jyoutz
Super Member
My brother in law worked over 20 years fabricating Walker mowers in Fort Collins, Colorado. They had a a robust business until the tariffs increased their steel prices by 25%. They had to raise mower prices. Sales fell off and the company had to downsize their workforce. He voluntarily retired because he was eligible, just to allow younger people to stay employed. He told me that the tariffs hit all companies that do steel fabrication hard. I saw thousands of acres of soybeans being plowed under in Arkansas when China boycotted US agriculture. No I don’t have an answer to recreating a 1970s era manufacturing workforce in the U.S., but it’s obvious that simple tariffs have resulted in unintended consequences and were largely a bust that caused inflationary price increases.Well, I’d like to throw my arms up and surrender like you cause that would be easy, but instead, I’d like to start new programs in secondary schools to encourage kids to take up jobs working with their hands and tamp down the Ivy league criticism of kids that want to do that, too.
I’d suggest the tarriffs again until the Chinese comply. Yes, there will be pain, but the alternative is worse.
If we don’t, you’ll be getting your next Cummins and pretty much everything else from China.
You want that?