China, Collapsing Yuan, and US Manufacturing

The ongoing collapse of China's currency and economy which started last week, crashing the DOW Jones Industrial Average and world's stock markets, and the closing of over 200 Walmart stores in the USA, means there's room for American manufacturing to take over all the stuff we won't be getting from China.

Trump, if he wins the Republican party nomination, says a lot of things that aren't true but make headlines. He's either nuts or manipulating the media. He's certainly tapped into the mainstream public outrage. 37% of Democrats have said they'll vote for him because "Hillary is a lyin' B17ch", to paraphrase the most common man on the street responses. Mothers especially hate Hillary. I'd rather see a saner person in office, but if its a choice between Hillary the Traitor (violating the Official Secrets act is the definition of Treason) or Trump the Blowhard, it will be Trump. He's the lesser evil, and doesn't hate America like Hillary clearly does. At least he wants to create jobs, which Hillary denies is a problem with the current administration. 94 million unemployed is a huge problem. I'm one of them. Hillary is going to jail. Sanders holds more of the remaining Democrat vote than she does. Communism has failed everywhere it was tried, and Norway paid for its communism with oil money, which ran out a few years ago and resulted in mass shootings and unemployment. Their benefits are ending and racism and hate crimes are on the rise in that nation. This is the true end of Communism. The money runs out, the party is over, and killing starts. Not very nice. We can't afford that here. We are a huge and diverse nation, and our prior concentration into cities built around cars was stupid. Long commutes are stupid. Low wages only works if you have low expenses, and over priced houses with long commutes means high expenses, requiring high wages. If you can't get the wages, the rest doesn't make sense.

Trump has talked about a 45% trade tariff on Chinese Goods, which is fine by me. I like manufacturing. Manufacturing is a great employer. The jobs are easy to learn, they pay a living wage, and employed people are too busy working to be drug addicts and welfare moms. They stay married because they have to money to stay together. Full Employment after WW2 was the best thing that every happened to America, and made us very stable and healthy as a nation. It was the hippies that screwed everything up. All those spoiled children on drugs, breaking families and refusing to work. We're still trying to recover from all their greedy mistakes.

I would love to be in a position to create Ready Reference sheets for libraries where I work such that Design and Manufacturing students can find a bunch of resources without having to do the same research twice, or a hundred times. Tell them about 3D CAD, not waste time on useless plastic 3D printers. Most parts need CNC for injection molds and specialized machines to make the load-bearing parts in a manufacturing process. General purpose 3D printers only make mock-ups of the approximate size, no actual strength, and not smooth enough to make a finished good of any value. 3D printers are toys.

Students are young. They have ambitions. They need information and tools to take their ideas and make them reality. Direct them to articles and books on design philosophy and how-to so they can build stuff we need, get a business around their gizmo, and get it made and profitable in stores. We can't do that so long as China has slave labor. The Foxconn suicides should never be forgotten. Things are so bad in China factory workers kill themselves.

So this currency crash in China is a good thing. It will make factories in the USA think hard about location, profitability, and wages, and they can't win in cities. They want employees, not drug addicts. That means they can't hire in cities. Cities are rotten, and full of welfare and junkies and murderers. They have to move out of the rotten cores and into the boonies. People will move to the jobs. And if the job sucks, they'll move to a better one. Mobility is obvious for the Millenials. It is better than living at home after graduating college.

If we built more funny little cars like the Opel Cadet or the Datsun 510, cheap and simple and not that fast, but reliable with a manual transmission, that's got a future in the America I can see we're approaching whether we want it or not. We're better off with jobs and homes than welfare mothers and communism.

Well, better than those cars anyway. But still simple, and trade speed for cost and slower means it takes less metal to be safe, lowering weight and costs. Young people could be doing this in little towns rather than suffering despair in the big city.