America Is Back in the Factory Business

[22lcidw]

What socialist government are you talking about?

All the government programs. At all levels of government. Federal, local, city, state and regional. Salaries and pensions and welfare and abuse of social security and Medicare benefits. Welfare and Medicaid with lifetime membership due to promoting irresponsible ways of living the norm.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

All the government programs. At all levels of government. Federal, local, city, state and regional. Salaries and pensions and welfare and abuse of social security and Medicare benefits. Welfare and Medicaid with lifetime membership due to promoting irresponsible ways of living the norm.

So, the military is socialism?

 

[sartre play]

America Is Back in the Factory Business

Record spending on manufacturing construction heralds a made-in-the-U.S. rebound, stoked by green-energy incentives and concerns about foreign supply chains.

www.wsj.com

Production at U.S. factories rose last year, but few things were produced at a more furious pace than factories themselves.

Construction spending related to manufacturing reached $108 billion in 2022, Census Bureau data show, the highest annual total on record—more than was spent to build schools, healthcare centers or office buildings.

New factories are rising in urban cores and rural fields, desert flats and surf towns. Much of the growth is coming in the high-tech fields of electric-vehicle batteries and semiconductors, national priorities backed by billions of dollars in government incentives. Other companies that once relied exclusively on lower-cost countries to manufacture eyeglasses and bicycles and bodybuilding supplements have found reasons to come home.

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Today U.S. manufacturing employment is holding steady at about 10% of the private sector, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, with nearly 800,000 jobs added in the sector over the past two years. The total number, 13 million, was virtually unchanged in the latest BLS jobs report.

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The industry is actually hurting for workers—about 800,000 more are needed, according to the National Association of Manufacturers—leading to concerns that labor shortages and other bottlenecks could short-circuit the boom.

“I can bring back all the orders I want; there will be no one to make them,” said Harry Moser, president of the Reshoring Initiative, which advocates for bringing manufacturing jobs back to the U.S.

Huge government incentives are stoking the frenzy. The Biden administration, seeing electric vehicles and semiconductors as matters of national security, has devoted billions of dollars to expanding those industries in the U.S. States are kicking in billions more.


We have had way too many manufacturing jobs open up in the past two years. Now there is an actual shortage of people to fill those jobs.

I blame Biden.

Hope that's true,
Being dependent on China, (who are buying up everything they can here) makes for insecurity.
Plus huge corporations(world wide) taking control of to much,
& raising prices because they can, due to lack of competition.