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The desire was to import products that could sell.
They're basically the same thing.
American made prices were no longer competitive. Sales were zero
Am I the only one who has noticed that the more we've offshored, the less affordable things have become in relation to our salaries? Could it be that offshoring all of those high paying jobs has contributed to the affordability crisis? Of course, you'd have to look beyond the price tag to see that.
There has been general inflation over time.
The selling price for my house is now ten times what I bought it for.
The other side to the coin is that America now manufactures lots of stuff that is exported all over. We now make complicated stuff that most others cannot.
The president is not actually bringing jobs home, he is assuring that there will be new jobs making what amounts to different but new stuff. The old stuff is obsolete