The Daily Populous Saturday May 2nd, 2026 evening edition
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Dredkinetic on May 1st, 2026 at 21:56 UTC »

Manufacturing can't come back to the United States.. there's no universe where that math would make any kind of fucking sense. China can do whatever we can do, but faster and at far lower cost. They're not even the ONLY ones, just an example.

Source: I work in the steel industry in the US ..and we only exist because what our company does is highly specific.

thunderGunXprezz on May 1st, 2026 at 22:23 UTC »

We literally ship whole products halfway across the world to be "processed" and then back again because it's cheaper than doing it here.

Qcgreywolf on May 1st, 2026 at 22:23 UTC »

Tariffs are NOT the way to bring manufacturing back to the USA.

I work in advanced manufacturing. *All* of the equipment that *makes stuff* is made in other countries. As in, the stuff that “makes” the fan? And the components that make up the fan? Those machines are made in Germany or Sweden or Japan.

That means, and I’ll keep this simple for the knuckle-draggers, that if a business man wants to create a new business that makes doo-dads here in the USA, they have to buy Doo-Dad Making Machjnes from another country. At a massive tariff inflated price.

This is *exactly the opposite* of “bringing manufacturing back” to the USA.

Tariffs are supposed to be a scalpel, not a nuke that you drop on everything.