[NewRomeTacitus]

As others on this thread have admonished: Never say never. Until the dozer pushes my carcass over the pit's edge I'll consider this OUR country before so-called "civil servants", power intoxicated judges (time for implementing oversight) and invaders whose only right is humane treatment during their swift deportation.

While I'm ranting let me say we should be INsourcing all processes and manufacturing that would prevent our nation from winning an unforeseen conflict, which means a revitalized manufacturing and agricultural base reborn from what we do best: Technology. Companies that resist upgrading for the sake of cheap labor (neoslavery) need to be taxed and SHAMED while their competitors who improve their operations while utilizing native workers should be rewarded with incentive breaks.

In short - a total reversal of this "Race-To-The-Bottom" greed glut that has brought us to these current circumstances while corrupting every level of commerce.

The time window is closing shut. Will average Americans wake up to the fact that their future is being sold out in trade deals and surrendered sovereignty or will they blithely ignore the news for the car-crash morbidity of "reality entertainment"?

[Travis McGee]

They won't wake up until the economy implodes.

[Czar]

First, I agree with everything you said. In addition to the very valid point you raised about revitalizing the manufacturing base so that we are self-contained when it comes to military conflicts, there is something else now transpiring which we need to factor into our thinking: BRAC.

Note the extremely long laundry list of new bases proposed for closure. Kind of makes one wonder doesn't it? That hi-tech lean, mean fighting machine is just ducky, but if the balloon ever goes up with Red China (and it will), we're going to need our military bases and a much revitalized defense industrial base, including the previous and unparalleled subcontractor/supplier base.