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Nobody wants to admit American manufacturing just hit a new low
5 Apr 2023 ~~ By Jazz ShawIn case you hadn’t noticed, President Joe Biden has been making a number of appearances lately at manufacturing plants. These trips included a microchip plant in North Carolina and a “green energy” plant in Minnesota. He’s been attempting to show voters how his policies are driving an economic comeback in the manufacturing sector, particularly for projects to save the climate or whatever. But as usual, the real story of American manufacturing is quite different than the one that the White House is trying to sell. As was reported in the Free Beacon on Monday, analysts are keeping a close eye on the Institute for Supply Management’s manufacturing index, known as PMI. It’s a key indicator of how strong manufacturing actually is in the United States. And this week, the index fell to the lowest level seen since the pandemic began.
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Not all of this contraction in the manufacturing sector can be pinned directly on Joe Biden and his policies. (Though he’s clearly not helping.) Analysts studying these trends have been pointing out for a while now that most manufacturing companies have increased automation at a steady pace. More and more traditional assembly and production jobs have been eliminated. That doesn’t necessarily mean that the company is producing fewer goods. They just use fewer human beings to create them.
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No workers. No raw materials to work with, even if we had the workers to do the work.
Let’s Go, Brandon!
The Quisling Media will never report it.
It’s like the Soviet press that constantly harped about “Record” Harvests. While Ukrainians starved to death.
Indeed, China builds coal power plants daily so they will have electricity to support their manufacturing. The US closes coal power plants.
All I see when I see Biden visiting these plants is the Kim family visits to Nork production plants where there is no sign of actual production/products except for maybe a barrel or a can or two on an otherwise empty roller conveyer.
It will get even lower under the remaining Biden regime. How can you expect otherwise when the energy industry is severely damaged? Progress will require energy and we are denying ourselves this commodity. Only countries like China, Russia, India and North Korea are winners because they ignore the climate change fools and just continue doing it their own way at our foolish expense.