John Tanizer
Appearances
Today, Explained
Tariffs hit like a Mack truck
If you don't mind moving up so he has just a hair move a little bit.
Today, Explained
Tariffs hit like a Mack truck
Currently here, we assemble trucks. We don't manufacture them. We don't make the parts that go into them. We put them together, and most of those parts are made somewhere else in the world. They used to be made here.
Today, Explained
Tariffs hit like a Mack truck
It could be a year. It could be two years. But what we're looking for is a path forward to thrive and not just sustain and exist. In this economy that we're in currently, there's no going forward. The only way forward is to level the field with the rest of the world and allow Americans to compete. I hear constantly that the jobs they're talking about, Americans don't want to do.
Today, Explained
Tariffs hit like a Mack truck
Maybe garbage picking or food picking or... We did it all. We built this nation. We built this country. Right now, if we were tasked with trying to build the road system that we currently have, how did we do it? We can't even fix the roads that are already here. We built the entire country. The United States of America was nothing. And it became the global shining castle on the hill.
Today, Explained
Tariffs hit like a Mack truck
And then something changed, and we've been on a steady decline ever since that point. We did it before. We certainly can do it again. But it's going to take change.
Today, Explained
Tariffs hit like a Mack truck
So your answer to the concern about the tariffs is everything's going to be hunky-dory? Everything's going to be just fine.
Today, Explained
Tariffs hit like a Mack truck
We are a service economy currently, but things are still made everywhere. There may be more AI involved. There may be more robotics. But people are still a huge part of the process. It is what built the middle class in this country. And you see what happens when it leaves. We're living it right now. Look at a gear what that used to be and Lucent and Western technology. They're all gone.
Today, Explained
Tariffs hit like a Mack truck
All of them. All those great jobs. It built the valley. You know, you used to say a name like, you know, Lucent. There are 4,000, 5,000 people working there making good money. They are the ones who bought all these homes, who shopped at all these stores. It's not there anymore. And we want to bring it back. I want it back.