According to Motley Fool, the real problem was that when the virus first hit all the auto companies cancelled orders. Chip factories didn't care, the electronics biz is way bigger than auto (auto is about 10%) so they just redistributed the orders. Then later on car sales were higher than expected but too late, too bad so sad auto guys. Production time already be sold to others ...
Like so many things, stupid decisions being blamed on the virus when the truth is different.
EG so the pandemic hits everyone’s life is drastically changed so much that businesses are idled across the country and things get tough. So much so that the government sent out money to business, some was stolen or received unnecessarily.
The small business owner often was last in line. All of this effected the Auto makers. (American and foreign import)
So they cancelled what would anyone do? It is because we send many things someplace else to be made. We likely have forgotten how to put together manufacturing operations.
They have been gone so long that even people in our current trade feel smarmy about it all. How we are a bad country in decline and can never pull out.
You reflect negative views of the US frequently and you often can make compelling points. But I will point this out “No one ever called me a imperialist.”
You could yet you know that I am Americans first that includes those who are misguided in their judgement about us and feel we will continue to be dependent of overseas manufacturing.
I believe we have the know how for clean manufacturing.
The engrained systems of manufacturing which we shear off could not be reformed they had to be essentially killed off.
They were as in other Western countries and we have paid a heavy price. Good paying jobs left in vast numbers as homeless rates and social ills rose. This has happened over decades.
Had it been the case that we did have the will and the restraint from shipping our manufacturing base out of the US and the quality of patience we could be much better off. So would other trading partners. There is enough for us all I think.
Lots of mistakes even encouraged and supported by government have occurred. It is understandable that we hear criticisms which persons such as yourself have given in the past as vocal and harsh as they can be sometimes. Noted.
So you and some others are somewhat alienated and set adrift and you are angry. Your counter opposed friends are also. They are just as angry.
Excess anger is very counterproductive as it blocks real progress. All that anyone has to do is open a wound and rub salt in. It is a distraction for distracted people and works well. New Factories? Yes we need them and they will be better than we had in the olden days. Americans want clean factories not the olden kind we sent away.
We can not be dependent if we are capable of being independent. Best regards.
Reis is correct. The opening of all of these prove that manufacturing is doable here. Imagine that our trade be reformed and viable again all of us compensated accordingly.
The exit of manufacturing highly desolated many Americans for a whole generation. Time to own up to that and reverse it. We have to have supply from right here in America first. Let’s not waste it fighting the whole dang world.