The more I get to listen to this man, the more impressed I become with him. Trump has selected an outstanding Secretary of State. Speaking without a teleprompter or prepared script, Rubio gives an outstanding talk on our national economy.
A quick summary is we either reindustrialize our national economy, moving completely away from the ‘service driven’ narrative of years past, or we will forever consign ourselves to economic servitude. This is also the American perspective that undeniably affirms our baseline reason for cutting ties with Canada. Canada and mark Carney are wholly owned by the globalists.
Transcript:
SECRETARY RUBIO: “Thank you. Thank you, all of you, first of all, for being here today. Thank you – Jacob Helberg’s doing a phenomenal job. Everybody at our department is doing a great job, and I’m very proud of the work the State Department is putting in into these and other initiatives.
One of the things we really wanted to do in our time here, and one of the reasons behind many of the reforms we undertook, is to allow us to have a State Department that could move at the speed of relevance, which is something we used to say all the time. Now it’s become almost a cliche, but it really is important – because world affairs are moving so quickly, economic developments are moving so quickly, and so much of that is internationalized, and it involves what we do around the world as well.
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What is the challenge that we’re here to talk about today? Let me put it to you this way: I think we made a terrible mistake in this country – not – many years ago, under people that were in charge at the time, especially at the end of the Cold War. And that was the idea that the ability to make things no longer mattered. And no matter – it didn’t matter any longer where things were made. They were to be made in the most efficient place at the lowest possible cost. That meant more profits for the company, lower costs for the consumers, and that was the way the world would work. There was this fantasy, really, that the whole world would become a free enterprise, democracies, and that everyone would look us.”
“That ran into reality – the reality that that is not how human events have ever worked, that the nation-state still does matter, nationalism is still real, national borders still matter, and that countries are going to always act in their best interest. But the result of it is that it deindustrialized America. We lost our ability and our capacity to make things, and not just big things – not just the kinds of big machinery and things that we normally identify with industry – but even some of the most basic components that are necessary, that underpin economic life, especially in the 21st century.
This idea of moving to a service economy was certainly present during the Clinton and Bush 43 presidencies. It got revved up during Obama’s two terms and would have become a fiat accompli if Hillary Clinton had won in 2016. Fortunately for America that did not happen.
Rubio: And we woke up to the reality just a few years ago that we are suddenly, as a nation, dangerously dependent – dangerously dependent – on other nations for all sorts of things that we need, not simply for our economic vibrancy but, in many cases, for our national security and our very survival as a prosperous nation-state. And so now we are involved in this endeavor across the board to try to reverse those mistakes. And it will be the work of multiple administrations, but it starts here and it starts now with this one that is receiving attention at its highest level.
One way is just the basic ingredients that go into all this, and it’s why you’ve seen such a focus on access to not just critical minerals as raw material but also to the ability to process them. But the other is – has to be the ability to actually make things once again. And we have to understand that re-industrialization, that 21st century industrial activity is going to look different than it did in the 20th century. It’s going to involve far more skills. It’s going to involve – not just are our workers going to have to be better educated in what they’re doing, but in many cases, given the evolution and the rapidly changing dynamics of the modern world, they may have to be retrained multiple times in their career.
Change in the current world is accelerating. This is a direct result of the Internet. The internet allows for the dissemination of new ideas, techniques, protocols almost instantaneously. What used to take months or even years for new ideas to be heard now happens at the click of a mouse. AI is accelerating this change.
One of the crown jewels that have powered American innovation and, ultimately, powered American economic influence and power around the world has been our system of higher education. It has produced extraordinary research; it has produced extraordinary breakthroughs. I think the sad part about it is the number of things we have innovated or created, but then they’re made somewhere else. And so, I think in the 21st century, this partnership with higher education is important, and it’s important for two reasons.
Rubio goes on to talk about higher education providing the students with skills that are needed in an increasingly complex technological world. Rubio notes the question that many are asking which is is college worth it? Rubio does not cast aspersions on the many foolish degrees that some institutions of higher learning have been handing out. Rubio emphasizes the importance of higher education in a technological world.
Rubio: And I think this speaks to that, because it also – in addition to being good for our country – is an opportunity to say to students: If you come here and you go to school and you follow this curriculum, you will leave here not just with a paper credential but with the skills that make you immediately employable in a high-paying job, in a good-paying job with long-term stability. And so this partnership is critical because what I hope it means, what I hope it symbolizes – and not just symbolizes but what I hope it is evidence of – is how government partnering with non-government entities like our higher education system and the private sector, the combination of those three pillars – the private sector that needs the workers and knows what they need from the workers; the higher education system that can equip young Americans with the skills they need to fill those jobs; and government that ensures not just that it’s acting as a convening body, but ensures that our national policies reflect these priorities. These three pillars working together drive us towards this outcome that we want, and it’s very important.
Rubio has identified to everyone what made America great. Rubio speaks the truth which is something rare for a DC politician. This trait of speaking the truth makes him dangerous to those who want to keep the status quo. It is why some Democratic senators have publicly announced that they regret voting for him.
So, I think today is a great way to kick this off. We have great partners on board already. We hope to attract more. I want to thank all of you for being a part of it. And I – the last thing I want to say about this is that we understand that for this to work, this is not a two-year project. This is not a two-and-a-half-year project. This is a project that will involve sustainment for the long term. Multiple American administrations are going to have to make this a priority, which is why it’s so important that you see evidence that, at the highest levels of our government, now and for the future, you have that commitment.
Rubio’s remarks were made at the launching of the Foundry School which is another Trump administration effort to make America great again.
The Foundry School is a national program to train the entrepreneurs, engineers, technicians, and industrial leaders needed to rebuild American manufacturing. Foundry School is a project of Pax Silica, the Department’s flagship multilateral initiative to secure trusted global supply chains for the technologies that will define the next century.
President Trump’s reindustrialization agenda has already brought trillions of dollars in industrial investment to American soil. Foundry School will focus on turning that investment into jobs. American manufacturers will need an estimated 3.8 million skilled workers by 2033 in semiconductors, defense, energy, and beyond, and Foundry School exists to make sure Americans fill those jobs.