All I am saying is, we need to do both.
We need to oppose interference in the economy by the government.
But we also, badly need to return manufacturing to America.
Manufacturing AND services, they are both productive of good things.
Markets do what markets are allowed to do.
Kick the drones out of government. Get them doing anything gainful in the private sector. Even flipping the proverbial hamburgers. Or being artists. Or send them to the oil fields of North Dakota to help out. Wherever. And make the taxes small. And make the reverence of God big. Watch a miracle happen again, and nobody had to throttle business with China to cause this to occur.
"Badly need"? We are #2 in the world in manufacturing.
$3.6 T - China
$3.0 T - USA
$1.6 T - Japan
$0.9 T - Germany
$0.7 T - Russia
$0.6 T - Brazil
$0.5 T - Canada
We still top Japan, Germany, and Canada (#s 3, 4, and 7) combined.
China has 19% of the world;s population, and makes 17% of the world's manufacturing. About as one might expect.
We have 4.6% of the population, and still make 15% of the world's goods. Not what we once were, but still a global powerhouse and model of efficiency.
Japan is the only major player that can boast a better population-to-manufacturing ratio than ours (1.7% and 7.3%).
(And China has used 3+ decades of double-digit growth, plus four times our population, plus very low wages in the manufacturing sector just to catch up, even though they have the same land mass / resource base that we have.)