aTmAg said:
AgBQ-00 said:
We pull all of our stuff home. All of the manufacturing needed to sustain ourselves, all of our military, everything. Let everyone else deal with their own defense and let them rot.
Included in this is all foreign aid, public and private is cut off. All food shipments are kept here in the US everything.
If we could manufacture everything here we would do so already. Socialism at home is making it too expensive to manufacture at home.
And if we cut off our exports, than foreign nations would cut off our imports too. We import a LOT more than we export (thus the record trade deficits). We would be SCREWED. We would be left trying to consume all of the money we have printed rather than goods we used to buy with it.
We have to reverse socialism at home to have a prayer.
We can manufacture everything here, and pretty much have at one point or another.
What we can't do is compete with slave labor and government subsidized manufacturing.
China helps obtain contracts, subsidizes the production until they have the monopoly, and then pull back. It's not fair. But it's ruthless and has been working for a few decades now.
There are parts I'd pay more for, if they were still made in the US, but we don't even have tooling here anymore. It's just not sustainable most the time, since companies here are competing with one hand tied behind their backs.
It hurt, but this was what Trump's tariffs were combatting, and it was working. .