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This is not commercial work, this is defense work—which is supposed to be done by US citizens. We will rue the day if we ever have to go to war against China and our supply lines stretch all the way to India. Free traders love to worship the almighty dollar, but there are real consequences to going cheap on national security. The problem with many Americans is lack of foresight: if you don’t see it happening right now, we dismiss the possibility. Unfortunately, we will likely learn that less too late and find out that the “bargain” we thought we got was prohibitively expensive.

"This is not commercial work, this is defense work—which is supposed to be done by US citizens. We will rue the day if we ever have to go to war against China and our supply lines stretch all the way to India. Free traders love to worship the almighty dollar, but there are real consequences to going cheap on national security. The problem with many Americans is lack of foresight: if you don’t see it happening right now, we dismiss the possibility. Unfortunately, we will likely learn that less too late and find out that the “bargain” we thought we got was prohibitively expensive."

A big BUMP for this much-needed dose of common sense!

This is not commercial work, this is defense work—which is supposed to be done by US citizens. We will rue the day if we ever have to go to war against China and our supply lines stretch all the way to India. Free traders love to worship the almighty dollar, but there are real consequences to going cheap on national security. The problem with many Americans is lack of foresight: if you don’t see it happening right now, we dismiss the possibility. Unfortunately, we will likely learn that less too late and find out that the “bargain” we thought we got was prohibitively expensive.

I remember learning when I was a kid that the only reason the USA could fight a war on 2 large fronts- Europe and the Pacific was because we had out own ore mines, our own steel mills, and our own aircraft and ship building companies. Otherwise, we never could have beaten Hitler or Hirohito.

This is not commercial work, this is defense work—which is supposed to be done by US citizens. We will rue the day if we ever have to go to war against China and our supply lines stretch all the way to India. Free traders love to worship the almighty dollar, but there are real consequences to going cheap on national security.

Man! You're so 1980s, a real Reaganesque worldview there, thinking about things like national security, and the economic well-being of the country and it's people. That's soooooo 1980s.

Get with it, man. This is the New Era, globalism and "free trade" and profits above all. Can't concern ourselves with things like national security, secure borders, the shrinking middle class, especially if it gets in the way of bigger profits for companies. Why, don't you know, that trumps everything else. It's all "free trade", social Darwinism, greed, make your own and the Devil take the hindmost, and money, money, money. And if you can't "compete", well, screw ya, it's your own fault.

(BTW, in case it wasn't obvious, /sarc)