When the next big war comes, and we can’t get foreign-supplied gas or oil spare parts for our foreign-made aircraft and weapons, and our foreign-grown food supplies are cut off, and our foreign-built and foreign-ported merchant ships won’t carry our troops, I hope someone is still around to remind you of your love for the big integrated world market.
>>When the next big war comes, and we can’t get foreign-supplied gas or oil spare parts for our foreign-made aircraft and weapons, and our foreign-grown food supplies are cut off, and our foreign-built and foreign-ported merchant ships won’t carry our troops, I hope someone is still around to remind you of your love for the big integrated world market.<<
You “argue” like a liberal. I am not professing “love” of anything. I am acknowledging the reality. You can no more uncouple the current world marketplace than you can hold back a hurricane with your finger.
And your statement is, of course, wrong to 10 decimal places. The US is still the number one manufacturer in the world and could gear up in months if the world decided to go nuts like you suggest. But I am sure you will be safe in your shelter with secret passwords and 10 years of SPAM tins and beer to use as currency.
Pie in the sky dreaming and “oh me oh my” whining accomplishes exactly nothing.