What you just wrote would have got you hung from a lamppost in 1776. And deservedly so. Just sayin'
If you really think businesses could not make profit by manufacturing in the USA then you are real misguided ignorant tool of the gloBULList cabal. So tell me Bert until the 1970's we made out own stuff right? So nobody was making a profit?
By the 70’s those countries out of action as a result of WW II were recovered or recovering and able to effectively compete. The smaller pacific rim countries came on in a big way. China is recent, say beginning in 2000 to be effective competition.
When you look back you do not see that the historical fact that allowed America such growth and market strength was the weakness of those countries that were truly devastated in the war.
Further, regarding 1776 and the early history, Massachusetts captured the textile industry that was pretty much English because it was cheaper to produce there than in England. That happened again when the textile industry deserted Massachusetts and moved south to not only better weather but lower operating costs.
The founding fathers were very much citizens of the world and knew the value of profit
the fact some manufacturing left is prima facie evidence that they were unable to make it here any more