Sorry, but if you'd look at what one of our remaining successful manufacturing exports currently are...you might get a sense of disquiet...
Planes. And we're losing that by virtue of importing these subassemblies. By value, there isn't really that much left for America...the tail section, a forward fuselage section, and some of the engines, and hopefully most of the avionics. Boeing will be doing the "final assembly" and getting its cut only then.
...the BRAINtrust, the DESIGN, is based in America.
Actually I know quite a bit about Boeing and its engineering operations. As a matter of simple fact, they have outsourced most of the engineering to the fabricators of the componentry.
I'll take brain-power jobs over manual jobs any day.
So would I, but guess what...they go hand-in-hand. Manufacturing is integrated. And outsourcing the fabrication engineering means we lose out.
It means we have the ability to *truly* sustain ourselves, as long as we have the brains and the freedom to use them.
You are hoist by your own petard.
I am an engineer. It is my job to design things, and part out those things to be made. I know a bit about how things work together.
The thing you all so against "out-sourcing" gravely miss, is that JOBS ARE BEING *IN*-SOURCED as well. In the end, it all evens out.
Read some Thomas Sowell or Walt Williams.