[The three basics of a real economy are agriculture, mining and manufacturing. You can add building roads and buildings to those three. What we have is a service economy and a consumer economy which is idiocy and cannot last. Too many consumers and not enough producers. Too many tax eaters and not enough taxpayers.]
Couldn’t have said it better. I am scrambling personally to move into light mnufacturing, even a little gardening/agriculture.
We used to have loads of light manufacturing plants in our major cities. My family was in sheet metal, we fabricated. Blacks, whites, Hispanics all worked there. Most lighting fixtures were made in America. The Chinese bought fixtures here, took them home and stamped out copies. That killed the American makers about 20 years ago thus killing that light industry.
For staters....tariffs