What we need to do is to re-introduce AMERICAN production, back to America.
We are buying everything from the People’s Republic of China.
That needs to be reversed, and our production returned to America.
Just my .02
It has already begun to happen.
This brings up an interesting series of questions. Maybe someone on FR has the figures:
What was actual US total industrial output for 2018 (or, if not available yet for 2018, then, 2017), in dollars, adjusted for inflation if appropriate.
It’d also be interesting to see individual figures for industrial exports to our top 10 export markets (countries).
Then, what were US total industrial imports in dollars for the same year?
And again, it’d be interesting to see figures for US industrial exports to our top 10 export markets (countries).
It might also be useful to see similar figures for agriculture (including raw lumber and such) not included above.
The citizens can reverse it any time they wish, by refusing to buy Chinese products.
Are you suggesting a different solution, involving government men with guns?
Undoing past promises made by Democrat politicians to base constituencies might indeed require such action, at some point. But voluntary actions need to be reversed voluntarily, by offering a better production environment in the USA. This is achievable, but not without stepping all over a different set of Leftist policy imperatives - and the GOPe has shown no more stomach for that than they have for rolling back politically-driven entitlements.
While I do agree that as much manufacturing, as possible, should and could be moved back to the US, no matter how much comes back, as long as Congress can get their greedy hands in the cookie jar and we have a never ending caravan of 3rd world, UGLY, coming over the border to get benefits, it won’t matter.
The more jobs that come back, the more money is being made. The stronger our economy the more immigrants are going to come here and leech off of those funds.
I’ve read before that if Congress, set aside the funds like they were supposed to and didn’t steal from it and only those eligible for it, got their money, there’d be no issues with any of it. But, it’s being used and abused and handed out to illegals, like it’s candy.