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Friday 19th of April 2024

Apple, Inc. What is good for Apple may not be good for America. It shuttered its last US production facility in 2004. Edward Luce, The Retreat of Western Liberalism  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Asslickers America's National Association of Manufacturers gave Ivanka Trump, the president's daughter, its prestigious Alexander Hamilton award this year. “Like no one in government has ever done, she has provided singular leadership and shown an unwavering commitmwent to manufacturing,” said the industry group, in what ought to have earned it the Order of Sycophancy. Edward Luce, Financial Times, July 16, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Asslickers say Ivanka Trump embodies the collaborative spirit and relentless drive needed to solve manufacturers' most pressing challenge – the workforce crisis. Like no one in government has ever done, she has provided singular leadership and shown an unwavering commitment to modern manufacturing in America. From the February 1, 2020, National Association of Manufacturers' press release announcing that “Advisor to the President Ivanka Trump will be the inaugural recipient of the association's Alexander Hamilton Award.” © 2020 Kwiple.com
By the numbers Although manufacturing now barely reaches double digits as a share of the U.S. economy, it accounts for almost three-quarters of private sector R&D spending in the United States. Edward Luce, Time to Start Thinking  © 2017 Kwiple.com
By the numbers Amount that Carrier promised to invest in an Indiana plant in a deal with Donald Trump to save domestic jobs: $16,000,000 Percentage of that money that will be used for automation: 100 Harper's Index, September 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
By the numbers From 2000 to 2010, the United States lost some 5.6 million manufacturing jobs, by the government's calculation. Only 13 percent of those job losses can be explained by trade, according to an analysis by the Center for Business and Economic Research at Ball State University in Indiana. The rest were casualties of automation or the result of tweaks to factory operations that enabled more production with less labor. New York Times, September 29, 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk say When I run for president in 2024, we would have created so many jobs that I'm not going to run; I'm going to walk. Kanye West, a.k.a Ye a.k.a Yeezus a.k.a. Louis Vuitton Don a.k.a. Yeezy a.k.a. Saint Pablo a.k.a. Christian Billionaire Genius, on opening a shoe manufacturing facility for his shoe brand in Cody, Wyoming © 2022 Kwiple.com
Corporate welfare As the data centers' labor needs have shifted [from low- to high-skilled jobs], tech companies have begun breaking ground in less rural areas. New Albany, the wealthy suburb of Columbus, Ohio, where Facebook is putting a $750 million facility, has a poverty rate below 3 per- cent, an unemployment rate of around 4 percent, and a median household income of $196,000. Even so, Ohio is offering $371,000 in tax credits for each of the 100 full-time positions Facebook has promised there–none of which is likely to provide a lifeline to a laid-off factory worker. Bloomberg Businessweek, October 2, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Elites say Export factories, import workers © 2017 Kwiple.com
Globalization Ideally, you'd have every plant you own on a barge to move with currencies and changes in the economy. Jack Welch © 2017 Kwiple.com
Innovation To innovate, you must make  saying at DARPA [Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency] © 2017 Kwiple.com
Kwiple dictionary reshoring (ri shôr'ing), n. Replacing low-paid workers overseas with cheaper robots here. © 2017 Kwiple.com
Manufacturing By one measure, the average manufacturing worker in the United States earned nine per cent less in 2015 than the average worker in 1973, while the economy over all grew by two hundred per cent. Sheelah Kolhatkar, New Yorker, October 23, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Manufacturing Driving U.S. Factories: Foreign Robotics — — — — — — — — — — — Manufacturing rebound means buying modern machinery from overseas headline, Wall Street Journal, March 27, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Manufacturing The factory is a device for making workmen hurry. Aldous Huxley, The Olive Tree  © 2022 Kwiple.com
Manufacturing The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment. Warren Bennis © 2016 Kwiple.com
Manufacturing In all, there were more than 350,000 manufacturing establishments with no employee other than the owner in 2014, up almost 17% from 2004, according to the most recent Commerce Department data. By comparison, there were 292,543 establishments with other employees, down 12%. The shift creates a challenge for building back the number of jobs in the U.S. manufacturing sector. Wall Street Journal, December 29, 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
Manufacturing  It is hard to believe that manu- facturing or information technology will ever recover in the West, no matter how many robots are installed, visas rescinded, trade agreements ripped up or walls built. Robert C. Allen © 2017 Kwiple.com
Manufacturing Remember in the old days they used to have “Made in USA” … We're going to start doing that again. Donald Trump, speaking about companies other than his and Ivanka's at a White House event, Made in America Day, which launched Made in America Week, which he promised would lead to Made in America Decades © 2017 Kwiple.com
Manufacturing Valuable semi-skilled manufacturing jobs are not, for the most part, going to return to America, or anywhere else, because they were not simply shipped abroad. They were destroyed by new ways of boosting productivity and reducing costs which heightened the distinction between routine labour and the rest of manufacturing. There is no vice that can squeeze those genies back into their bottles. Economist, January 14, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Offshoring Some firms recognise that outsourcing production to cheaper locations has eroded innovation, says Ludovico Alcorta at UNIDO [United Nations Industrial Development Organization]. When production is moved elsewhere, opportunities to learn how to do it do it better are often lost. The development of new products and processes can suffer, as can interactions with research organisations and universities. Economist, January 14, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Punt returners say How are you going to get them to buy Fords? Walter Reuther, leader of the United Automobile Workers, responding to a Ford Motor Company official who, pointing to robots in a newly opened fully automated engine plant, said, “How are you going to collect   union dues from these guys?” [many variations exist] © 2017 Kwiple.com
Robots A decade ago, industrial robots assisted workers in their tasks. Now workers – those who remain – assist the robots in theirs. Sheelah Kolhatkar, New Yorker, October 23, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Snapshot He lives in the 1950s. In those days, things were made in one country – usually America – and then sold in another – preferably just about everywhere else. The modern world of bits and pieces, with components and semi-finished products moving to and fro across borders, does not fit the president's template. Donald Trump portrayed by Philip Stephens © 2015 Kwiple.com
 
Taxes Under the new law, income made by American companies' overseas subsidiaries will face United States taxes that are half the rate applied to their domestic income, 10.5 percent compared with the new top corporate rate of 21 percent. … Under the new rules, beyond the lower rate, companies will not have to pay United States taxes on the money they earn from plants or equipment located abroad, if those earnings amount to 10 percent or less of the total investment. New York Times, January 8, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com