So now you are differentiating between different types of “goods”? LOL. Destroying the US industrial base IS a national security issue, just like sending krytrons to ISIS. We won WWII because we were able to outproduce the Axis.
A krytron switch is an electrical device. I think they even can have applications in other electronics. You just can’t export them.
How about exporting Eotech and Aimpoint holographic sights to Islamic State? Those are simple consumer goods; I even own a few.
And yet you can’t export them to Islamic State...
You might be right in that. Problem is, it's not being destroyed.
Now, it is true that we are increasing industrial production while reducing the number of industrial workers needed.
If you want to "solve" that problem, you have to do what the English hand weavers did in the early 1800s - storm the factories and destroy the machines.
Its a moot point anyway. The US and the West is a doomed civilization. The barbarians are going to overrun it and China will carry the mantle of civilization.
People like Hillary, and people like Clinton, and people like you sold it out.
I voted for Perot. We got Clinton and then W, then Obama. Let me connect the dots.
Clinton, most-favored-nation status for China, Loral and missile tech transfers to China. China now militarizing those islands in the South China Sea.
The discussion is irrelevant. You and I are not going to see the de-regulation that we want, nor the budget cuts. I am not going to see the debt erased, nor tariffs imposed on third world slave labor cesspools (I agree with fair trade deals with the developed world — such as Europe, Canada, etc)
The socialism will come, the illegal immigrants will continue coming, family as an institute will continue to be degraded in the US.
At some point, the wrong Muzzies (not that Pakistan constitutes the right Muzzies) will get a nuke and vaporize Manhattan and collapse the US economy.
That is the future we have to live with. As Rome succumbed to barbarians, so will America. I’m just hoping things don’t completely collapse before I’m adequately dug in.