[central_va]

Asian manufacturing gets about 3% margin of profit on assembly and manufacturing.

So in a global conflict where the ChiComs are the enemy, think taiwan, what are these manufactures in China going to produce? Weapons to kill Americans that's what. That American owned factory will be confiscated and turned into a munitions factory in a millisecond.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

+1

Reality bump.

Conservatives used to understand obvious stuff like that.

What happened??

[sam_paine]

what are these manufactures in China going to produce? Weapons to kill Americans that's what. That American owned factory will be confiscated and turned into a munitions factory in a millisecond.

LOL. A cable box has zero overlap with AK47 tooling. And before you get your Star Trek fantasies out, a consumer grade satellite TV receiver does you no good trying to build aerospace/military avionics, unless they want 100% failure rate in the field.