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U.S. Secretary of Commerce says the ‘new model’ is factory jobs for life—for you, your kids, and your grandkids

fortune.com U.S. Secretary of Commerce says the ‘new model’ is factory jobs for life—for you, your kids, and your grandkids

“This is the new model, where you work in these plants for the rest of your life, and your kids work here, and your grandkids work here,” U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick says.

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To be fair, this is what this government promised. The issue is that the voters just took it in
- That poll showing 80% of voters want manufacturing jobs to come back to America but 20% of voters would willingly choose to work a factory job says everything.
  
  Yeah, it says why are we schlepping parts all over the world to be assembled by poors in SEA, when we got our own poors stuck in the middle of the country with nothing to do but meth and fentanyl.
  /s
  On a more serious note, moving manufacturing back to the states will take some stupid number of years even if they start now, just to build the factories and the associated infrastructure. If only voters hadn't let the capitalist class gut domestic manufacturing in the first place...
  
  moving manufacturing back to the states will take some stupid number of years even if they start now
  Now, come on. I've been to Bethlehem, PA! The facility is just sitting there waiting to be used!
  
  /s
  
  Looks perfectly there to me.
  
  Yes, the 2024 election was truly a vote for misinformation over any policy.
  Fox and the right have spent decades pushing various "this is what America needs" narratives but they're a contradictory mess that neither matches reality nor is coherent. This about the manufacturing jobs is one. See also: states' rights (except when the right controls the federal government and blue states don't follow), cutting spending (except when we want to give tax cuts to billionaires), back-the-blue and law-and-order (except when we are staging an insurrection and deporting citizens), etc.
  The reason this happens is because those narratives were always propaganda purely to win elections and create hate for the other side, and that is because they were always about gaining power for its own sake, not about a worldview or concrete goals.
  2024 showed that delusion wins over facts. So now the right is living in a pure fantasy, made of construction paper and rotting cardboard facade that they demand we acknowledge as a sparkling utopia, and we're all stuck in it.
  
  People would work factory jobs, if they were good paying jobs.
  If you could own a home, afford groceries, raise a family, save for retirement, and take a modest family vacation, there would be lines out door applying for these jobs.
  But these aren't the factory jobs of the 1950s, those kind of wages aren't coming back.
  
  Yes please. Just give me job that pays me enough to live working 40 hours a week. Health insurance and an apartment without roommates. The ability to eat out on weekends. I’ll press a button for 40 hours or something.
  
  LOL, they could come back with a few guillotines. How many filthy rich would have to die? Some assembly required.
  
  I want manufacturing jobs to come back. We are transitioning to new technologies where there are not yet entrenched manufacturing dominance: it would be much easier to create jobs related to this, supplies chains related to this, market domination is still possible. We were late to the game after throwing away the early lead but we had our chance. We had investments. We had the economy finally turning. Yep, threw that away too.
  We were finally turning toward indefinite energy independence. Still trying to throw that away.
  All to fight the industrial battles of half a century ago, try to compete where there are no longer jobs, fight to wrest control of supply chains from entrenched leaders, compete on race to the bottom salaries

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