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Melon

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7. The US is advantaged on some pieces of manufacturing
Fri May 23, 2025, 06:34 PM
May 2025

Specifically polyethylene plastics and downstream. We have a natural gas and fracking advantage. We gave away those jobs a long time ago and they could have still been done here. There are plenty of underpaying jobs throughout our economy that manufacturing is a premium to what they are doing. You would still never “ give away”. If it can be done here, there is a reason.

Even some textiles are still here. It’s more specialty. But it’s here.

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