Importing less foreign goods and bringing back some of the manufacturing that has fled the United States would help but that would throw a wrench into the “global” thing, wouldn’t it?
Our PetroChem industry is in a strong growth phase at this time.
Also, it has become nearly as cheap to manufacture in the US as China.
U.S. Manufacturing costs are almost as low as China’s, and that’s a very big deal
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3305686/posts
JUNE 26, 2015
If we can keep government from strangling business, we would see more manufacturing domestically.