Jay Bazzinotti
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Is it possible for the United States to be very independent from products made from China?
It’s no longer possible.

Here is Bridgeport, Connecticut.

This was a machine factory, specifically they made machines that made guns for Remington Arms. They outsource all that to china.

Here is Lowell, Ma

This is where American textiles took the world by storm. Every single one of those buildings in the picture are either abandoned or converted into condos. The canal, once critical to production, was filled with industrial waste, stolen cars and rubbish til the Federal Government cleaned it out.

Here is the Intel chip making plant in Texas:

Over 20 years, this is the last major chip making plant in America. It costs like 7 billion dollars to build a precision plant like this. National Semiconductor, AMD, Analog, etc have moved their production to China and Taiwan where it’s cheap to make chips.

No one wants to build anything in America.

The salaries are too high; the workers are too lazy; the real estate is too expensive and every single thing that is made has an “environmental tax” associated with it. There is a cost to protecting the environment and that cost is passed onto the consumer. In Mexico they can pour their industrial waste right into the water and never have to pass that cost onto the consumer. It’s why we, at Cisco Systems, closed all our manufacturing plants in Salem, Ma and moved everything to Mexico. Because it added 4 profit margin points to the bottom line. It was sad that 300 skilled factory workers had to be laid off, but hey, that’s the price of profit.

We cannot build here in the US anymore unless people are willing to pay more, usually for less, and they aren’t willing to do that. For a short while, Walmart tried to have a patriotic “Made in America” program but no one bought the products. They were a few cents more than the cheap shit (and I do mean shit) they got from China. China plows industrial poison right into the soil where they grow their food. They sell white paint as baby formula. Of course their products are cheaper.

Capitalism requires management to seek the lowest cost of production to achieve the greatest profit. It’s why most factories always looked so shitty even in their heyday. They weren’t going to waste money on replacing broken glass in the factory windows or painting the buildings. Profit is king. Profit is everything. And if it’s cheaper to produce in China then that is what we will do because Capitalism is the rule, not employment, not patriotism, not worker welfare, not quality. Only profit and short-term profit at that.

Here is Bridgeport, Connecticut.