[Rockingham]

All too true. If not for the Jones Act, the US commercial shipbuilding sector would expire. The problem is high US wage rates and an over-valued dollar, which are generally the bane of the US industrial base. These of course follow from the need for the US to keep the dollar strong in order to finance its massive public deficits.

[central_va]

high US wage rates = we need a 20% import tariff to portect wages and to promote dometic industry.
American industry = freedom.

[central_va]

After re-reading your insipid post you must think the core problem is we don’t have enough cheap skilled labor. The problem as you see it is we are not a third world nation with a first world military( like the USSR). Get this: there is no going back the Republican brand is now the labor party/middle class party. No going back.

[Reverend Wright]

“. All too true. If not for the Jones Act, the US commercial shipbuilding sector would expire. The problem is high US wage rates ...”

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Japan has a major share of world ship construction, and they are not a low wage-based economy. They also have higher energy costs.

The problem is incompetence, corruption and greed of US and generally, Anglosphere Corporate managers.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1256561/global-shipbuilding-capacity-by-country/