If you believe that clothes and stuffed toys are the extent of imported items you really need to start reading the labels on the merchandise you buy. To educate yourself read where it's made and the company name and address.
Quote: It's not like we couldn't start making clothes and stuffed toys again.
This snipet below shows you where you are wrong. Very sombering that are US Navy has and will continue to buy componets from china at an increasing pace.
While the direction of the U.S. naval shipbuilding industry remains on a downward slope, the situation is the opposite in China. China is aggressively investing in its shipbuilding capacity. It is expected to have a submarine fleet that is twice the size of the U.S. fleet of 33 subs by 2010. It has started building a new class of destroyer that is "believed to match the air defense capability of the DDG-51 class," says Brown. "In 1989, China had essentially no shipbuilding industry or market share. In a little over a decade, China has invested in its shipbuilding industry to become the third largest builder of commercial ships behind South Korea and Japan."
China now has the capacity to produce 16-million deadweight tons a year. Its China State Shipbuilding Corporation recently announced a $3.6-billion shipyard construction project on Changxing Island. "Once completed, the shipyard is expected to have the capacity to produce more than 4.5-million deadweight tons a year, making it the largest shipyard in the world," says Brown.
China is also investing heavily in its component suppliers. It has stated that it wants 100 percent of all systems, components and materials to be produced in China.
"More and more manufacturing of ship components and systems will migrate to China as DOD encourages foreign sourcing in its efforts to find the cheapest sources," says Brown. "This has already begun with regard to materials for naval components. The manufacture of entire components and systems will migrate to China in the next several years under current DOD policy with respect to outsourcing."
Its not toys or clothing you have to worry about, its things like STEEL, ARMOR, RUBBER (Synthetics) .... We cannot today remotely ramp up production to support our war machine if a major direct and sustained conflict were to take place fast enough.
We depleted stockpiles of just high tech weapons against an inferior force in the early days of IRAQ and AFGHANISTAN... When a direct conflict could be destroying 100s of planes or tanks a day, we could not currently produce them fast enough to replace the losses simply because we don't have the infrastructure left to do it..