Written by Chriss W. Street
Feb 14, 2025
President Trump 47 in launching his Reindustrialization of America movement is directly confronting the theories of academic elites that all advanced nations are by definition “post-industrial.” Trump is naming and blaming elites for the tremendous losses of U.S. high-skilled and high-paid manufacturing jobs, and promising to bring those jobs back.
Michael Snyder in the Economic Collapse blog provides a list of 12 facts to vividly make the case that “de-industrialization polices” caused harm to millions of Americans:
1) According to Google AI, America lost almost 70,000 factories since the year 2000 and 5 million US manufacturing jobs;
2) U.S. population since July 1979 has doubled, but the number of American manufacturing jobs has fallen from 19.5 million to about 12.8 million;
3) Pew Research Center survey, 59% of Americans believe that the U.S. has lot more than it has gained from free trade;
4) Manufacturing has fallen from 28% of all U.S. economic output in 1959, 11.5% in 2008, and just 10.3 percent today;
5) Over 1 billion cell phones were sold last year, with just a few thousand of them are actually manufactured in the U.S.;
6) America’s trade deficit with China hit $295,000,000,000 in 2024;
7) China now produces about 4 times as many vehicles as the U.S.;
8) Semiconductors were originally invented in the U.S. and 100 percent manufactured in America, that number is now down to 8 percent;
9) Russia produces 3 times as many artillery shells as the U.S. and Europe combined;
10) U.S. spends approximately $3.00 on Chinese goods for every $1 that the Chinese spend on goods from the U.S.;
11) American retail stores are overflowing with products from China and soybeans are the top U.S. export to China;
12) A record 36 million Americans are now living in poverty, homelessness in the U.S. is at an all-time record high, and U.S. food bank demand is at record levels.
President Trump understands the Clinton administration granted China WTO most-favored-nation status in 1999 to address itscoming demographic collapse, due to farm modernization devaluing hundreds of millions of Chinese girls as potential mothers.
About 400 million mostly rural girls left their rural homes to work in coastal factories and live in dormitories. Coming from a culture where women never had access to money, girls were willing to work hard for six days per week at extremely low wages.
Twenty-five years later, most of those women never had children and are now beyond child-bearing. They “got old before they got rich,” with China locked into a demographic crash, with their population to falling from 1.4 billion in 2000, to 800million in 2050.
Chinese costal factories already are losing about 40 million workers each year due to retirement, with only about 12.5 million young people available as replacements. As a result, wages have risen to the point that China no longer has a low wage workforce.
When President Trump in his first term sought to bring back manufacturing jobs by restricting tech transfers and putting tariffs on Chinese steel and aluminum imports to the U.S., Deep State corporate elites screamed that the move would be inflationary.
But after Trump 45 lifted annual tariff collections from $35 billion when he took office in 2017 to about $80 billion when he left in 2021, the U.S. inflation rate was cut in half.
Mountain Top Times reported that President Trump 47 in his first two weeks in office launched six mini-trade-wars that succeeded in forcing Venezuela, Canada, Mexico,
Columbia Panama and Greenland to bend the knee to American free trade demands.
President Trump 47 just announced he intends to extend his victory streak with the imminent signing of “reciprocal tariffs”to counterbalance what he calls decades of unfair trade practices by foreign nations. Trump described the new tariff strategy as a willingness to retaliate against any country imposing a tariff on any American product.
Deep State political economists Radhika Desai, Michael Hudson, and Mick Dunford were apoplectically pearl-clutching yesterday, before lashing out against Trump’s tariffs as sure to backfire and accelerate the decline of U.S. dominance.
U.S. elites for decades have belittled the common man as incapable in knowing what is best. President Trump 47 is belittling the elites by ferociously pursuing common sense policies that speak directly to average Americans’ needs.
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