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$B Chutzpah

Donald Brady

13 May 2025 — 1 min read

"The ‘new model’ is factory jobs for life—for you, your kids, and your grandkids"- Howard Lutnick, U.S. Secretary of Commerce.

What does this mean to you? What does it mean in light of this administrations tariff actions, supposedly to create motivations to move America's outsourced manufacturing back to the US? What does this mean with this administrations moves to gut science, double down on an energy economy based on carbon, and invest heavily in replacing as many jobs as possible with AI?

The only thing I can see is that they want to create a society comprised of a very small elite, and an indentured mass. They aren't going to create 1950's well paying factory jobs where you could build your "American Dream".

The chutzpah of this statement though coming from a billionaire.

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