What have we done to our industrial base in the US? Why did we do it?

During the 2016 election, there was a lot of talk about jobs, mostly jobs lost to industries that collapsed. Sectors of our economy that were once strong and vibrant but traded with other nations are bad trade deals. Donald Trump is right, most of the major trade deals we have done have not been good for our economy in the long run, sure they may have earned us brownie points on the international stage and helped us out of ‘client nation’ other former superpowers and held back an emerging superpower, but what good is it if we don’t have decent jobs for our own citizens?

You should see the destruction we have done to the mining sector for no real reason, today we have amazing mining technologies to prevent environmental damage, but good luck trying to get it going again. How can we compete with manufacturing when the entire supply chain, from resources to finished cars, has been scrapped? We are so much better than this.

We have allowed our industrial capabilities to be crushed, and we have politicians pandering to the vocal minority and the incited media instead of reason and reality. It shouldn’t cost $50 million worth of EIR work and lawyers to get a refinery approved or a new strategy to add clean coal technology to an existing coal-fired power plant that has been around burning coal for power for 50 years. I thought we wanted cheap clean energy?

No, apparently we want to hijack the fossil fuel industry to siphon wealth from the industry to new unproven alternative energy people who are friends or relatives of Pelosi, Reid, or donated big money to the Obama Administration elections. And it’s not just the Democrats who are joining the frenzy of feeding crony capitalism, because when money flows into politics, people line up and throw away their politics, they just want to get rich, the problem is that we, the taxpayers, we’re screwed, and now we’re paying again in higher energy costs because of subsidies and inefficiencies.

Our companies are less competitive with higher energy costs for manufacturing, industry, mining, and therefore it is even more difficult to compete above the four items that I mentioned above. Of course, I am straying again. The point is, bad politics, cronyism, and attacks on our corporations by unions, class action lawyers, overregulation, and foreign influences have us running at 1500 RPM when we’re redlined at 5000. RPM. Think about this, because it’s fixable.