Why Tariffs Are NOT Hurting These CEOs | Josh Smith & Bayard Winthrop #435 | The Way I Heard It

Part of the problem with how we view goods now is the trend for the cheap and replaceable. This runs to everything, furniture, clothing, tools and goods across the board. Disposable, cheap goods verses repairable more expensive goods. So much used to be repairable in equipment and parts but is now throwaway and we have lost the skilled labor that could repair those items (motors various tools, etc). So we import cheap, loose the ability to build and repair or build things and try to figure out what went wrong. Many in my generation were raised to take care of what we have and not trash and replace.

I’m a small manufacturer who took the decision from the beginning to keep my suppliers and manufacturing local and damn glad I did.

First off, Mike Rowe, thank you for what you are doing for our country. I went and looked at the MKC website because I Terry a knife and was very impressed with the quality. Unfortunately, for me or them, I carry a folding knife. They specialize in straight knives. I will continue to try to buy from your advertisers and the people that you highlight. Great job Mike!

A lot of manufacturers who are not on the stock exchange near me are actually starting to do better. The mainstream media does not see it because they are not on Wall Street.

I’m getting educated at 63! I realize I can understand basic principles and have more intelligent conversations .. and I can do the moral “small things” as a consumer, and just generally live and and love as smartly as I can. Thanks for helping us see the forest for the trees.❤

Al or manufacturing jobs disappeared during the 80s and 90s . I worked 2 jobs while my husband worked 1 job, yet i get less than half the SS my husband gets. That's messed up! I still work at age 66 as a school bus driver. The children are great but there are those few who haven't had any parenting because the parents have to work. In the 70s, i did work manufacturing jobs, and i loved it. I felt like i was building important things.

We need more people to be vocal about all of this and change the way America thinks about security love the info thank y’all for this

I live about 7 miles from Crucible Steel, it had been going downhill for a few years. But, as the jobs keep going to overseas that’s a lot of jobs going away from here. Over the years we have lost Carrier Corp and New Venture Gear, jobs gone elsewhere!

Mike, Have you ever interviewed one of the out-of-the-workforce-not-looking-for-a-job individuals you speak about in this show? It would be a good show to hear you interview a FEW such people. I for one would like to hear their situations and their reasons for choosing, or being drawn into, this lifestyle.

Just remember, as the corporations say - we can’t foot the extra cost and have to increase product shelf costs - their CEO made a 30 million dollar bonus…