Not being a contrarian or an alarmist or anything, but its just something I've noticed every time I scroll the microsoft news sidebar on my computer. Every other article is something about a plant closure, or X company shutting down a location and laying off X number of people, etc.
I figure its just the media trying to make Trump and his tariffs look bad, especially since most of them are either smaller/regional businesses with aging equipment that refused to update and get with the times, older companies that have been going through the liquidation process since like 2018 and are just now finalizing it, or just complete crap companies making microgreens or some fake meat or something.
But it's just something I noticed and I was wondering if anyone else has noticed the same pattern.
Yeah. Ford promised to move manufacturing back to the US from Mexico in Trump's first term, and as soon as he was out, they resumed normal operations in Mexico. I'm also hearing (but need to look into it further) that FedEx got all the money to hire American, and then just hired a whole bunch of H1Bs.
I take a lot of the announcements from companies about bringing jobs back here with a huge grain of salt now. All they gotta do is gladhand about it while waiting 3 years until Trump is gone.
The only way real change will come is a combination of real benefit for companies to manufacture here, benefit for people working there, and ensuring it's something not easily reversed just because a Trump-like figure isn't in office.
Like I have been saying, mental instability is on the rise when the stability of life is on the decline. Careers? Hah, temporary at best.