Wrong, get the government out of the way and we can create anything. Much of the industrial base is old and has not been updated or modernized so a complete restart would have to be initiated without taxes on such. In that light, the midwest would be radically challenged by the population and technology shifts to the southwest and south.
Then our industrial base wouldn’t be destroyed.
Of course, if you get government out of the way, we could soar. Without that, our base is destroyed and we cannot create wealth.