1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:03,760 Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand. 2 00:00:05,040 --> 00:00:07,400 Speaker 2: Lou Penrose with you till ten o'clock. Thank you for 3 00:00:07,440 --> 00:00:10,440 Speaker 2: tuning in. Good to have you along with us. I 4 00:00:10,480 --> 00:00:14,960 Speaker 2: am a huge proponent of American manufacturing. I think that 5 00:00:15,120 --> 00:00:20,040 Speaker 2: American manufacturing is what advanced this country post World War 6 00:00:20,079 --> 00:00:27,480 Speaker 2: Two from a really growing country into the strongest economic 7 00:00:27,520 --> 00:00:33,600 Speaker 2: powerhouse on planet Earth. And there's a lot of reasons why, 8 00:00:33,760 --> 00:00:38,519 Speaker 2: but the biggest reason is we buy the things that 9 00:00:38,560 --> 00:00:42,760 Speaker 2: were manufactured here, so it really worked. The American economy 10 00:00:42,800 --> 00:00:47,720 Speaker 2: traditionally has been a three legged stool, and it works 11 00:00:47,760 --> 00:00:48,080 Speaker 2: like this. 12 00:00:49,080 --> 00:00:51,400 Speaker 3: You have professional work. 13 00:00:51,880 --> 00:00:59,920 Speaker 2: That's doctors, lawyers, accountants, engineers, architects. You have service work, right, 14 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:03,639 Speaker 2: that's the people that work in the hotel industry. That's 15 00:01:03,640 --> 00:01:06,319 Speaker 2: the people that work in the hospitality industry. That's the 16 00:01:06,360 --> 00:01:09,520 Speaker 2: people that work in the retail industry. And then you 17 00:01:09,640 --> 00:01:14,720 Speaker 2: have manufacturing. That's the people that take raw materials and 18 00:01:14,880 --> 00:01:20,920 Speaker 2: turn them into products. Manufacturing taking raw materials and turning 19 00:01:20,959 --> 00:01:24,720 Speaker 2: them into products for sale. 20 00:01:24,840 --> 00:01:28,400 Speaker 3: And it works, and all three are necessary. 21 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:32,960 Speaker 2: We cannot have a growing prosperous American economy with is 22 00:01:33,040 --> 00:01:37,800 Speaker 2: doctors and lawyers, and we cannot grow the economy with 23 00:01:37,959 --> 00:01:40,760 Speaker 2: service workers doing each other's laundry. 24 00:01:40,840 --> 00:01:43,680 Speaker 3: We have to have manufacturing. It's essential. 25 00:01:44,200 --> 00:01:48,720 Speaker 2: Now. The good news is manufacturing is far more dynamic 26 00:01:48,800 --> 00:01:54,080 Speaker 2: than service work or the professional economy because manufacturing brings 27 00:01:54,120 --> 00:01:59,080 Speaker 2: with it so many downstream jobs. And there isn't a 28 00:01:59,160 --> 00:02:06,800 Speaker 2: better example than the automotive industry. Making cars in America 29 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:13,120 Speaker 2: for Americans has been magical post World War Two for 30 00:02:13,280 --> 00:02:17,120 Speaker 2: the really the creation of wealth in this country and 31 00:02:17,280 --> 00:02:20,959 Speaker 2: the rising level of prosperity for every American. You know why, 32 00:02:21,520 --> 00:02:26,079 Speaker 2: because the car is made of steel and glass and 33 00:02:26,240 --> 00:02:31,520 Speaker 2: rubber and all kinds of components. So many things go 34 00:02:31,600 --> 00:02:35,560 Speaker 2: into a car, and then everybody buys the car. Every 35 00:02:35,600 --> 00:02:39,160 Speaker 2: American has a car. Some Americans have two. That isn't 36 00:02:39,160 --> 00:02:42,359 Speaker 2: the case in other parts of the world. So the 37 00:02:42,440 --> 00:02:44,560 Speaker 2: car is such a. 38 00:02:44,440 --> 00:02:51,000 Speaker 3: Good driver of wealth in this country. Right. 39 00:02:51,080 --> 00:02:56,600 Speaker 2: The steel is from America, the aluminium is from America, 40 00:02:56,919 --> 00:02:59,320 Speaker 2: the rubber is from America. So the people that make 41 00:02:59,400 --> 00:03:04,840 Speaker 2: steel and rubber, the people that make glass, all of that's, 42 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:09,760 Speaker 2: the people that make the engine are all sourced in America. 43 00:03:10,200 --> 00:03:14,440 Speaker 2: Then they ship all those things to an assembly plant 44 00:03:14,919 --> 00:03:19,200 Speaker 2: based in Michigan, and they put all those parts together 45 00:03:19,600 --> 00:03:23,600 Speaker 2: and you have an automobile. Then they ship those automobiles 46 00:03:23,800 --> 00:03:27,400 Speaker 2: to car dealerships all over the United States and on Saturday, 47 00:03:27,480 --> 00:03:31,520 Speaker 2: Americans go and buy themselves a car. When you buy 48 00:03:31,600 --> 00:03:34,440 Speaker 2: that car that was made in America, you're now paying 49 00:03:34,480 --> 00:03:37,800 Speaker 2: the salary of the guy in Michigan that assembled the car. 50 00:03:38,280 --> 00:03:39,360 Speaker 3: But you're also paying the. 51 00:03:39,320 --> 00:03:43,040 Speaker 2: Salary of the guy that got the iron and steel 52 00:03:43,040 --> 00:03:46,680 Speaker 2: out of the ground in Birmingham, Alabama, or the rubber 53 00:03:47,600 --> 00:03:53,640 Speaker 2: in Pennsylvania, or the glass in Ohio, or all the 54 00:03:53,680 --> 00:03:58,800 Speaker 2: components in the car. Is it's like a magnitude of seven, 55 00:04:00,680 --> 00:04:03,280 Speaker 2: and in all that money and wealth circulates right here 56 00:04:03,320 --> 00:04:04,200 Speaker 2: in the United States. 57 00:04:04,560 --> 00:04:06,520 Speaker 3: So it is really important. 58 00:04:06,280 --> 00:04:09,279 Speaker 2: That we manufacture in the United States. And the automobile 59 00:04:09,600 --> 00:04:12,920 Speaker 2: is the perfect example. We are constantly buying cars. We're 60 00:04:12,920 --> 00:04:15,720 Speaker 2: always going to be buying cars. We will always need cars. 61 00:04:15,840 --> 00:04:19,120 Speaker 2: We are not a mass transit country. It's a big place. 62 00:04:19,240 --> 00:04:22,040 Speaker 2: We have great, big freeways, great big highways, and it's 63 00:04:22,040 --> 00:04:24,400 Speaker 2: going to stay that way. So we need to be 64 00:04:24,440 --> 00:04:28,920 Speaker 2: manufacturing cars here in the United States. And good news, 65 00:04:29,360 --> 00:04:35,160 Speaker 2: President Trump made a deal with Toyota and starting this year, 66 00:04:35,520 --> 00:04:41,560 Speaker 2: Toyota is resuring the manufacturing of Japanese cars into the 67 00:04:41,640 --> 00:04:44,640 Speaker 2: United States that will be manufactured by American. 68 00:04:44,400 --> 00:04:48,120 Speaker 4: Toyota is going to be putting auto plants all over 69 00:04:48,160 --> 00:04:49,320 Speaker 4: the United States to. 70 00:04:49,320 --> 00:04:54,000 Speaker 3: The June of over ten billion dollars. So that's Toyota. 71 00:04:54,080 --> 00:04:58,800 Speaker 4: So go out and buying Toyota, right. 72 00:04:58,839 --> 00:04:59,880 Speaker 3: Well, there's a couple of reasons. 73 00:05:00,160 --> 00:05:08,280 Speaker 2: That one is because Trump is uniquely qualified to negotiate 74 00:05:08,320 --> 00:05:08,960 Speaker 2: with Toyota. 75 00:05:10,200 --> 00:05:13,880 Speaker 3: So elections matter, and his election did. 76 00:05:15,160 --> 00:05:22,039 Speaker 2: But the utilization of tariffs as a bargaining chip worked. 77 00:05:23,279 --> 00:05:25,880 Speaker 4: And that's a lot to do with because right now 78 00:05:25,920 --> 00:05:28,120 Speaker 4: we have all the AI plans, we have so many 79 00:05:28,120 --> 00:05:30,400 Speaker 4: things happening in the United States, and it's because of 80 00:05:30,520 --> 00:05:33,520 Speaker 4: November fifth, election day, but it's also because of tariffs. 81 00:05:33,560 --> 00:05:39,760 Speaker 3: Absolutely because of the tariffs. The tariffs worked, right, The threat. 82 00:05:39,560 --> 00:05:42,960 Speaker 2: Of tariffs and the negotiation with tariffs in place worked. 83 00:05:43,080 --> 00:05:45,560 Speaker 2: It brought everybody to the bargaining table and put the 84 00:05:45,600 --> 00:05:49,680 Speaker 2: advantage back into the hands of this nation's top negotiator 85 00:05:50,080 --> 00:05:58,040 Speaker 2: and advantages the American worker. For years, I have worked 86 00:05:58,120 --> 00:06:02,719 Speaker 2: alongside Republicans in Washington in Congress, and they were all 87 00:06:02,839 --> 00:06:06,760 Speaker 2: free traders saying tariffs don't work. Now, protectionism doesn't work. 88 00:06:06,839 --> 00:06:10,560 Speaker 2: Lou It messes up the marketplace. You got to have 89 00:06:10,640 --> 00:06:13,719 Speaker 2: free trade, free trade, free trade. And we've been dealing 90 00:06:13,760 --> 00:06:18,279 Speaker 2: with this free trade crap for thirty years. And there 91 00:06:18,320 --> 00:06:21,159 Speaker 2: were I mean, it was down to a handfill, a 92 00:06:21,240 --> 00:06:25,520 Speaker 2: handful of protectionists that we're advocating for tariffs. It was 93 00:06:25,560 --> 00:06:34,760 Speaker 2: basically me, Ralph Nader, Pat Buchanan, then Congressman Shared Brown 94 00:06:34,839 --> 00:06:38,680 Speaker 2: who's now Senator Shared Brown, who was a protectionist, Congressman 95 00:06:38,760 --> 00:06:42,719 Speaker 2: Duncan Hunter of San Diego, and that's pretty much it. 96 00:06:42,800 --> 00:06:45,240 Speaker 2: Everybody else was free trade, free trade, free trade, no 97 00:06:45,279 --> 00:06:48,520 Speaker 2: trade barriers, no tariffs, and all the jobs when overseas 98 00:06:48,640 --> 00:06:51,960 Speaker 2: all the American manufacturing dissolved and we brought in a 99 00:06:51,960 --> 00:06:54,640 Speaker 2: bunch of plastic crap from China. So we're going in 100 00:06:54,640 --> 00:06:58,159 Speaker 2: a whole new direction. And everybody said, oh, tariffs are bad, 101 00:06:58,680 --> 00:07:01,960 Speaker 2: tariff's are good. Caused the Great Depression. Smoot Holly, don't 102 00:07:01,960 --> 00:07:06,599 Speaker 2: you read your history? And I said, no, you're you're lying, 103 00:07:07,080 --> 00:07:09,520 Speaker 2: and that lie has been debunked now. 104 00:07:09,720 --> 00:07:11,520 Speaker 3: Smoot Holly came out. 105 00:07:11,440 --> 00:07:16,280 Speaker 2: Way after the Great Depression in an effort to reverse 106 00:07:16,400 --> 00:07:18,920 Speaker 2: the effects of the Great Depression and to and to 107 00:07:18,960 --> 00:07:23,680 Speaker 2: put Americans back to work. So it was the right idea, 108 00:07:23,800 --> 00:07:28,880 Speaker 2: just too late. Well guess what. Guess what's happening at 109 00:07:28,920 --> 00:07:34,360 Speaker 2: the Port of Long Beach. The amount of containers coming in, 110 00:07:34,400 --> 00:07:39,480 Speaker 2: the amount of trade has exploded. His Frank Buckley from KTLA. 111 00:07:39,720 --> 00:07:42,560 Speaker 5: Despite tariffs that reduced imports to the US, the Port 112 00:07:42,560 --> 00:07:45,880 Speaker 5: of Long Beach moved a record amount of cargo last 113 00:07:45,960 --> 00:07:49,760 Speaker 5: year and is preparing for expansion, nearly ten million containers. 114 00:07:49,840 --> 00:07:52,280 Speaker 3: How can that be? How can that be? How can 115 00:07:52,320 --> 00:07:52,560 Speaker 3: that be? 116 00:07:52,800 --> 00:07:56,160 Speaker 2: Terriffs, We're going to stop international trade all these Trump 117 00:07:56,200 --> 00:07:58,120 Speaker 2: was going to start a trade war. We were going 118 00:07:58,200 --> 00:08:00,600 Speaker 2: to be in trouble that we would not be able 119 00:08:00,600 --> 00:08:03,240 Speaker 2: to afford Barbie. There'd be no Barbie dolls under the 120 00:08:03,240 --> 00:08:09,160 Speaker 2: tree because of Trump's trade war. I love how Buckley says, 121 00:08:09,160 --> 00:08:10,280 Speaker 2: despite what do you mean? 122 00:08:10,320 --> 00:08:10,760 Speaker 3: Despite? 123 00:08:10,800 --> 00:08:16,040 Speaker 2: Because of the proper use of tariffs as a negotiating tool, 124 00:08:17,040 --> 00:08:21,840 Speaker 2: we got good deals that benefit American workers. So we 125 00:08:21,880 --> 00:08:24,120 Speaker 2: are going to start making cars again in the United States. 126 00:08:24,120 --> 00:08:27,480 Speaker 2: And I think that's just the beginning. When we come back, 127 00:08:27,520 --> 00:08:29,960 Speaker 2: I want to play for you what Michael Moore had 128 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:32,920 Speaker 2: to say about this. You may recall Michael Moore he 129 00:08:33,080 --> 00:08:37,400 Speaker 2: started the whole Gorilla documentary with a film called Roger 130 00:08:37,440 --> 00:08:42,000 Speaker 2: and Me, which was about the complete decimation of the 131 00:08:42,040 --> 00:08:48,720 Speaker 2: American automobile manufacturing industry. So he was pro tariff, really 132 00:08:48,840 --> 00:08:52,199 Speaker 2: pro Trump philosophically many many years ago. He doesn't like 133 00:08:52,240 --> 00:08:55,400 Speaker 2: Trump now, but you could. I mean, you can watch 134 00:08:55,480 --> 00:08:58,839 Speaker 2: this movie today and it would completely justify what Trump 135 00:08:58,880 --> 00:09:01,240 Speaker 2: is doing with respect to his tariff negotiations. 136 00:09:01,280 --> 00:09:02,760 Speaker 3: I'll share it with you. It's pretty amazing. 137 00:09:04,160 --> 00:09:07,559 Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand. 138 00:09:11,800 --> 00:09:17,840 Speaker 3: American manufacturing is returning to the United States. The tariffs worked. 139 00:09:18,480 --> 00:09:19,959 Speaker 3: Protectionism works. 140 00:09:20,320 --> 00:09:24,440 Speaker 2: It brings other nations and international companies to the table, 141 00:09:24,840 --> 00:09:28,560 Speaker 2: and we are in the advantage. The American worker now 142 00:09:28,760 --> 00:09:32,280 Speaker 2: has the advantage because it's too expensive to pay the 143 00:09:32,320 --> 00:09:36,319 Speaker 2: tariff and manufacture the automobile or the appliance or whatever 144 00:09:36,360 --> 00:09:39,160 Speaker 2: it is it's being manufactured in another country and then 145 00:09:39,240 --> 00:09:41,520 Speaker 2: have to pay the tariff. It prices them out of 146 00:09:41,520 --> 00:09:46,000 Speaker 2: the market. So it's causing companies like Toyota to move 147 00:09:46,080 --> 00:09:48,160 Speaker 2: manufacturing back to the United States. 148 00:09:48,400 --> 00:09:49,440 Speaker 3: And that's a good thing. 149 00:09:50,280 --> 00:09:54,720 Speaker 2: Manufacturing cars is something Americans do well. It makes sense. 150 00:09:54,960 --> 00:10:00,360 Speaker 2: The raw materials are here, the shoppers are here. Ciency 151 00:10:00,440 --> 00:10:04,400 Speaker 2: here We don't manufacture cars in the United States for export. 152 00:10:04,720 --> 00:10:08,679 Speaker 2: We manufacture cars in the United States for consumption. We're 153 00:10:08,679 --> 00:10:13,440 Speaker 2: the consumers, so it makes all the sense in the world. 154 00:10:13,800 --> 00:10:17,760 Speaker 3: We used to do it before we got into this 155 00:10:17,800 --> 00:10:21,320 Speaker 3: whole free trade nonsense in the late eighties and shipped 156 00:10:21,400 --> 00:10:25,239 Speaker 3: all the manufacturing to Mexico into other parts. 157 00:10:24,960 --> 00:10:25,440 Speaker 1: Of the world. 158 00:10:26,280 --> 00:10:27,360 Speaker 3: It was a huge mistake. 159 00:10:27,520 --> 00:10:30,720 Speaker 2: So this is going in the right direction that Toyota 160 00:10:30,840 --> 00:10:33,840 Speaker 2: is moving manufacturing here to the United States. 161 00:10:35,679 --> 00:10:37,000 Speaker 3: Here is Michael Moore. 162 00:10:37,360 --> 00:10:42,560 Speaker 2: Michael Moore was probably the highest profile critic of what 163 00:10:42,800 --> 00:10:46,679 Speaker 2: happened to the American automotive industry in and I mean 164 00:10:46,679 --> 00:10:49,600 Speaker 2: not just in and he's from Flint, Michigan. But the 165 00:10:49,640 --> 00:10:53,120 Speaker 2: American automotive industry is not just the assembly of cars 166 00:10:53,800 --> 00:10:59,239 Speaker 2: in Michigan, as I said, it is the raw materials involved, 167 00:10:59,240 --> 00:11:02,840 Speaker 2: the glass, rubber, the steal, the aluminum, the plastics, all 168 00:11:02,960 --> 00:11:07,720 Speaker 2: sourced in the United States, creating American jobs. Here he 169 00:11:07,800 --> 00:11:12,160 Speaker 2: is in twenty and sixteen. Now in twenty sixteen, he 170 00:11:12,320 --> 00:11:13,800 Speaker 2: was campaigning for Hillary Clinton. 171 00:11:13,960 --> 00:11:17,280 Speaker 3: He wanted Hillary Clinton to win. So he's not a Trump. 172 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:23,120 Speaker 2: Guy, but he understands what American manufacturing is about and 173 00:11:23,200 --> 00:11:27,320 Speaker 2: here's how he explained Hillary Clinton's loss to Trump. 174 00:11:27,320 --> 00:11:29,199 Speaker 3: In twenty sixteen, Donald. 175 00:11:28,960 --> 00:11:32,600 Speaker 6: Trump came to the Detroit Economic Club and stood there 176 00:11:32,720 --> 00:11:36,880 Speaker 6: in front of the Ford Motor executives and said, if 177 00:11:36,920 --> 00:11:39,320 Speaker 6: you close these factories as you're planning to do in 178 00:11:39,360 --> 00:11:42,319 Speaker 6: Detroit and build them in Mexico, I'm going to put 179 00:11:42,320 --> 00:11:44,839 Speaker 6: a thirty five percent terriff on those cars when you 180 00:11:44,920 --> 00:11:46,560 Speaker 6: send it back, and nobody's going to buy them. 181 00:11:46,840 --> 00:11:48,400 Speaker 1: It was an amazing thing to see. 182 00:11:48,720 --> 00:11:52,960 Speaker 6: No politician, Republican or Democrat, had ever said anything like 183 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:56,240 Speaker 6: that to these executives. And it was music to the 184 00:11:56,280 --> 00:12:02,400 Speaker 6: ears of people in Michigan and Ohio and Pennsylvan in Wisconsin. 185 00:12:01,840 --> 00:12:09,880 Speaker 2: Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin. Music to the ears of the autoworkers. 186 00:12:10,840 --> 00:12:19,520 Speaker 2: Guess where Trump won Michigan, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin. Guess where 187 00:12:19,559 --> 00:12:26,000 Speaker 2: Trump won again in twenty twenty four Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin. 188 00:12:26,120 --> 00:12:31,800 Speaker 2: Are you beginning to understand the connection? Are you beginning 189 00:12:31,840 --> 00:12:35,240 Speaker 2: to understand why Trump won not just the electoral college 190 00:12:35,800 --> 00:12:40,560 Speaker 2: all seven battleground states, including Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, 191 00:12:40,720 --> 00:12:42,240 Speaker 2: but the popular vote. 192 00:12:43,480 --> 00:12:44,880 Speaker 3: Because he meant it. 193 00:12:45,280 --> 00:12:50,840 Speaker 2: He wasn't campaigning, he was planning, and now he's fulfilled 194 00:12:50,880 --> 00:12:55,120 Speaker 2: the campaign promise and said, if you move these jobs 195 00:12:55,160 --> 00:12:58,000 Speaker 2: to Mexico like you're planning, I'll put a tariff on 196 00:12:58,080 --> 00:13:00,880 Speaker 2: it and they'll nobody buy. 197 00:13:01,520 --> 00:13:05,480 Speaker 3: And guess what, Toyota heard that and said, Okay, we 198 00:13:05,559 --> 00:13:08,360 Speaker 3: don't need cars made in Canada. We don't need cars 199 00:13:08,360 --> 00:13:10,800 Speaker 3: made in Mexico. We want to make them here. 200 00:13:10,920 --> 00:13:15,120 Speaker 2: That's right, and we want to employ Americans to do it. Now, 201 00:13:15,120 --> 00:13:20,199 Speaker 2: here's the good news about reassuring American manufacturing, particularly in 202 00:13:20,240 --> 00:13:25,720 Speaker 2: the automotive industry. But that's really just a start. We 203 00:13:25,840 --> 00:13:29,680 Speaker 2: don't have to build an infrastructure. We don't have to 204 00:13:29,720 --> 00:13:34,560 Speaker 2: get ready to manufacture Toyota's or any other car in 205 00:13:34,600 --> 00:13:36,920 Speaker 2: the United States because we used to do it. 206 00:13:37,360 --> 00:13:40,360 Speaker 3: So all the factories are there. 207 00:13:40,760 --> 00:13:43,400 Speaker 2: Now they're in disrepair, they're gonna need some sprucing up, 208 00:13:43,480 --> 00:13:45,960 Speaker 2: but at least the foundations are there, not just for 209 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:48,839 Speaker 2: the assembly of the cars, but the factories are there 210 00:13:48,880 --> 00:13:51,960 Speaker 2: for all the parts. The factories are there for the engines. 211 00:13:52,120 --> 00:13:57,800 Speaker 2: The factories are there for all the windshield manufacturing, tire manufacturing, steel. 212 00:13:58,120 --> 00:14:02,480 Speaker 2: We have all that industry and it's all connected by 213 00:14:02,720 --> 00:14:07,520 Speaker 2: rail line already, they're gonna have to take a weed 214 00:14:07,559 --> 00:14:09,880 Speaker 2: whacker out there for some of them because there hasn't 215 00:14:09,920 --> 00:14:11,960 Speaker 2: been a whole lot of activity on those rail lines. 216 00:14:12,040 --> 00:14:15,400 Speaker 2: But the rail lines are there. They go from all 217 00:14:15,520 --> 00:14:20,080 Speaker 2: the raw material places all over the United States, and 218 00:14:20,120 --> 00:14:24,240 Speaker 2: they all meet in Chicago, and they go up to Michigan, 219 00:14:24,320 --> 00:14:26,760 Speaker 2: they go over to Ohio, they go over to Wisconsin, 220 00:14:26,760 --> 00:14:30,800 Speaker 2: they go over to Pennsylvania, and they're all interconnected and 221 00:14:30,880 --> 00:14:33,560 Speaker 2: in many respects, the rail spur goes right up to 222 00:14:33,600 --> 00:14:34,160 Speaker 2: the loading dock. 223 00:14:34,240 --> 00:14:37,520 Speaker 3: It's all set up for us. And then all the 224 00:14:37,600 --> 00:14:38,400 Speaker 3: rail lines. 225 00:14:38,160 --> 00:14:41,800 Speaker 2: Go to all major US cities for distribution of the 226 00:14:41,840 --> 00:14:42,760 Speaker 2: brand new cars. 227 00:14:43,240 --> 00:14:46,280 Speaker 3: And isn't it a wonderful thing? So we're ready to go. 228 00:14:47,080 --> 00:14:54,520 Speaker 2: All we need is tariffs to compel the automaker to 229 00:14:54,640 --> 00:14:57,680 Speaker 2: manufacture in the United States and put Americans to work. 230 00:14:59,120 --> 00:15:02,760 Speaker 2: It is the most brilliant strategy to get Americans back 231 00:15:02,800 --> 00:15:07,920 Speaker 2: to work. And believe it or not, manufacturing things in 232 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:12,000 Speaker 2: the United States, that's an honest day's labor, Like, there's 233 00:15:12,040 --> 00:15:15,640 Speaker 2: nothing wrong with that. Americans do it well. We've done 234 00:15:15,680 --> 00:15:20,560 Speaker 2: it well, and we have had tremendous success in making 235 00:15:20,600 --> 00:15:25,480 Speaker 2: America the most successful economy post World War Two. I mean, 236 00:15:25,520 --> 00:15:27,160 Speaker 2: you know, we didn't come out of World War Two 237 00:15:27,840 --> 00:15:31,200 Speaker 2: the number one GDP on planet Earth. We are now 238 00:15:31,280 --> 00:15:37,120 Speaker 2: the number one GDP on planet Earth by far, Like 239 00:15:37,240 --> 00:15:41,320 Speaker 2: by far, we're the. 240 00:15:41,280 --> 00:15:43,240 Speaker 3: Most prosperous nation in the world. 241 00:15:45,280 --> 00:15:49,080 Speaker 2: Like the second isn't even close, and China lies so 242 00:15:49,160 --> 00:15:50,640 Speaker 2: you can't even use their numbers. 243 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:53,440 Speaker 3: But it always always amazing to me. You know, we 244 00:15:53,480 --> 00:15:54,680 Speaker 3: go have a meeting. 245 00:15:54,560 --> 00:15:56,440 Speaker 2: Of the G seven nations, it's like, what are you 246 00:15:56,520 --> 00:16:00,800 Speaker 2: talking about? Like the Texas economy. The GDP of Texas 247 00:16:01,040 --> 00:16:03,280 Speaker 2: is bigger than the GDP of Germany. What are we 248 00:16:03,320 --> 00:16:05,480 Speaker 2: even talking with these people for? Like we can have 249 00:16:05,640 --> 00:16:10,080 Speaker 2: we can be friendly with some of these other Western 250 00:16:10,120 --> 00:16:11,320 Speaker 2: European nations. 251 00:16:10,960 --> 00:16:14,800 Speaker 3: But our GDP is so much huger than theirs. What 252 00:16:14,840 --> 00:16:17,960 Speaker 3: are we even at dinner tables with these people? 253 00:16:19,080 --> 00:16:22,640 Speaker 2: We're so much bigger, so much better, so much more prosperous. 254 00:16:22,280 --> 00:16:26,120 Speaker 2: It's off the charts, and it is directly related to 255 00:16:26,240 --> 00:16:29,480 Speaker 2: us using our own raw materials and turning it into 256 00:16:29,520 --> 00:16:32,800 Speaker 2: products for sale to our fellow Americans. Circulating all that 257 00:16:32,840 --> 00:16:36,760 Speaker 2: wealth in the economy and the automobile is just one 258 00:16:36,760 --> 00:16:41,480 Speaker 2: illustration everything in your house, and I mean everything in 259 00:16:41,520 --> 00:16:45,560 Speaker 2: your house used to be made in America by an 260 00:16:45,600 --> 00:16:49,360 Speaker 2: American at an American factory, making really good money, by 261 00:16:49,400 --> 00:16:53,320 Speaker 2: the way, not minimum wage, making the kind of money 262 00:16:53,360 --> 00:16:56,240 Speaker 2: that could support a household and a car and a 263 00:16:56,280 --> 00:17:01,320 Speaker 2: family on one paycheck. Everything, everything in your kitchen, all 264 00:17:01,360 --> 00:17:04,400 Speaker 2: your kitchen appliances. If you grew up as I did 265 00:17:04,440 --> 00:17:09,159 Speaker 2: in the seventies and eighties, your mother's refrigerator was a 266 00:17:09,160 --> 00:17:13,560 Speaker 2: Westinghouse or a General Electric. Her washer dryer was a 267 00:17:13,600 --> 00:17:18,680 Speaker 2: General Electric, a Westinghouse for sure. Right the oven, all 268 00:17:18,720 --> 00:17:22,359 Speaker 2: the counter appliances. If she had a blender, it was 269 00:17:22,400 --> 00:17:26,560 Speaker 2: Hamilton Beach that was manufactured in Wisconsin. If it was 270 00:17:26,640 --> 00:17:30,720 Speaker 2: black and Decker, it was manufactured in Ohio, where made 271 00:17:30,760 --> 00:17:36,320 Speaker 2: can openers. The Mister Coffee coffee maker was made in Ohio. 272 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:41,600 Speaker 2: All the toasters, they were all manufactured in American factories 273 00:17:41,880 --> 00:17:43,960 Speaker 2: by Americans making really good wages. 274 00:17:44,520 --> 00:17:47,119 Speaker 3: And they were good appliances. When do you ever remember 275 00:17:47,160 --> 00:17:50,720 Speaker 3: your mother getting a new refrigerator. You go out to 276 00:17:50,720 --> 00:17:53,560 Speaker 3: buy a refrigerator, now, and what's the first thing. The 277 00:17:53,600 --> 00:17:56,040 Speaker 3: guy they chase you in the showroom. They want to 278 00:17:56,080 --> 00:17:57,800 Speaker 3: sell you the extended warranty. 279 00:17:58,160 --> 00:18:00,800 Speaker 2: Why because they know it's a piece of crap from 280 00:18:00,880 --> 00:18:03,120 Speaker 2: China and it's going to break in three years. Did 281 00:18:03,160 --> 00:18:08,080 Speaker 2: your grandfather have an extended warranty and his refrigerator? So 282 00:18:08,119 --> 00:18:10,840 Speaker 2: we can manufacture these things in the United States and 283 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:14,480 Speaker 2: bring them to market, use American raw materials, employ Americans 284 00:18:14,480 --> 00:18:16,760 Speaker 2: to do it. They'll be high quality, they won't go 285 00:18:16,800 --> 00:18:19,399 Speaker 2: in the landfill. It'll be good for you, it'll be 286 00:18:19,440 --> 00:18:22,040 Speaker 2: good for the American worker, it'll be good for Mother Earth, 287 00:18:22,320 --> 00:18:26,680 Speaker 2: and we all win. And that's how you make this 288 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:31,199 Speaker 2: second half of this century the best American century ever. 289 00:18:32,800 --> 00:18:36,680 Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand. 290 00:18:37,920 --> 00:18:40,880 Speaker 2: Talking about the restoring of American manufacturing. 291 00:18:41,280 --> 00:18:42,440 Speaker 3: It is happening. 292 00:18:42,560 --> 00:18:46,520 Speaker 2: President Trump was in Detroit earlier this week, and they're 293 00:18:46,560 --> 00:18:50,800 Speaker 2: moving plants, automotive manufacturing plants back to America. 294 00:18:50,880 --> 00:18:54,840 Speaker 4: They're doing twenty four hours to sixty and they do 295 00:18:54,960 --> 00:18:58,080 Speaker 4: expansions and they're building more plants in the United States 296 00:18:58,119 --> 00:18:59,040 Speaker 4: because of tariffs. 297 00:18:59,280 --> 00:19:02,880 Speaker 2: And it's working. It's happening. We're seeing it. We need 298 00:19:02,920 --> 00:19:04,520 Speaker 2: to prepare and embrace it. 299 00:19:04,600 --> 00:19:07,440 Speaker 7: I love what you're saying, Lou, but I just can't 300 00:19:07,480 --> 00:19:13,200 Speaker 7: see it happening. Because with manufacturing raw products, there are emissions, 301 00:19:13,520 --> 00:19:17,000 Speaker 7: and nobody wants to get dirty anymore in this country. 302 00:19:17,200 --> 00:19:20,119 Speaker 7: Nobody wants to be hot or cold. They want to 303 00:19:20,119 --> 00:19:23,320 Speaker 7: stare at a computer in an air condition controlled office. 304 00:19:23,440 --> 00:19:25,200 Speaker 7: I just don't see it ever coming back. 305 00:19:25,359 --> 00:19:26,440 Speaker 3: Well, I disagree. 306 00:19:26,680 --> 00:19:29,840 Speaker 2: First off, we have to have the right attitude. Do 307 00:19:29,880 --> 00:19:33,920 Speaker 2: you want to be an American or an Americant? That's 308 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:40,840 Speaker 2: number one. Number two, manufacturing isn't as comfortable as sitting 309 00:19:40,880 --> 00:19:43,840 Speaker 2: staring at a computer screen. But when you start looking 310 00:19:43,880 --> 00:19:47,080 Speaker 2: about at the amount of pay that it can command, 311 00:19:48,480 --> 00:19:49,920 Speaker 2: it may very well be comparable. 312 00:19:49,960 --> 00:19:51,280 Speaker 3: Everyone's talking about AI. 313 00:19:52,040 --> 00:19:56,800 Speaker 2: I would argue that post AI revolution, there will only 314 00:19:56,920 --> 00:19:59,359 Speaker 2: be manufacturing available. 315 00:20:01,400 --> 00:20:05,560 Speaker 3: And come on, like, when you think of manufacturing, it's 316 00:20:05,600 --> 00:20:10,320 Speaker 3: not like gray, drab, normal ray. 317 00:20:10,400 --> 00:20:13,880 Speaker 2: It's not the closing scene in an Officer and a Gentleman. 318 00:20:14,320 --> 00:20:18,399 Speaker 2: This is high tech manufacturing. But it has to be 319 00:20:18,440 --> 00:20:21,639 Speaker 2: done by Americans. I love this argument that, well, you know, 320 00:20:21,640 --> 00:20:24,000 Speaker 2: there's a lot of emissions. Yeah, and guess what, the 321 00:20:24,040 --> 00:20:28,639 Speaker 2: filtering has gotten a lot better too. So let me 322 00:20:28,680 --> 00:20:30,600 Speaker 2: break this down for you in a way that I 323 00:20:30,640 --> 00:20:34,320 Speaker 2: think you can understand. Oh, because I was just looking 324 00:20:34,359 --> 00:20:38,880 Speaker 2: at televisions my wife is changing. 325 00:20:39,040 --> 00:20:40,400 Speaker 3: The wall in the living room. 326 00:20:40,440 --> 00:20:42,639 Speaker 2: I don't know why, but now I'm gonna have to 327 00:20:42,640 --> 00:20:45,520 Speaker 2: buy a bigger television because it will look weird having 328 00:20:45,520 --> 00:20:49,080 Speaker 2: the television we had anyway, And prices of flat screens 329 00:20:49,080 --> 00:20:52,840 Speaker 2: have come down significantly, and the TVs have gotten amazing. 330 00:20:53,400 --> 00:20:57,159 Speaker 2: Looking at an OL ed at Costco. All right, so 331 00:20:57,240 --> 00:20:59,280 Speaker 2: you go to Costco. You want to buy a flat 332 00:20:59,280 --> 00:21:03,080 Speaker 2: screen TV. It's a made in China or maid in Korea. 333 00:21:03,200 --> 00:21:06,800 Speaker 2: It's made overseas, not made in America. TV's used to 334 00:21:06,840 --> 00:21:10,040 Speaker 2: be made in America. We effectively invented the damn thing. 335 00:21:10,400 --> 00:21:13,840 Speaker 2: But your mother's TV, your father's TV. You grew up 336 00:21:13,960 --> 00:21:17,320 Speaker 2: with an RCA, a Zenith, an Emerson. They were made 337 00:21:17,359 --> 00:21:20,560 Speaker 2: in the United States. They were high quality, they lasted forever, 338 00:21:20,160 --> 00:21:24,919 Speaker 2: they were repairable, and they were beautiful. Then we closed 339 00:21:24,920 --> 00:21:28,120 Speaker 2: down the RCAA factory closed down, Zenith closed down, Emerson 340 00:21:28,320 --> 00:21:31,399 Speaker 2: shipped all the electronic jobs overseas, and now we import 341 00:21:31,480 --> 00:21:32,440 Speaker 2: junk from China. 342 00:21:34,760 --> 00:21:37,560 Speaker 3: So now let's talk about the junk. Okay, you go 343 00:21:37,640 --> 00:21:40,920 Speaker 3: to Costco. Right, fifty five inch flat screen TV eight 344 00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:45,520 Speaker 3: ninety nine. Wow, what a bargain. Seems very reasonable for 345 00:21:45,600 --> 00:21:49,800 Speaker 3: this great big square TV and it's all Wi Fi enabled, 346 00:21:49,880 --> 00:21:51,879 Speaker 3: and it's already got look at it. 347 00:21:51,880 --> 00:21:53,920 Speaker 2: It's got Roku in there, it's got Netflix in there, 348 00:21:53,920 --> 00:21:57,359 Speaker 2: it's got Amazon Prime in there, already plug and play. 349 00:21:57,960 --> 00:21:58,480 Speaker 3: Amazing. 350 00:21:58,800 --> 00:22:04,720 Speaker 2: Right, take that fifty five inch flat screen TV made 351 00:22:04,760 --> 00:22:10,840 Speaker 2: overseas at Costco and like, imagine grinding it down, like 352 00:22:10,920 --> 00:22:14,159 Speaker 2: imagine putting it in a food processor. Imagine grinding it 353 00:22:14,200 --> 00:22:16,320 Speaker 2: down to its base elements. 354 00:22:16,840 --> 00:22:21,440 Speaker 3: What do you have? You have a pile of black 355 00:22:21,480 --> 00:22:22,320 Speaker 3: plastic dust. 356 00:22:23,200 --> 00:22:26,720 Speaker 2: You have some glass, You have some wiring, maybe some 357 00:22:26,760 --> 00:22:31,360 Speaker 2: copper wire, some silver solder, right, the motherboard materials. 358 00:22:32,080 --> 00:22:34,200 Speaker 3: I mean, you have very little raw materials. 359 00:22:34,320 --> 00:22:37,760 Speaker 2: I mean I would argue you probably have somewhere between 360 00:22:37,760 --> 00:22:40,280 Speaker 2: five and eight dollars of raw materials. If you grind 361 00:22:40,359 --> 00:22:43,679 Speaker 2: down a fifty five inch TV down to just powder. Oh, 362 00:22:43,840 --> 00:22:47,040 Speaker 2: I would argue you probably have under five dollars in 363 00:22:47,160 --> 00:22:50,000 Speaker 2: raw materials. But let's just say you have five, six, 364 00:22:50,119 --> 00:22:54,080 Speaker 2: seven dollars in raw materials. It's probably more money and 365 00:22:54,160 --> 00:22:56,800 Speaker 2: packaging than there is in raw materials to make that 366 00:22:56,840 --> 00:23:00,840 Speaker 2: flat screen TV. Okay, the difference between that's six dollars 367 00:23:00,840 --> 00:23:05,359 Speaker 2: in flat screen TV dust and the complete flat screen 368 00:23:05,440 --> 00:23:08,440 Speaker 2: TV that retails were eight hundred and ninety nine dollars. 369 00:23:09,240 --> 00:23:13,840 Speaker 2: That difference, that delta that represented the entire United States 370 00:23:13,920 --> 00:23:20,199 Speaker 2: manufacturing economy, and that American manufacturing economy employed tens of 371 00:23:20,440 --> 00:23:26,440 Speaker 2: thousands of Americans across the Midwest, and those people had 372 00:23:26,560 --> 00:23:32,520 Speaker 2: jobs and pensions and lifestyles and homes, and those jobs 373 00:23:32,520 --> 00:23:36,919 Speaker 2: supported communities, and those people went home to their houses 374 00:23:37,240 --> 00:23:41,560 Speaker 2: that they owned with a car, and one paycheck ran 375 00:23:41,600 --> 00:23:42,240 Speaker 2: the household. 376 00:23:42,280 --> 00:23:43,000 Speaker 3: One paycheck. 377 00:23:43,119 --> 00:23:44,960 Speaker 2: Now, two people could work if you wanted, but you 378 00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:50,919 Speaker 2: didn't need to, and people went to work manufacturing those appliances, 379 00:23:51,080 --> 00:23:54,959 Speaker 2: those electronics, and they had families and job security because 380 00:23:55,119 --> 00:23:59,040 Speaker 2: people constantly buy TVs and we sold them to our 381 00:23:59,040 --> 00:24:02,239 Speaker 2: fellow Americans. So there was job security because there were 382 00:24:02,240 --> 00:24:05,040 Speaker 2: always going to be fellow Americans. And times were good 383 00:24:05,080 --> 00:24:07,160 Speaker 2: and they were gonna get better. And they had advancement 384 00:24:07,200 --> 00:24:10,720 Speaker 2: opportunities because you go from working on the assembly line 385 00:24:10,840 --> 00:24:13,399 Speaker 2: to being the line foreman to being the manager, right 386 00:24:13,840 --> 00:24:16,800 Speaker 2: because people were retiring because they had pensions looking at 387 00:24:16,800 --> 00:24:19,800 Speaker 2: they had pensions waiting for them, right. And there was 388 00:24:19,840 --> 00:24:23,280 Speaker 2: a sign outside the factory saying hiring today every day. 389 00:24:25,080 --> 00:24:27,159 Speaker 3: So there was confidence. 390 00:24:28,720 --> 00:24:34,400 Speaker 2: In these factory towns supported communities, and those paychecks had velocity. 391 00:24:34,480 --> 00:24:38,400 Speaker 2: Man one paycheck made the house payment, bought the car, 392 00:24:38,560 --> 00:24:43,760 Speaker 2: put food on the table right, supported a quality Midwestern lifestyle, 393 00:24:45,040 --> 00:24:47,719 Speaker 2: and there was enough money to take the whole family 394 00:24:47,720 --> 00:24:49,640 Speaker 2: out to dinner on a Friday night, and every once 395 00:24:49,640 --> 00:24:52,200 Speaker 2: in a while take the missus out on the town 396 00:24:52,400 --> 00:24:56,359 Speaker 2: on Saturday night, and even money left over to put 397 00:24:56,400 --> 00:25:00,879 Speaker 2: in the collection plate on Sunday morning at service. Like 398 00:25:00,960 --> 00:25:10,760 Speaker 2: that's how wealthy these factory towns were. And we shut 399 00:25:10,800 --> 00:25:13,600 Speaker 2: down all the factories, sent the jobs overseas, and now 400 00:25:13,880 --> 00:25:17,120 Speaker 2: we import plastic craft from China. And you think you're 401 00:25:17,160 --> 00:25:18,959 Speaker 2: ahead of the game because it's only eight ninety nine 402 00:25:18,960 --> 00:25:24,520 Speaker 2: at costco. So yes, it can be done because we 403 00:25:24,600 --> 00:25:28,359 Speaker 2: did it. And I would argue that you're not ahead 404 00:25:28,359 --> 00:25:31,840 Speaker 2: of the game with the eight ninety nine, you know, 405 00:25:32,119 --> 00:25:35,320 Speaker 2: flat screen from a foreign country, because you've unemployed a 406 00:25:35,359 --> 00:25:38,000 Speaker 2: ton of Americans and there are social costs to putting 407 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:40,639 Speaker 2: these Americans out of work. Let me tell you a 408 00:25:40,680 --> 00:25:43,679 Speaker 2: quick story. I got a minute ready for a story. 409 00:25:44,359 --> 00:25:49,119 Speaker 2: In nineteen seventy two, two engineers from the Westinghouse Corporation, 410 00:25:49,320 --> 00:25:53,840 Speaker 2: remember that in their spare time in the garage designed 411 00:25:54,000 --> 00:26:01,360 Speaker 2: and built a home appliance, a kitchen counter appliance that 412 00:26:01,480 --> 00:26:04,879 Speaker 2: was so successful it went on to become the most 413 00:26:05,720 --> 00:26:11,560 Speaker 2: popular appliance in its genre. It was high quality, it 414 00:26:11,600 --> 00:26:16,520 Speaker 2: was commercial grade, and it sold like there's nobody's business. 415 00:26:16,760 --> 00:26:22,160 Speaker 2: By nineteen seventy four, more Mister Coffee coffee makers were 416 00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:28,800 Speaker 2: sold in the United States than any other appliance. In 417 00:26:28,880 --> 00:26:32,000 Speaker 2: nineteen seventy five, more Mister Coffee coffee makers were given 418 00:26:32,080 --> 00:26:36,520 Speaker 2: US Christmas gifts than any other product in its line. 419 00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:40,440 Speaker 2: Marshall Field in Chicago listed it as the number one 420 00:26:41,280 --> 00:26:46,440 Speaker 2: requested item on the wedding registry. 421 00:26:47,200 --> 00:26:49,919 Speaker 3: People gave them as wedding gifts. I mean there were appliances. 422 00:26:50,080 --> 00:26:53,480 Speaker 2: They lasted forever. They were high quality, they were commercial grade. 423 00:26:53,560 --> 00:26:57,320 Speaker 2: Everybody had one. Your mother had one. You can remember 424 00:26:57,520 --> 00:27:01,320 Speaker 2: where it was right now, on your mother's kitchen counter. 425 00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:05,840 Speaker 3: That's how popular it was. 426 00:27:07,320 --> 00:27:10,880 Speaker 2: By nineteen eighty, they closed the factory, shipped the job 427 00:27:10,920 --> 00:27:15,760 Speaker 2: to China, kept the name Mister Coffee. Now it's a 428 00:27:15,760 --> 00:27:18,919 Speaker 2: plastic piece of crap, it still says mister Coffee. You 429 00:27:18,920 --> 00:27:21,440 Speaker 2: can go to Walmart and get it for nine to 430 00:27:21,520 --> 00:27:24,760 Speaker 2: ninety nine. You think you're ahead of the game because 431 00:27:24,760 --> 00:27:28,200 Speaker 2: it's so cheap, it breaks, it doesn't last at all, 432 00:27:28,760 --> 00:27:30,399 Speaker 2: and you throw it in the dump and you go 433 00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:35,960 Speaker 2: out and buy another one. Meanwhile, we threw all the 434 00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:38,639 Speaker 2: factory workers out of work. And we did that for 435 00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:41,439 Speaker 2: every appliance on your mom's kitchen counter and everything in 436 00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:44,080 Speaker 2: your mom's kitchen, and the washer and the dryer, and 437 00:27:44,160 --> 00:27:48,879 Speaker 2: the car, and the furniture in your house. The furniture 438 00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:53,280 Speaker 2: was all milled in North Carolina, and the fabric that 439 00:27:53,320 --> 00:27:58,320 Speaker 2: covered your parents' furniture was milled in Johnson City, New York, 440 00:27:59,040 --> 00:28:01,919 Speaker 2: and then it was shipped to you at the furniture store. 441 00:28:02,320 --> 00:28:08,560 Speaker 2: Now it's ridiculous junk wood furniture from Vietnam, And if 442 00:28:08,600 --> 00:28:11,720 Speaker 2: your kids jump on the furniture, it'll crack in half. 443 00:28:12,560 --> 00:28:15,240 Speaker 2: I can't tell you the amount of beds that I've 444 00:28:15,280 --> 00:28:15,879 Speaker 2: thrown away. 445 00:28:15,960 --> 00:28:16,879 Speaker 3: I have three boys. 446 00:28:17,160 --> 00:28:19,280 Speaker 2: When I was a kid man, my brother and I 447 00:28:19,359 --> 00:28:21,000 Speaker 2: jumped on the bed all the time. The bed was 448 00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:23,320 Speaker 2: a trampoline as far as we were concerned. I'd never 449 00:28:23,320 --> 00:28:25,359 Speaker 2: heard of a bed breaking in my life. Now, you 450 00:28:25,440 --> 00:28:27,840 Speaker 2: go buy a bed, and you know, a kid can 451 00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:30,879 Speaker 2: just a twelve year old boy can just do a 452 00:28:30,960 --> 00:28:35,920 Speaker 2: small dive onto it cracks in half, so we can 453 00:28:36,080 --> 00:28:39,240 Speaker 2: manufacture high quality things. We did manufacture high quality things, 454 00:28:39,240 --> 00:28:41,920 Speaker 2: and I would argue it's the only way forward. 455 00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:46,120 Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand. 456 00:28:47,800 --> 00:28:50,479 Speaker 8: Hey lou, it's gary and well it may be a 457 00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:53,200 Speaker 8: great thing that you know, we're bringing more jobs. And 458 00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:55,840 Speaker 8: with Toyota, I have to say, man, and I'm a 459 00:28:56,280 --> 00:28:59,520 Speaker 8: big Toyota Lexus guy. I've been to Japan, I've been 460 00:28:59,560 --> 00:29:02,760 Speaker 8: in Asia, never aware of their work ethic and the 461 00:29:02,800 --> 00:29:06,360 Speaker 8: work ethic of Americans. Much rather have my totem made 462 00:29:06,720 --> 00:29:08,040 Speaker 8: in Japan. Hands down. 463 00:29:08,640 --> 00:29:12,840 Speaker 2: Well, that will change, I mean the attitude will change 464 00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:17,120 Speaker 2: that the idea that foreigners can make American cars or 465 00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:19,719 Speaker 2: cars in America better than Americans. 466 00:29:19,160 --> 00:29:19,959 Speaker 3: That will change. 467 00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:23,760 Speaker 2: Part of the reason that the American worker, at least 468 00:29:23,760 --> 00:29:27,360 Speaker 2: the American auto worker got a bad rap was the 469 00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:33,080 Speaker 2: way the American autoworker was treated. I mean it's the 470 00:29:33,120 --> 00:29:36,760 Speaker 2: same thing now, right. You hear about the lazy gen Zers. 471 00:29:38,160 --> 00:29:41,840 Speaker 2: I don't accept they're not lazy. They're not getting the 472 00:29:41,920 --> 00:29:45,600 Speaker 2: kind of money that they should be getting. You will 473 00:29:45,840 --> 00:29:50,800 Speaker 2: find a strong work ethic arises when you're being paid 474 00:29:51,040 --> 00:29:53,600 Speaker 2: very well, and you don't want to lose your job 475 00:29:55,120 --> 00:29:58,080 Speaker 2: if you're not being paid very well, and you could 476 00:29:58,120 --> 00:30:02,000 Speaker 2: care less if you lose your job, work ethic diminishes. 477 00:30:02,440 --> 00:30:05,200 Speaker 2: But if you like what you're getting paid and the 478 00:30:05,240 --> 00:30:08,800 Speaker 2: prospect of getting paid even more, then you're going to 479 00:30:08,840 --> 00:30:13,320 Speaker 2: show up to work happy and make sure that your 480 00:30:13,440 --> 00:30:18,560 Speaker 2: work reflects how much you love the job. That's what 481 00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:22,280 Speaker 2: I'm trying to convey here. These American manufacturing jobs paid 482 00:30:22,480 --> 00:30:26,880 Speaker 2: very well, so people were happy to show up and 483 00:30:26,880 --> 00:30:33,200 Speaker 2: do a good job. When American workers were constantly getting 484 00:30:33,280 --> 00:30:37,680 Speaker 2: threatened to have the factory closed down, fire all you people, 485 00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:44,200 Speaker 2: and ship the jobs to China. That's kind of demoralizing, right, 486 00:30:44,320 --> 00:30:48,200 Speaker 2: especially as it happened. And I went to school in 487 00:30:48,320 --> 00:30:51,680 Speaker 2: Upstate New York, which is very close to Ohio, and 488 00:30:51,760 --> 00:30:54,880 Speaker 2: I met a lot of these people. That's why I 489 00:30:54,920 --> 00:30:58,200 Speaker 2: became so passionate about it in college because I was 490 00:30:58,200 --> 00:31:02,000 Speaker 2: a political science major studied politics, and everybody when I 491 00:31:02,040 --> 00:31:05,120 Speaker 2: was in school, both Republicans and Democrats, they couldn't get 492 00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:08,480 Speaker 2: enough of this free trade, free trade, free trade, free trade, 493 00:31:08,880 --> 00:31:10,240 Speaker 2: that's pure capitalism. 494 00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:11,840 Speaker 3: And I said, what are you talking about. 495 00:31:11,840 --> 00:31:17,680 Speaker 2: You're shipping American jobs overseas where you're where they're taking 496 00:31:17,720 --> 00:31:20,440 Speaker 2: advantage of a labor force that not only can't we 497 00:31:20,440 --> 00:31:23,200 Speaker 2: compete with, we shouldn't be competing with them. They're taking 498 00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:26,840 Speaker 2: advantage of environmental controls that we would never tolerate here. 499 00:31:27,160 --> 00:31:30,640 Speaker 2: And yet you're comfortable bringing the product back into the 500 00:31:30,680 --> 00:31:35,440 Speaker 2: market here and selling it. How is that fair. We 501 00:31:35,480 --> 00:31:39,880 Speaker 2: should absolutely be protecting our markets and protecting our workers. 502 00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:42,920 Speaker 2: And they said, Loo, that's protectionism. I said, I don't 503 00:31:42,920 --> 00:31:47,520 Speaker 2: know why you think that's a pejorative. We would never 504 00:31:47,720 --> 00:31:52,480 Speaker 2: tolerate in this country the labor conditions and the safety 505 00:31:52,520 --> 00:31:58,480 Speaker 2: conditions and the environmental conditions that happen in some of 506 00:31:58,520 --> 00:32:02,120 Speaker 2: the countries and some of the factories where we import 507 00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:08,400 Speaker 2: these products. So that's the price, right. We want to 508 00:32:08,440 --> 00:32:10,920 Speaker 2: be a first bold nation. We want to have quality 509 00:32:10,920 --> 00:32:12,960 Speaker 2: of life for our workers. We want to have safety 510 00:32:12,960 --> 00:32:14,960 Speaker 2: for our workers. We want them to have a quality 511 00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:17,120 Speaker 2: of life that's good, and we want to pay them 512 00:32:17,240 --> 00:32:19,080 Speaker 2: enough money so they can afford to buy the car 513 00:32:19,160 --> 00:32:20,440 Speaker 2: that they just manufactured. 514 00:32:21,560 --> 00:32:24,360 Speaker 3: That is a balance, and it works in the United States. 515 00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:27,160 Speaker 2: In the countries that were importing this crack from they 516 00:32:27,160 --> 00:32:29,800 Speaker 2: don't believe in the same things they dump the pollution 517 00:32:29,920 --> 00:32:31,080 Speaker 2: in the rivers and don't care. 518 00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:32,080 Speaker 3: They dump the. 519 00:32:33,880 --> 00:32:37,040 Speaker 2: Waste, the e waste in the Pacific Ocean and don't care. 520 00:32:37,640 --> 00:32:39,680 Speaker 2: They don't pay their workers enough money to buy the 521 00:32:39,680 --> 00:32:42,000 Speaker 2: product that the worker just manufactured, and they don't care. 522 00:32:42,880 --> 00:32:45,440 Speaker 2: Somebody gets hurt, loses an arm, they send them home, 523 00:32:46,480 --> 00:32:49,280 Speaker 2: they don't care. We care because we actually have a 524 00:32:49,280 --> 00:32:51,920 Speaker 2: society here, so that is worthy of protection. 525 00:32:54,680 --> 00:32:57,280 Speaker 3: And it's not like it wasn't working. It was working, 526 00:32:59,800 --> 00:33:01,760 Speaker 3: So that's fine. 527 00:33:01,880 --> 00:33:06,800 Speaker 2: I mean, you can deify foreigners making your stuff, but 528 00:33:07,040 --> 00:33:10,800 Speaker 2: I prefer to create conditions where my fellow Americans are 529 00:33:10,800 --> 00:33:14,000 Speaker 2: making my things, especially if it's things like I don't 530 00:33:14,040 --> 00:33:17,720 Speaker 2: know a car that goes eighty miles an hour. 531 00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:21,640 Speaker 3: But you do. You Hey. 532 00:33:22,160 --> 00:33:25,480 Speaker 2: Another this one from the page of plastic crap from China. 533 00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:29,320 Speaker 2: Not only do the refrigerators not work because they use 534 00:33:29,520 --> 00:33:33,240 Speaker 2: junk iron. That's the reason why, the reason why these 535 00:33:33,320 --> 00:33:37,320 Speaker 2: refrigerators are pieces of crap. Now, unlike the refrigerators that 536 00:33:37,320 --> 00:33:40,600 Speaker 2: were manufactured in the United States that your grandfather had 537 00:33:40,640 --> 00:33:44,160 Speaker 2: and your grandmother had, and your mother and father, it's 538 00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:47,680 Speaker 2: because the Chinese don't even use iron in iron, and 539 00:33:47,720 --> 00:33:50,520 Speaker 2: you need iron for there to be a compressor, so 540 00:33:50,560 --> 00:33:52,680 Speaker 2: they've figured out a way to get around it. And 541 00:33:52,840 --> 00:33:57,280 Speaker 2: the compressors are junk, and apparently now they're blowing up. 542 00:33:57,320 --> 00:34:00,160 Speaker 9: The recall now includes nearly one million many fridge is 543 00:34:00,200 --> 00:34:02,720 Speaker 9: in the US, all made by frigid Air. The Consumer 544 00:34:02,760 --> 00:34:06,280 Speaker 9: Products Safety Commission says electrical components can short circuit and 545 00:34:06,360 --> 00:34:10,200 Speaker 9: ignite plastic used to make the frigid's products overheating, melting 546 00:34:10,280 --> 00:34:11,279 Speaker 9: or catching fire. 547 00:34:11,080 --> 00:34:14,719 Speaker 2: Taching fight That great, that wonderful. You remember your grandfather's 548 00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:16,880 Speaker 2: frigid air refrigerator catching fire. 549 00:34:17,680 --> 00:34:18,600 Speaker 3: See, that's what they did. 550 00:34:18,760 --> 00:34:22,200 Speaker 2: They closed down the American manufacturing shit, the jobs overseas 551 00:34:22,320 --> 00:34:25,320 Speaker 2: cat the label. So you thought you were buying something 552 00:34:25,320 --> 00:34:30,480 Speaker 2: of quality because brand loyalty is a thing, right, But 553 00:34:30,520 --> 00:34:33,400 Speaker 2: it's a piece of jump that melts and catches fire 554 00:34:33,480 --> 00:34:34,480 Speaker 2: and burns down Your house. 555 00:34:34,640 --> 00:34:38,879 Speaker 3: Isn't that great? I mean everything in your house, every 556 00:34:38,920 --> 00:34:43,600 Speaker 3: single thing in your house. Your mother's vacuum. 557 00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:45,560 Speaker 2: If you grew up as I did in the late 558 00:34:45,640 --> 00:34:49,120 Speaker 2: seventies and eighties, your mother either had an electro Luxe 559 00:34:49,160 --> 00:34:50,240 Speaker 2: vacuum or a hoover. 560 00:34:50,600 --> 00:34:53,440 Speaker 3: The hoover was made in Pennsylvania. 561 00:34:53,520 --> 00:34:55,840 Speaker 2: The electro lux which is actually a Swedish company, but 562 00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:58,879 Speaker 2: was manufactured and assembled in the United States, was made 563 00:34:58,880 --> 00:34:59,600 Speaker 2: in Connecticut. 564 00:35:00,520 --> 00:35:06,799 Speaker 3: It was a monster. It scared the dog. Now go 565 00:35:06,880 --> 00:35:08,160 Speaker 3: try and buy a vacuum. 566 00:35:08,200 --> 00:35:12,600 Speaker 2: I bought a blackened deck or dustbuster, American brand, but 567 00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:17,719 Speaker 2: flip it over and it's made in China. And it's 568 00:35:17,760 --> 00:35:21,120 Speaker 2: a plastic piece of crap. Like it doesn't even vacuum 569 00:35:21,200 --> 00:35:26,000 Speaker 2: up the crumbs on the dinner table. Your mother's hoover 570 00:35:26,120 --> 00:35:28,920 Speaker 2: would vacuum up the entire dinner table. 571 00:35:28,800 --> 00:35:30,240 Speaker 3: Like it was unbelievable. 572 00:35:32,880 --> 00:35:36,360 Speaker 2: So we close the factories down, shipped all the jobs overseas. 573 00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:39,520 Speaker 2: Now we impourt plastic crap from China. So we're trying 574 00:35:39,520 --> 00:35:44,200 Speaker 2: to reverse course and put Americans to work. Because Americans 575 00:35:44,480 --> 00:35:47,720 Speaker 2: making things for our fellow Americans, and then you buying 576 00:35:47,760 --> 00:35:51,360 Speaker 2: it from a fellow American that circulates all this wealth 577 00:35:51,440 --> 00:35:54,480 Speaker 2: in the country, and it has a multiplier effect that 578 00:35:54,640 --> 00:35:59,839 Speaker 2: has made the American prosperity movement post World War Two 579 00:36:00,560 --> 00:36:04,120 Speaker 2: a thing of noteworthy and glory, and we need to 580 00:36:04,120 --> 00:36:06,400 Speaker 2: do it again for the second half of the century. 581 00:36:06,480 --> 00:36:11,879 Speaker 2: I'm ready, are you, lou Penrose on KF I am 582 00:36:11,920 --> 00:36:14,160 Speaker 2: six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio 583 00:36:14,200 --> 00:36:17,720 Speaker 1: App kf I AM six forty on demand