Ann Bauer
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That's my theory.
That's right.
And if you don't do it, Glenn's going to have to sing.
We actually do the assembly of electronic assemblies, and people don't realize how small the components are inside of your phones and everything else.
Parts of these phones are one millimeter by a half a millimeter, and they have to be placed within one micron of accuracy on a board and soldered down.
You know, you can have all the microchips in the world, but if you don't know how to put it on a board, it doesn't be any good.
And what we do, what I do has been outsourced for 40 years in this country.
There's less than 50,000 employees that do what I do in this country.
No, it's not done by hand.
Okay.
No, sir.
It's done by machinery.
The machinery, the machine that places that part on a board costs a half a million dollars.
But you have to train somebody how to program that machine, and you can't train them in two to three weeks.
It takes me six to eight months to train an employee.
Yeah, a lot.
And the seriousness is we have companies that when Donald Trump announced that he was going to bring the manufacturing back, our website got shut down three times in one day.
And 90% of the companies that called us, they said, well, we can't get our information out of China.
Well, no, you're not going to get your information out of China because the information that I need to build, they're going to hold on to it.
The source codes, everything else that's needed to build it brings circuit assembly.