“Anything, we make, they make cheaper.”
But they have to get it here. And THAT we can make very expensive.
Same old stupid chauvinism. American knowhow has already been sold. Jobs and industrial productiaon has been sold or given away. The space industry gravity center now resides in UAE ownerwise, same for the airline tech business. Your universities are owned by one arab or another, and your federal lands - including landmarks - also. Military hardware developers on the bleeding edge has been and are being sold to China for pennies on the dollar. The US is very rapidly devolving into a third world nation, complete with an oogabooga strongman on top and a gazillion adoring TV-sheep at the bottom.
I've got news for you: everything "they" needed to get from there, they've already bought - be it people, real estate or technology. Or haven't you noticed that you're really on the path to having to buy smartbomb kits from China?
No it’s not, when was the last time you overpaid for anything at Walmart. Nothing there is made in the USA.
Plan A US Navy institutes a close blockade on our own ports (its always more convenient when the targets come to you).
Plan B Enact Warren Buffett’s tariff plan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Import_Certificates
Either one will do the trick. :o)