In the short term, the consequences would be hard, but there isn't anything we buy that HAS to be made in China. We can, and would sharply accelerate, building factories here. We'd lose a couple of years of trinket buying while the economy is rebalanced. We wouldn't notice so much, because we would all be at work retooling America.
> In the short term, the consequences would be hard, but there isn’t anything we buy that HAS to be made in China. We can, and would sharply accelerate, building factories here. <
Excellent analysis! And I say that for two reasons. One, it’s because you are spot on. And two, it’s because I made the same argument in my post #8.
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It's almost impossible for the manufacturers we have now to find people with the education and skill sets to keep what we have going.
"Guidance" clowns in schools, college admissions and recruiting folks and parents have left us with a couple of generations of people who could never figure out how to run a CNC machine, much less program or troubleshoot and repair one.