Trump has announced that he wants foreign engineering companies to come to the States, train up local people, and then leave. The goal is to build up an expert local workforce.
Laudable ideas. Pity he keeps shooting himself in the foot with his own cruel and asinine policies.
Why would an international company want to set up shop in the first place, when he’s tariffed the heck out of any supplies they might need, making their end products unprofitable to the rest of the world? Latest example – CLAAS, a high-tech combine manufacturer, is moving production of Canada-bound vehicles to Europe because of tariffs, leaving just the manufacture of vehicles bound for the domestic market.
Why would foreign engineering experts want to travel to the US and risk random roundup by ICE and detention without trial? Witness the raid on Hyundai, arresting the very people Trump wants to encourage.
But this whole effort depends on an educated domestic workforce to train – well-educated in science and engineering and innovative thinking. You know ... fact-based disciplines. In a time when facts are ignored, education as a whole is under attack, science is disparaged, and any thinking beyond Trumpian dogma is criminalized.
From laudable to laughable!
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