I’m actually surprised that it took this long for this kind of thing to happen. Fully practicing conservatism in very socialistic countries usually leads to trouble, and the U.S. is the only fully capitalistic country to still exist in the world. A President Hillary Clinton will definitely help to “change” this!
The country should try to keep the ability to be self-sufficient in producing enough food for all Americans and manufacturing war materials if the country is forced to fend for itself in a time of war.
It's almost pointless if you can design superb, new, advanced, and powerful weapons, but don't have the infrastructure to produce them.