Trump has got to get this going now.
In terms of pharmaceuticals, I think we could gear up faster - but you have to realize the pharmaceutical industry has been under major attack here so they haven’t invested a lot in this country. But it’s probably a much nimbler industry in terms of production and could get up and running faster.
Also, why aren’t we buying our on-line purchases in furniture, hardware, home decoration, etc. from companies in the US? We can certainly make this stuff, and we used to do so, but then we outsourced it to lower-priced but shoddy Chinese manufacturers. Actually, even IKEA, which I used to buy and assemble (I’m good at assembly!) and which was produced in Sweden and other near-by or “supervised” countries, was high-quality...and then they started getting a lot of stuff manufactured in China. Holes aren’t drilled straight, the steel is old-style, and I’ve pretty much stopped buying it. I check the label to see where it’s been made, because Chinese-made stuff is garbage.
Profits.
All boils down to pure profits and paybacks that CONGRESS has likely been enjoying ever since our meds/supplies and just about everything else got farmed out, to China.
The problem with a LOT of ‘Made in America’ items, is that COMPONENTS to make them, come from....China :(
I think this is a golden opportunity for Trump to take this ‘crisis’ and Make Things Great, in America, Again.
Prices will have to go up, at least in the short term, but...guess what? We’ll know where our Rx meds and medical supply chains are coming from.