Jeff Coleman

Beef and lamb producer

[Jeff Coleman @jefforyhc]

@TowardsJesusorg We need a lot more of this. There is a battle for souls.

[Jeff Coleman @jefforyhc]

@nmlinguaphile @gulick50198 We spent time last year in the Navaho and Hopi areas of Arizona. I saw many homes with no electricity.

[Jeff Coleman @jefforyhc]

@SarahHuckabee I have stayed in many state parks around the nation. Arkansas State Parks are the best.

[Jeff Coleman @jefforyhc]

@SenTomCotton @JohnBoozman @RepRickCrawford Push for Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley's embargo on U.S. diesel exports. Push

[Jeff Coleman @jefforyhc]

@DerrickEvans4WV Not true - the take home pay is only $6.70 from that $7.25.

[Jeff Coleman @jefforyhc]

@SenTomCotton @JohnBoozman Most goes to SNAP

[Jeff Coleman @jefforyhc]

@SarahHuckabee @JohnBoozman Most of it goes to SNAP

[Jeff Coleman @jefforyhc]

@mikeroweworks would you please get with @benshapiro and offer him some lessons in speech, cadence and public speaking?

I love you Ben, but Mike's words flow over me like a cold mountain stream, while yours, ever how salient, cut my ears like razor blades.

Get back to me/Thanks

[Jeff Coleman @jefforyhc]

@Beast52001 @DrcharlieWardQ I went and looked that up - No, the Bible does not say to kill those who wish you dead. In fact, both the Old and New Testaments present teachings that directly contradict this idea.

[Jeff Coleman @jefforyhc]

@DrcharlieWardQ He was pretty mad.

[AJ Inapi (Allan) @aj_inapi]

Older Americans, you already lived through this.

You were told globalization would make goods CHEAPER.

And it did.

But nobody told you the full price.

In 1979, America had roughly 19.6 MILLION manufacturing jobs.

Then the model changed.

During the 1980s and 1990s, American companies increasingly moved production overseas because labor and manufacturing costs were lower.

Consumers benefited.

TVs got cheaper.

Clothes got cheaper.

Electronics got cheaper.

Household goods got cheaper.

But then something else happened.

The factories in American towns started closing.

Steel.

Textiles.

Furniture.

Machinery.

Electronics.

Auto parts.

Jobs that once allowed someone without a four-year degree to buy a house, raise a family and retire disappeared.

Then came the major policy decisions.

1994: NAFTA took effect after being negotiated under President George H. W. Bush and implemented under President Bill Clinton.

2000: President Clinton signed Permanent Normal Trade Relations with China.

December 2001: China entered the WTO.

The argument was simple:

Open global markets.

Move production where it is cheapest.

Give American consumers cheaper products.

And perhaps greater economic integration would eventually change China.

That was the BET.

Then came what economists later called:

THE CHINA SHOCK.

Between 2000 and 2010, America lost almost 6 MILLION manufacturing jobs.

Not all because of China.

Automation mattered.

Technology mattered.

Recessions mattered.

But researchers estimate Chinese import competition contributed to roughly 2–2.4 MILLION American job losses from 1999–2011.

And here is what Washington missed.

A worker who lost a factory job Monday did NOT magically find an equally good job Tuesday.

Some towns never recovered.

Wages fell.

Communities declined.

Families were disrupted.

The economist said:

“The economy will adjust.”

The worker discovered:

I AM the adjustment.

Then America sold the next generation another idea:

GO TO COLLEGE.

The factory job your father had was disappearing.

So get a degree.

Borrow money.

Enter the new economy.

Student debt went from roughly $340 BILLION in 2001 to about $1.65 TRILLION today.

Think about that generational progression.

Grandfather:

Factory → paycheck → house → family.

Father:

Factory closes → economy restructures.

Son or daughter:

Borrow tens of thousands of dollars because now you need a degree to compete.

Meanwhile politicians in BOTH parties kept the basic globalization model moving.

Then COVID hit in 2020.

Suddenly America discovered that the cheapest supply chain isn't necessarily the safest supply chain.

Pharmaceuticals.

Semiconductors.

Medical equipment.

Critical minerals.

Electronics.

Industrial components.

So much had become dependent on production thousands of miles away.

President Trump had already begun challenging that model.

In 2018, he imposed major tariffs on Chinese goods.

Washington screamed:

TRADE WAR.

And yes, tariffs can raise costs.

That criticism is legitimate.

But President Trump was asking a fundamentally different question.

For decades Washington asked:

Where can we make this CHEAPEST?

President Trump asked:

What does America NEED to be able to make itself?

Then something interesting happened.

President Biden came in…

…and kept many Trump-era China tariffs.

Industrial policy returned.

Semiconductors became a national-security issue.

Critical minerals became a national-security issue.

Domestic manufacturing became a national-security issue.

Why?

Because the argument had changed.

Now President Trump is back.

And Americans are understandably looking at:

Gas.

Groceries.

Rent.

Insurance.

Interest rates.

Mortgage payments.

Those bills matter TODAY.

But underneath that noise, America is attempting something much bigger:

Rebuilding domestic manufacturing.

Rebuilding supply chains.

Expanding semiconductor production.

Expanding pharmaceuticals.

Expanding steel.

Expanding energy.

Expanding advanced manufacturing.

Companies including TSMC, Micron, Apple, NVIDIA, Hyundai, GM, Ford, Eli Lilly, Roche and Johnson & Johnson have announced major U.S. investments.

But understand this:

An announcement is not a factory.

Factories take YEARS.

Semiconductor fabs take YEARS.

Mines take YEARS.

Supply chains take YEARS.

Workforces take YEARS to rebuild.

So here's the contradiction.

America spent roughly 40 YEARS building this economic model…

Then expects President Trump to reverse it in roughly 20 MONTHS.

Read that again.

FORTY YEARS IN.

TWENTY MONTHS OUT.

You should criticize President Trump when policies fail.

Demand lower prices.

Demand results.

Demand accountability.

But also understand what is happening beneath the daily headlines.

America spent decades telling capital:

GO WHERE PRODUCTION IS CHEAPEST.

Now America is trying to tell capital:

BUILD IT HERE.

That transition was never going to happen overnight.

The real question isn't whether every Trump policy works.

Some won't.

The question is:

Twenty years from now, will Americans look back at this period as the moment the country finally understood that the CHEAPEST economy isn't always the STRONGEST economy?

Because millions of Americans already lived through what happened the last time Washington made that gamble.

They watched the factory close.

They watched the jobs leave.

They sent their children to college.

They watched the debt pile up.

And now America is trying to build some of it back.

That is the story underneath the noise.

[Jeff Coleman @jefforyhc]

@DeputyDawg82022 @JasonJournoDC Still. He is touring the circuit because of his last name.

[Jeff Coleman @jefforyhc]

@reason No one argued tariffs don't raise prices.

Tariffs are federal income, or they might level the playing filed for US producers.

[Jeff Coleman @jefforyhc]

@scrippsnews Our minivan served the family so very well. The kids are gone and we now drive an SUV, but for you cannot beat a minivan as a family hauler, especially during the baby seat stage. Attention Young Folks: Make US some babies!

[Jeff Coleman @jefforyhc]

@ryanvaughan .1 Rector.

[Jeff Coleman @jefforyhc]

@KidRock Where you at Rock, where you at?

[Jeff Coleman @jefforyhc]

@DrPJWilliams I think he told us why we might not follow him.

[Jeff Coleman @jefforyhc]

@StephenFleming My wife bought two toilets that need batteries because she like how they looked.

[Jeff Coleman @jefforyhc]

@BoyGeorge I never really followed your music. I just cried when I saw your video. I posted it on my FB page. You are brave Man George. What you just did takes guts.

[Jeff Coleman @jefforyhc]

@jacobin The first Klan operated primarily as an unofficial paramilitary wing supporting Southern Democrats. Now they have ANTIFA.