@stranger_in_a_strange_land I am not saying that we can’t become self-sufficient, if fact, if that happened I would be quite happy to close the borders and retreat. Considering the “pay to play” Congress, I don’t see that happening in my lifetime.
I am from the northeast and have seen the damage outsourcing has caused and completely support the return to the state of the country before we gave away the steel mills, electronics factories, textile mills, and even technical support.
We now have privatized jails, mercenary armies fighting wars in countries where we don’t belong and even outsource picking our crops. I am not sure that we can ever recover from all of this degenerate behavior. I do know that I will never vote for an incumbent of any party and will work to clean out our elected officials. Unfortunately, that is all that I can do and maybe it’s impossible.
This subject has really depressed me because I can’t see an end to it.