Once again... a request for legitimate concerns... by 6ixStringJack

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Once again... a request for legitimate concerns...

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UPDATED: Tuesday, September 23, 2025 18:24
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Tuesday, September 23, 2025 4:02 PM

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Originally posted by THG:
Trump has failed to lower costs. Now is the time to fight for it.

Where were you the last 4 years, Pocahontas?

Sit down and shut the fuck up. Americans were done listening to your stupid ass years ago.

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Tuesday, September 23, 2025 6:24 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Because when China countered our tariffs by withholding rare earths, it fucked everything up including car manufacturing. Supplies need to be ensured for manufacturing to happen. It's axiomatic.

THGR:
It's not rare earths that's the problem. We have plenty. It's the infrastructure needed to create the final product that is the problem. Again, one more Trump fuckup.

Well, honestly IDK if the USA has enough deposits for all of its industries, altho apparently coal ash (which we have plenty of) is also a possible source.
https://scitechdaily.com/8-4-billion-enormous-cache-of-rare-earth-elem
ents-discovered-in-america/

The big issue with rare earths is extraction, which is incredibly messy. China supposedly has technology which makes extraction more cost effective. Even so, it creates hills of mine tailings and lakes of sludge.

There's a lot of research going on with rare earths extraction, but we're not there yet. So there's technological infrastructure required as well.

Point being, reindustrialization isn't going to happen in three years, it needs decades- long investment, probably needs to be targeted, and probably needs our government to either make preferential loans or take a majority stake in some businesses.

I don't see Trump's scattershot approach good for anything other than the lowest-hanging fruit.

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