Re: PING! Michael

Michael Trew wrote:

On 11/22/2024 12:08 PM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:

On 2024-11-22, Carol <cshenk@virginia-beach.com> wrote:

Michael Trew wrote:

 
I shouldn't think that import tariffs will affect the price of
butter, unless it's butter from Europe, which is already sold
at a premium here.

 
I think the idea is 'buy American'.  Butter is mostly made here
for our markets.

 
Yeah, let us know how 'buy American' goes.  We just don't have
factories making stuff anymore.  People will pay the tariffs and
inflation will rise.

 
I guess the hope is that by making foreign parts unreasonably
expensive, it will become less expensive to start manufacturing them
over here again.  Apparently, since the microchip shortage, new
factories are being built somewhere vaguely near Leo's part of the US
so we can make our own semiconductors.

Good news!  I found out we are in the top 10% world-wide as producers
of some types of LED bulbs.  ?Lumix? (something like that).  Google is
trapped bwtween old data were we stopped making them and newer data
with lists of ones we make them and are now a top supplier of some
types.

Recently, I bought a 1965 Packard Bell color television console.  It
was all made in the USA, in Los Angeles.  It's a wonder that it found
its way to the east coast all of these years later.  I like the round
color picture tube with the corners cut off, it's so quaint.

Grin, I googled TV's and we still make them, especially specialty types
that are waterproof.

https://www.usamadeproducts.biz/electronics-televisions.html

 
Sorry for the DSI1 style slide off-topic, but I guess my point is
that we could make our own televisions and electronics in the US
again, like we did in the "good 'ole days".

I think that is partly the aim, at least with more countries on Tariff.

Pharmacuiticals may be the hard spot?  Single sourced ones.