This is not commercial work, this is defense work—which is supposed to be done by US citizens. We will rue the day if we ever have to go to war against China and our supply lines stretch all the way to India. Free traders love to worship the almighty dollar, but there are real consequences to going cheap on national security. The problem with many Americans is lack of foresight: if you don’t see it happening right now, we dismiss the possibility. Unfortunately, we will likely learn that less too late and find out that the “bargain” we thought we got was prohibitively expensive.
I remember learning when I was a kid that the only reason the USA could fight a war on 2 large fronts- Europe and the Pacific was because we had out own ore mines, our own steel mills, and our own aircraft and ship building companies. Otherwise, we never could have beaten Hitler or Hirohito.
You would NEVER learn that lesson today. Instead, you might learn that our strength is due to:
1. Free trade
2. Diversity
3. Our ability to outsource as much as possible
4. Our willingness to share our “great ideas” with the world (this last is actually from the Boeing Dreamliner commercial)
5. Our environmental regulations
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...the only reason the USA could fight a war on 2 large fronts...was because we had out own ore mines, our own steel mills, and our own aircraft and ship building companies...
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Yep. Yet somehow the lessons of history just aren’t being taught in school anymore. Political correctness is deemed more important.