HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE?

Construction Common Sense

The United States forsook its “Can Do!” spirit in exchange for lower cost manufactured goods from overseas. While the Nixon administration opened up diplomatic relations with China as a gesture of goodwill, the Clinton administration gave away the farm. Made in USA became Made in China. The Obama/Biden administrations’ push to Green Energy made things even worse. Our energy supremacy was eroded as coal, petroleum and nuclear energy were vilified by the “fake news” and the Greta Thunberg environmental acolytes.

Now I know the term “fake news” originated with Donald Trump. But it is apparent that there has been no traditional investigative journalism for a very long time. The corruption began when politics became the main focus, not fact finding. Woodward and Bernstein got the Pulitzer for bringing down a president. Another Pulitzer went to the “fake” Russian Collusion “journalists” while the real story was on Hunter Biden’s laptop. That was ignored since the would-be Hunter Biden scandal didn’t fit the anti-Trump narrative of the legacy media. There was no investigative journalism coming from the social media giants either, just censorship of the real news.

Now the legacy media is continuing its assault on Trump with a new wave of fake news about tariffs and their effect on the economy while simultaneously supporting the Democrats’ lawfare against deporting illegal aliens. For a bunch of lawyers, the Democrats appear to be ignorant of the scope of Due Process under the U.S. Constitution. But I digress.

Back to the main topic. It probably takes a few years to built a factory from scratch (unless you’re Elon Musk). And that’s after getting the permits. And the petroleum exploration and development time-frame is at least five years not including the permitting process controlled by environmental wackos. And we haven’t built a refinery in years. Those that we still operate were designed to refine crude oil from Venezuela. Thank goodness we developed “fracking” or we would be in real trouble.

We may be able to bring our older manufacturing plants back on line more quickly than building new ones but they won’t be as efficient as their overseas competitors. So America will need to be patient while we reestablish our manufacturing prowess. It is going to take longer than a couple of years to fill Walmart and Amazon warehouses with high quality Made in USA products. In the meantime, a little honest journalism would be helpful.