Meanwhile, back in reality
Bloomberg: US South Accounts for Lion’s Share of Factory Construction Boom https://archive.is/URbMw
Bloomberg Video from a year ago "factory construction has doubled": https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2023-10-06/the-america...
"So one was just like, "Oh yeah, they got those higher starting wages." If you're walking in with no background in manufacturing, no skills that you could point to, the starting wages are in the like $17.50 to $22 an hour range depending on the role" https://www.volts.wtf/p/how-is-new-clean-energy-manufacturin...
This is not from tariffs, it's from carrots in tax incentives, used to build up the entire supply chain, not just a few factories.
If you have empty shelves in grocery stores, where the hell are you living? You expect me to not believe my own eyes, and imagine some empty grocery store shelves? If so, it's your own area's politics that are causing the problem. Wages are waaaaay up, especially on the lower end, much less on the top end.
The economy in the US is blowing away China, Europe, etc. We are so strong right now. If you are not doing well in your own micro area, look internally to see how your area is fucking up so much when there's opportunity everywhere.
Starting wages increasing by 20% for the first time in a decade doesn't even keep up with inflation.
You are so strong you have to completely change trade policy to a protectionist one. China is the one to watch for the next decade.
The USSR also had fanatical members of the Youth Comsomol who'd loudly denounce anyone who questioned the party line as either insane or "anti-Soviet". That's what you and your comrades are doing.
But really, it doesn't matter if Pravda reports a new record in farm production every other week - the people still see the empty shelves in the grocery stores.
US manufacturing growth is manufactured as follows: use tariffs to ban much cheaper (and frequently better) goods and demand that they are produced locally. Or even better: make components for a fleet of ships that costs $4B each and that nobody needs and that gets canceled (see: Zumwalt). Step 2: use the ridiculously inflated costs as proof that manufacturing is growing (hey, you just need a big number).