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Paul Krugman writes, On Manhattan 7th Avenue, near the corner of 39th street, there's a larger than life statue of a garment worker, a man wearing a skull cap hunched over a sewing machine. The statue is a tribute to the local history. It stands in the middle of what's still called the Garment District. After all, in 1950, New York's Apparel in Industry employed 340,000 workers. But that industry is gone now, not just from midtown Manhattan, but from the United States as a whole, having moved to low wage countries like China and increasingly Bangladesh. No serious person mourns the offshoring of the apparel employment. I do as somebody who'd like to wear American clothing, who has tried to help save the the Cone Denim Company which made the best denim in the world. They're out. You know, I can't afford to make it here. You know why? Because we offshored everything. You know why? Because we're stupid, that's why. So I actually do mourn that, but I don't really count in Paul's world. But I digress. For a poor nation like Bangladesh, apparel jobs are a big step up from the alternatives. Even in our heyday, mostly it only employed immigrants who, despite being represented by powerful unions, were paid low wages and often faced harsh working conditions. Oh, wait a minute. So wait a minute, let me see if I get this right. What about your insistence of keeping illegals here because they will work for low paying jobs? You remember, jobs Americans won't do. So are you now saying we want to get rid of all those low paying jobs that Americans won't do? I mean, I'm, I'm not with you, Paul. I'm just trying to understand your reasoning here. I mean, have you changed your mind on that? Is there no one in America that would gladly take a sewing job over scrubbing toilets in a hotel? Nobody, as I said, no serious person wants the apparel industry to come back again. But Donald Trump's economic team aren't serious people. This coming from the biggest clown of my lifetime. Last week, Howard Lutnick, the Commerce Secretary, went on CNBC to declare that Trump's tariffs will bring back US production of T shirts and sneaker and towels. The host just started laughing at him because we all know better than he does. There's no reason to believe that either he or his boss think this was a joke. And their nostalgia for industries of the past seems to be matched by surprising hostility towards the industries of the future. Okay, all right. Now we're starting to get good again. First, our hard working dishwashers, fruit pickers, lawn maintenance or service style jobs for people just like you, Paul, that will hire people at a lower wage because they're illegal and you can get away with anything you want. Oops. I mean, you can help them achieve the American dream. Are these jobs nostalgic? Because with the onset of AI in the next few years, I think they are. But wait, I'm hostile towards AI. I'm confused, but Krugman goes on. Now the Trumpiest view of international trade pretty much begins and ends with a view that whenever Americans buy something made abroad, no matter how much cheaper it is, it may be to import a good rather than try to produce it domestically. That's a win for foreigners and a loss for America. No, Paul. God, you're stupid. Products that are more inexpensive or that are inexpensive are always a win for Americans. Always. Unless it completely guts our ability as a country to stand on our own. Also, why should we give so much money to the biggest slave owner country the world has ever known? Message to you progressives. America's not so bad compared to what China is doing currently. Now, instead of standing up to them, you know, we, we, we just want to be independent so we can, and I'd like to live without the slave labor of some of these countries. You know, if we're making sneakers here in the US at least it wouldn't be a line full of children spraying, you know, lead paint on Nike shoes like it's most likely happening away from our shores. But, but I digress again, by shipping our jobs to China, Paul, buying our iPhone and socks from China, are you not doing the same things the elites like you did before and during and even after the Civil War? Well, it'll hurt the economy. We did jobs here in America on our American assembly lines, actually allow people to afford college for the next generation or even themselves to better their stations. Even though you have done everything you can to destroy our universities through your horrible progressive ideas and you know, through government subsidies that you have raised the cost of college. So you know, since we got into the business of giving loans for colleges, guaranteeing those loans in 1963 to tuition was a, an adjusted, inflation adjusted $2,487. Now it's almost $10,000. That's an increase of 292%. Four times the cost in real dollars than it was in 1963. What happened? What changed? What changed? He continues. I mean Trump has slapped high tariffs on Canadian aluminum, which is cheap because smelting uses a lot of electricity and Canada has abundant hydropower and aluminum is important for US Manufacturing. Yet Trump somehow thinks Canada is exploiting us by offering us a key industrial input at a good price. But back to T shirts and sneakers. We definitely shouldn't be making those for ourselves. But what should we be making instead? Well, here's what we are going to be making, Paul. Nothing. We're not going to make anything unless we have a hardworking, well educated, motivated workforce with cheap energy and the cutting of crazy regulation in which companies can afford to grow and build and want to come here because we have the best conditions and the best labor and the cheapest energy. That's what made America America. But what you have done, you have killed the well educated with your support of the teachers unions and everybody else controlling Eduardo, just. You want an example? Just check what you were saying while our children were out of school during COVID because of your support. You know, next thing that you cut was the motivated by advocating for higher taxes, more red tape. Plus out of control labor unions. You know, where the lazy and the corrupt, they just can't be fired. Can't be fired. You killed motivation. So let me see. Well educated, you killed that one. The motivated, you killed that one. You killed that one. Because not only the red tape, but with DEI and ESG and CRT programs, you also teach everybody. You'll never make it without us. You're never made. Why try? You've killed everything. And do I even need to remind you of your anti cheap energy lectures and your love the growth of government regulation because oh my gosh, we've got to get rid of our. We have to get rid of our hydroelectric power here and take those dams down because that's so colonial. Oh my gosh, can't take this guy. Well, free trade purists would answer whatever the market decides, let private firms figure out what's profitable to make in America. And even if you aren't a free trade purist, you have to admit the government doesn't have a great record of picking winners. Oh my gosh. Have you just admitted this out loud without even knowing this? Your support for the Green New Deal, support for things like, I don't know, Solyndra. Are you, Did I miss an op ed where you're like hey boy, that was a mistake. Yet I, like many economists, have come around to the view. Listen to this one. This is his big announcement. This is big change in his life. Well, I've come around to the view that maybe we should engage in a Limited amount of industrial policy using subsidies. Oh wow, Paul, the heavens have opened up for you. You've you finally come around to the idea of government subsidies. How refreshing from you. What a shock. What an unbelievable turnaround for you. You mean to tell me that you've gone from a supporter of the public private partnerships, the Green New Deal that just funds entire sectors, big government programs, to now somebody who can find, who can finally embrace the idea of government bailing out failures. Wow. Making partners with private corporations, with our government, using the little guy's tax dollars to give to the billion dollar companies money from the average person, the average working man and woman, right to the billionaire. Wow, you have come so far, Paul, you really good for you. You know, there are two big reasons limited industrial policy is back in vogue. That word isn't even in vogue. One is that it's become increasingly clear that there are important positive spillovers between technical technology firms. Silicon Valley is now more than the sum of the individual companies located in south of San Francisco. It's kind of an industrial ecosystem of shared services, a pool of skilled workers and an exchange of knowledge. Oh, Paul, you mean like every other industry? Somehow. But this one is different. I mean other than Silicon Valley being originally funded by the DoD, CIA and the federal government. How is this different? You know again, other than it was the greatest concentration of wealth perhaps ever in the history of man. Think of that. Silicon Valley, probably the greatest collection of wealth in the history of all mankind. We gotta get the government in there to help those poor starving billionaires. The aren't these the titans, the billionaires? Are they somehow different than the titan and billionaires that have to pay their fair share and who are unelected fascists like Elon Musk? I mean, I'm so confused, Paul. Are you now admitting that Elon Musk alone is is capable of creating an industrial ecosystem of shared services, a pool of skilled workers and with his willingness in action not to patent technology, but to release it to help the planet. Is he an important force that for an exchange of knowledge? Wouldn't he be one of those? If we want America to be competitive and high tech, we need government policies to encourage the formation of these industrial ecosystems. In other grimmer reasons, we need industrial policy because of geopolitics. Circa 2010. Listen to this. Circa 2010, not many people worried about how much of the world's production of advanced semiconductors, which are now crucial to almost everything, was concentrated in Taiwan. No, Paul, you weren't. In 2010, you couldn't see over the Give that quote from Paul Krugman that you gave me earlier about the Internet. I mean, you were the one that wasn't concerned about semiconductors and high powered chips.
