Shaun Rein on bringing back manufacturing to America

If Trump, Howard Lutnick, Scott Bessent want to bring low end manufacturing back to America to create low paying jobs for Americans, we should make a rule that their kids & grandkids should work in the factories first. 

 

Instead of designing dresses & shoes, Ivanka should sew clothes & cobble shoes together for her brand. 

Instead of Kai hitting golf balls, she should work in a factory making golf balls or the clothes for Tiger Woods, her mother's boyfriend.

Donny Jr could work as a foreman in a rare earth mine or gas field - he's full of enough hot air.

No, I want my kid and future grandkids innovating the next iPhone or drone company, not making them on the factory floor.

I want my descendants staying healthy by running in Nike or Hoka shoes, not making them. 

Yes, China benefits from trade with America.  But we benefit from trade with China too.  Our prosperity over the last 25 years is largely based on the backs of Chinese, Vietnamese, Cambodian workers.

We should be thanking them for making our lives better, not pillorying them. 

We should have a rule - any Congressmen or Cabinet member that supports war or reshoring low end manufacturing should be forced to have their progeny go to battle or work in factories first. 

I'd bet the warmongering and voodoo economic theory would stop immediately.

~ Shaun Rein, LinkedIn post, May 20, 2025