And yet, many of our modern wonders depend on things that can’t be had domestically in sufficient quantity if at all. There is no one size fits all best policy for every commodity.
There are complaints about becoming a service economy, but in truth an economy is always a service economy. Its medium may vary, but it is always selling a service.
Some of the biggest political follies are those that lock up domestic resources, unnecessarily throwing our dependence upon foreign sources. This isn’t to protect nature, this is to move its travails to another part of this terrestrial ball, and usually where it would be done much worse than it could be done here.
This country is capable of producing every single consumer product domestically if it warned too. A Fact. I see you are a globullist apologist and not a patriot.