DemocRATS have, we once produced the most steel in the world. My dad worked in 1 large steel mill after WW 2, until he fell from a catwalk and damaged his spine. He was a Boilermaker. Those mills now sit rotting.
Only idiots allow their main industry out of their country.
Well, there was that little problem with air pollution
I remember too well seeing a brown dome over Pittsburgh
But yeah, we just exported all that to China, now Beijing is “brown”
I understand what youre saying but ask that you and many others here rethink that. They weren’t idiots at all, they knew full well what they were doing and cleverly managed to convince much of the population that it was to their benefit.
One should never let a main industry out, that makes sense but, what is a main industry? What about toilet paper and peas? Years ago we used to have a paper plant right next to a cannery. When I came back from the service it dawned on me one day while driving by how easy it would be should we ever need to for the two to work together to produce filters for gas masks.
I suppose that popped into my head because I knew that in the past companies merely retooled for what they were making to meet war time demands. On Monday they made cars and sewing machines, by Friday they were making tanks and guns.
Maybe its not to much of a problem if companies that don’t make many units a year, that don’t account for much of the GDP, to leave. Theres not much profit in investing in things like a company that sells electrical transformers. How much profit could there be off of a company that only makes a small number of units every year? Then again, our grid is part of our critical infrastructure. The Chinese entirely own world production. Here we are, relying on a technologically primitive and fragile industrial age grid, waiting for a replacement. We cross our fingers as protection against what could occur with many fighting against the Space Force necessary to protect the private industries trying to jump us ahead to a space based alternative.
I suppose there cant be too much harm if we let rubber monkey toy manufacturers leave. We don’t really need them...unless of course China decides they wont ship us some critically needed gaskets and O rings.