Go to your local department store and make a list of a bunch of items that you can't find an American manufacturer for... like "alarm clocks". Then run a cost buildup for producing, distributing and marketing each item here in The States. What you'll end up with are retail costs so high that they won't sell. If we set up a bunch of companies to produce all such items as the only source of such stuff while forsaking imports, our CPI (Consumer Price Index) would skyrocket.
Indeed, sad, isn't it.
We can't "afford" to manufacture any more.
Making things, however, is a skill every country needs to practice -- I'd hate to think what might happen if we become a country of people who can no longer manufacture ... especially if a war with China ever broke out.
Manufacturing is foundational to every country, and those countries who cannot so self-sustain ... historically disappear.
We somehow must find a way to begin manufacturing again ... just like we need to find a way to bring other off-shored out-sourced trades like computer programming, accounting, etc. back to America so that we can once again become self-sufficient.
If we don't, we will not only eventually lose our national boundaries to a U.N. "nationalization", but we'll contribute to the setting up of a global "north-south" scenario similar to pre-Civil War America ... and that
can't be good in this dangerous nuclear age.
No matter how difficult the task of getting Americans in America to do everything again with regard to work behaviors, we simply can't afford not to do so.
BHO must do all that he can to make America self-sufficient again ...
... Or capitulate and apply for U.N. statehood ...
... And begin preparing for the
last civil war.
