A PBS host questions whether bringing back manufacturing jobs is even worth wanting. Her claim that the economy’s growth justifies abandoning manufacturing ignores the 6.6 million factory jobs lost since 1979. PBS is pushing a globalist agenda, framing self-reliance as outdated to prop up a service-heavy, import-dependent economy. This isn’t economics or reporting—it’s globalist and Democrat Party propaganda dressed up as news.
The Harvard professor’s response is just as calculated, parroting the same narrative. They claim the economy is inevitably service-based, but a nation can choose its path—we want to manufacture and grow in the USA. This is taxpayer-funded betrayal of American workers.
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PBS Host: This focus on bringing back manufacturing jobs has raised the debate as to whether this should be even something that the administration, that the president, uh, should be wanting at this point. And Greg, you note this as well, that over the decades, we’ve seen a decline in manufacturing jobs in the country while the economy has continued to grow, um, and far exceeded, uh, most other countries around the world. What do you make of the president repeatedly saying that his desire is to bring those jobs back to the United States? And how realistic do you think that actually is?
Harvard Professor: I don’t think that’s realistic at all. If you look at manufacturing employment as a percentage of total employment, it’s been declining for many, many decades. Part of its international trade, but a larger part of it is actually automation and the fact they’re moving towards a service based economy. You know it’s similar to what happened a couple centuries ago where most people were farmers and we slowly moved away from agriculture as we saw advances in agricultural productivity and people moved into other sectors of the economy. Now people are moving out of the manufacturing sector into the service sector of the economy. And for some reason, some people think that’s a problem. Service sector jobs are, can be great jobs. I mean I teach at Harvard. Harvard is a, is a service sector employer. You teach at CNN. CNN is a service sector employer.
This show was on PBS, not CNN.
Harvard Professor continued: There are good jobs at these firms all the way from the president of these organizations down to the janitors of these organizations. So there’s no reason Americans need to be in manufacturing for us to be prosperous.
PBS Host: And also that begs the question, what happens if some of our allies or adversaries decide to retaliate by also tariffing, um, these service sector industries as well? Uh, that, that’s right now they’re focused on goods, but, um, you know that they have said nothing’s off the table at this point. Ernie, I, I wanna bring up something, uh, that you have, um, researched. It was cited when I interviewed Janet Yellen last week. The, the former Treasury Secretary and Fed Chair, when she said that these policies, if enacted, would cost the average household about $4,000 a year.
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