of adrenaline into U.S. manufacturing capacity since World War II," according to a new analysis of the defense supplementary bill working its way through the House. On Friday, I gave readers a look at the elements involving national missile defense — President Donald Trump's "Golden Dome" — but there's so much more to it than that. Aaron Slodov, analyst and creator of the REINDUSTRIALIZE summit, took a deeper look inside the $150 billion bill this weekend and found a lot to like. More than 10% — $25 billion — is "aimed squarely at building things – new shipyard

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Mr Clean 4/28/2025 1:04:35 PM (No. 1941722)
If new manufacturing jobs are created, who will fill them? There are a half-million or so jobs unfilled right now because people—especially young people—are either unable or unwilling to do the work.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Californian 4/28/2025 1:48:52 PM (No. 1941753)
This is fake industrial growth. It's similar to broken window theory. Yes we absolutely need a strong military and all that requires but this is a net cost to the economy not a net gain. Missiles sitting in silos that are hopefully never used do not generate useful productive output. Building houses, cars, roads, power plants, house hold goods, growing food, and so on are all useful productive output. Weapons are a necessary drag on the economy.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: RobertJ984 4/28/2025 1:53:55 PM (No. 1941758)
#1. We move people from fast food restaurants to high paying manufacturing jobs. If tens of thousands of McDonald's, Burger King, Starbucks, convenience stores close...all will be ok
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Sunhan65 4/28/2025 4:43:35 PM (No. 1941841)
FTA: "The value of manufactured goods has actually grown by 85% since NAFTA came into force on Jan. 1, 1994. But the economy has grown by nearly 2.5 times since then. So as a share of all economic output, manufacturing — and the skilled, better-paying jobs that go with it — has shrunk from about 16% of the entire economy in 1994 to slightly under 10% today." So, manufacturing output has nearly doubled during the time we've been told freer trade was hollowing out our industrial base? And manufacturing has only declined as a percentage of GNP because the rest of the economy grew even faster? Those both sound like what's supposed to happen when government gets out of the way Stipulated: Some industries can be so important to national security and beneficial to economic prosperity that government intervention to sponsor and/or protect them is justified. For example, there is strong case that the microchip industry doesn't happen in the US without the Apollo program. And I'm gung ho on anything to do with missile defense for many reasons. But a tariff is a tax, and taxes don't produce prosperity. Productivity, technology, and trade do.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: homefry 4/29/2025 7:19:19 AM (No. 1942142)
Should say, after the end of WWII.
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