>>We have American companies that DESIGN the products. They don’t actually have to be manufactured here. That can be done with cheap labor elsewhere.
I think I understand. All we need is 200 million people designing products, and we don’t have to manufacture anything, provided we can protect our patents from overseas pirates; and providing they will pay us for the use of our patents.
We can also buy our tanks, planes, and other military hardware from other countries with the money they pay us for designing them, provided we don’t reveal any military design secrets.
Have you really thought this through?
No, he hasn’t thought any of this through.