Love My Country, Loathe My Government: How Trump Is Fixing the Revenue Side of the Federal Government and, In Turn, The Nation's Economy

As readers of this blog know, I have never voted for a Republican for President since I began voting in the 1970s. Thus, I am not a Trump voter. However, I have avoided coming down with Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) and have kept an open mind about him. I find him obnoxious, graceless, and certainly not smooth.

However, he has been effective in other facets of his life and he has been effective as President so who cares if he is not graceful and eloquent? Consider the following stats as a historical review:

When Trump left office in 2021, the average price of a gallon of gas was $2.42, when Biden left office the average cost was $3.08.
When Trump left office in 2021, the average 30 year mortgage rate was 2.65, when Biden left office the average cost was 7.04%.
When Trump left office in 2021, the average cost of a dozen eggs was $1.47, when Biden left office the average cost of a dozen eggs was $4.95.

I could go on but you get the idea: I do not care what a politician's personality is as long as he or she delivers results for Americans, much like Trump did in his first term and unlike what Biden did in his only term.

Since coming into office three months ago, Trump has made excellent progress on several major issues facing the country including illegal immigration, illegal drugs flooding into the country, wasteful government spending, and the need to develop the country’s manufacturing base. Over the next series of posts, we are going to focus on the last two aspects of his progress, eliminating wasteful government spending and developing the country’s manufacturing base.

We have already done a series of posts on Trump’s attacking of wasteful government spending which began with the following post:

https://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2025/02/february-2025-by-numbers-part-2.html

We will get back to wasteful spending since Trump and Elon Musk have continued to identify stupid and wasteful government spending since the above posts on wasteful spending were discussed.

Today, however, we will review the various sources and companies that have promised to invest in America as a result of Trump’s policies. Revenue and expenses/costs are part of any business and Trump is a businessman. Thus, today let’s focus on “revenue:” generating jobs, wealth, and eventually taxes. And in the following posts we will go through the incredible amount of wasteful spending that he and his team has identified, something any business owner should always be doing, optimizing and hopefully minimizing his company’s costs.

But today, Trump’s efforts to bring investments and jobs to the country:

1) Apple recently announced that it will bring up a quarter million square foot factory in Texas by 2026. This factory will be focused on building artificial intelligence servers and this effort will create about 20,000 research and development jobs across the country.

It also announced that it plans to spend a half trillion dollars in the U.S. in the next four years. These expenses and investments will be spread out across its many product lines including purchases from U.S. suppliers and filming TV shows for its streaming service.

According to Apple CEO, Tim Cook: “As a proud American company, we're thrilled to continue to make significant investments in the US. Today, we’re announcing a $500 billion commitment to support American innovation, advanced manufacturing, and high tech job creation.”

2)Kimberly-Clark recently announced that it plans to domestically invest $2 billion over the next five years. This will be the company’s biggest U.S. investment in over 30 years.

This investment will greatly expand its manufacturing base to keep up with domestic demand for its many consumer products. The company expects this investment to create over 900 high end industrial automation and advanced manufacturing jobs.

According to Group Vice President for North America, Russ Torres: "This landmark investment represents a strategic bet on the American consumer and our ability to drive innovation-led sustainable growth for Kimberly-Clark. It reflects the confidence we have in our long-term growth plans and complements a broad range of commercial and R&D investments we have been making throughout the business as part of our Powering Care transformation journey."

A new factory in Warren, Ohio will be spread out over 1 million square feet. A new regional distribution center in South Carolina will streamline and improve the company’s logistics and delivery capabilities.

3)The United Arab Emirates recently committed to spending/investing a whopping $1.4 trillion in the U.S. over the next ten years. These investment will be done in various fields including AI, semiconductors, energy, and manufacturing.

For example, Emirates Global Aluminium will build the first new aluminum smelter in the country in 35 years. Such an investment is expected to double U.S domestic aluminum production.

4)Saudi Arabia’s crown prince recently announced that he wants his country to invest $600 billion in the U.S. over the next four years. According to a Saudi spokesperson: “The crown prince affirmed the kingdom’s intention to broaden its investments and trade with the United States over the next four years, in the amount of $600 billion, and potentially beyond that.”

5)Japanese Prime Minister, Shigeru Ishiba recently promised to boost Japan's investment in the U.S. by $1 trillion after a recent meeting with Trump. Part of this commitment involves boosting Japan’s importation of U.S. liquefied natural gas.

The Prime Minister, during the meeting, also pointed out how two Japanese car companies, Toyota and Isuzu, have plans to build factories in the U.S.

[Note: these stories and actions were reported by reputable news sources including Reuters, Associated Press, Japanese Times, and other sources.]

Big companies and wealthy nations are committing to making big investments in the U.S. as a result of Trump’s efforts and business negotiating skills. These investments will create jobs and wealth, the “revenue” side of the equation we discussed above.

But investments in America and our economy are not related to these huge investments discussed above:

IBM - $150 billion to be spent over the next five years for manufacturing operations.
Thermo Fisher Scientific - $2 billion over the next four years to expand its manufacturing and innovation projects.
Corning - $1.5 billion to expand its manufacturing location, adding 400 new jobs.
Merck - $1 billion investment to build a new manufacturing plant in Delaware to create more than 500 new jobs.
Amgen - $900 million investment in its Ohio manufacturing operation.
The Bel Group - $350 million investment to expand its U.S. manufacturing across several states.
Nvidia - $599 billion investment over four years invested in its AI infrastructure.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing company - $100 billion investment in its U.S.-based chips manufacturing.
Johnson & Johnson - $55 billion investment over four years in its manufacturing, research, and development operations.
Roche - $50 billion investment in its U.S. manufacturing and research operations, creating more than 1,000 jobs.

I will end this discussion here but we could list out dozens of other domestic and foreign companies and nations that have committed to invest trillions of dollars in the U.S. economy over the next decade or so.

And this is why I do not care that Trump is an obnoxious, crude person. The only thing that matters is positive results, regardless of what you think of the person creating these positive results. The investment plans discussed above, the “revenue” component of the business of government, are amazing. Over the next several posts we will continue to discuss the unbelievable number of wasteful projects and efforts that are wasting taxpayer wealth every day, the “expense” side of the government.

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