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IMO if Trump is serious about bringing manufacturing back to US, his No.1 job is to remove all middle-high managers from all government agencies. The whole gov
by markus_zhang 2y ago
IMO if Trump is serious about bringing manufacturing back to US, his No.1 job is to remove all middle-high managers from all government agencies.
The whole government has been bathing in the globalization alcohol for so many years that there is a huge interest group rooted for it to go forever. You can't do much without removing this group.
There is no "legal", "orderly" retreat from the current situation IMHO. It's going to be messy. The issue is whether Trump is doing the job or he is just faking it for whatever the reasons.
- pjc50 2y ago> There is no "legal", "orderly" retreat from the current situation IMHO. It's going to be messy. .. so what's the point of this again?
- markus_zhang 2y agoWhat's the point of what?
- pjc50 2y agoThe "retreat" (in which direction) from the "current situation" (US richest country in the world, as they keep reminding us "Europoors"). What's the US supposed to look like after this purge?
- markus_zhang 2y ago(just a disclaimer that I do not agree or disagree with this bringing back manufacturing to the US, the discussion is solely based on the supposition that Trump wants to bring it back) Once the purge is done in the public and private sectors (yeah you can imagine that such interest groups exist everywhere), Trump and his allies need to install competitive people to create and execute policies to "bring manufacturing back". Failing either of the two (purging and reinstalling competitive policy makers) fails the job.
- NoMoreNicksLeft 2y agoRich in what, exactly? Inflated stock prices? Inflated home prices? Empty processed-food calories? Are we the richest in recently-built public infrastructure or intellectual property (or both!!)? Maybe we're the richest in collateralized debt obligations? No one in the United States feels rich, when we look around, we don't see wealth or prosperity. We suspect, though we'd feel silly to say it out loud, that if anyone ever busted into Fort Knox and looked in the vaults, those would be empty of the gold that it was once famous for. >What's the US supposed to look like after this purge? I imagine we'll look like what we really have been for a long while, instead of this illusion that everyone has of us.
- jajko 2y agoCome on, US is rich, even compared to Europe. Sure, its just pure money and not happiness, health, safety, high quality education or healthcare availability but raw numbers are there. It will get poorer economically in upcoming years thanks to gov moves, the wheels have been set in motion. Maybe dollar will tank so that my first sentence won't be valid anymore. Not sure it will be balanced with rest above though.
- czzr 2y agoAmerica is the richest country in the world. Guess you won’t know how good you have it until you destroy it.
- germinalphrase 2y agoWhy do you assume it’s governmental middle management that is the driving force of globalization? That project has been a mainstream private industry prerogative for 40+ years.
- markus_zhang 2y agoIt's definitely both, and you can see I mentioned it in a follow-up reply to another commenter. But Trump can only impact public sector at the moment, right?
- UncleMeat 2y agoIs this a threat? To mass murder government bureaucrats?
- markus_zhang 2y agoWhat? I said nothing about murder.
- UncleMeat 2y agoI'm curious what your illegal and disorderly path is specifically.
- markus_zhang 2y agoRight now it seems to be pretty disorderly, not sure about illegal but aren't a lot of things Trump did seem to zero challenge from Congress? I could be wrong definitely.