Posted on Nov 29, 2021
US needs 'manufacturing renaissance' to compete with China: Report - Breaking Defense
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A new report calls for a US “manufacturing renaissance” amid an intensifying economic and national security competition with China, which has openly stated it intends to displace the US as the world’s leading economy in coming decades.
The new report from the Reagan Institute, titled “A Manufacturing Renaissance: Bolstering U.S. Production for National Security and Economic Prosperity,” provides four recommendations to strengthen the US manufacturing base. These include modernizing the Defense Production Act, enlarging the US workforce for high-demand trades, creating new public-partnerships and financial incentives to strengthen economic sectors important to national security, and facilitating new forums with G7 and Quad (US, India, Japan, and Australia) countries to coordinate on economic issues.
The new report from the Reagan Institute, titled “A Manufacturing Renaissance: Bolstering U.S. Production for National Security and Economic Prosperity,” provides four recommendations to strengthen the US manufacturing base. These include modernizing the Defense Production Act, enlarging the US workforce for high-demand trades, creating new public-partnerships and financial incentives to strengthen economic sectors important to national security, and facilitating new forums with G7 and Quad (US, India, Japan, and Australia) countries to coordinate on economic issues.
US needs 'manufacturing renaissance' to compete with China: Report - Breaking Defense
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A good start would be having a school system that doesn't look down on trade schools and blue collar jobs as options
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SMSgt Lawrence McCarter
For certain and the skills that come from trade schools cover area that are needed but not that many are capable of doing. Often people in many of those skill areas make a good living and don't do without anything. Once You lose those people Who actually do the needed work there is a major problem. Paperwork and far out ideas don't replace hands on skill !
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If we can keep government out of it, the country will continue to lead the world. The more government interferes, the more we become like China and Russia.
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A big problem with this line of thought is all the kids running around with Liberal arts degrees, that think this kind of work is below them. They don't realize that Unionized factory workers make a good wage, better than barristas and burger flippers, and they have health care and other bene's. As to the products coming out of China, I was a factory maintenance guy, in the early 80's, before I enlisted and had already learned that the products were inferior. The Chinese don't create new tech, they copy it from other countries and can't seem to get it right. On numerous occasions I have seen purchasing buy a Chinese machine because it was cheaper and then engineering would have to disassemble the machine and spend the difference in cost to replace a component that the Chinese copy has no hope of getting correctly made or fitted, after some catastrophic failure. Even a simple thing like poring molten metal in to a mold. There's a reason we turn up our noses when we see the "Made in China" label.
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