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Trade desk: Onshoring Risks Are Manageable
Erin McLaughlin at Barron’s warns that “as the global trade war escalates,” “companies moving manufacturing to the U.S. will likely face a long and bumpy road.” There are some points “that could make onshoring a challenge.” “Shifting manufacturing into the U.S. takes three to 10 years” due to the “intricate machinery” concerned in addition to “state and local permitting and environmental reviews.” Other challenges: “U.S. infrastructure is subpar” and our superior staff face a “skills gap.” While onshoring raises prices, a “manufacturing renaissance would have short- and long-term benefits,” such new “jobs in construction” and higher-paying “advanced manufacturing jobs” than many companies sector ones. “Better targeted economic and industrial policies” could mitigate the related risks.
Nina Jankowicz was the previous Executive Director of the Disinformation Governance Board within the Biden administration. Los Angeles Times through Getty Images
Libertarian: Jankowicz’s Censorship Bull
Biden disinfo czar Nina Jankowicz’s declare “that the State Department’s Global Engagement Center, charged with countering foreign propaganda, was never engaged in anything approaching censorship” is “abjectly false,” fumes Reason’s Robby Soave. Jankowicz informed Congress that NewsGuard and the Global Disinformation Index, which obtained State Department funding, have been “focused on combatting Chinese government propaganda rather than encouraging censorship of American media entities,” although GDI blacklisted libertarian and conservative shops for “including commentary that COVID-19 may have leaked from a Chinese lab.” (That’s now accepted because the most-plausible concept.) This places the deceive Jankowicz’s protection: By operating cowl for Beijing, GDI was “effectively complicit in the Chinese government’s most essential propaganda campaign. So much for the State Department paying disinfo cops to counter foreign misinformation.”
From the best: Fix Our Flawed Poverty Measure
Team Trump “recently promised that it ‘will not cut Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid benefits,’” lament Phil Gramm & John Early at The Wall Street Journal. But that listing shouldn’t embrace Medicaid, “the nation’s most abused welfare program.” While the primary two packages are closely self-funded, Medicaid and different welfare packages aren’t. They’re additionally “means-tested” based mostly on a census-set determine that “overstates the extent of poverty because it doesn’t count as income 88% of transfer payments” to the poor. The excellent news? The Congressional Budget Office issued a new poverty measure that “counts a higher percentage” of switch funds. “Pruning Medicaid enrollment based on a full accounting of the beneficiary’s income” would “dramatically” curb the deficit with out harming the poor.
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Mideast watch: Bernie Hates Palestinians
“Gazans are out in the streets to oppose” what Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders most desires to do, notes Commentary’s Seth Mandel: “enable Hamas to survive the war and keep charge of the enclave” by forcing “a vote to withhold arms to Israel.” His foundation for this? A sequence of “anti-Israel talking points” round alleged battle deaths of ladies and youngsters that “can be debunked with Hamas’s own stats.” “Sanders can complain about the Israeli government all he wants — Israel has been acquitted of Sanders’s charges by the Palestinian government itself.” And now “Gazan clans are striking back — very publicly — at Hamas in retaliation for its violent repression and mafia-like control tactics.” Which means “Bernie speaks not for innocent Palestinians but for their tormentors.”
Eye on China: Trump’s Schizoid Huawei Policy
“You might think” China tech main Huawei, is “no longer a threat to the United States,” observes Robert H. Bork Jr. on the Washington Examiner. But “recent action by the Federal Communications Commission suggests otherwise.” Last month the FCC “announced the formation of a national security group to investigate” the firm. Yet these efforts are undermined by a January lawsuit “against Hewlett Packard Enterprise for its $14 billion acquisition of Juniper Networks.” The “lawsuit makes no sense” as a result of “both HPE and Juniper are in fierce competition with other US companies” and the “globally dominant player, Huawei.” “While the FCC acts against Huawei, the antitrust division of the Department of Justice is buoying Huawei’s prospects.” The people within the Trump administration need to get on the identical web page.
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
