Well if we need to build ships, planes and tanks, the government could ask China and Korea to build them for us.
The ability to pay wages to individuals and concerns outside the United States, beyond the reach of the Internal Revenue Service. The outcome results in more out of work US citizens and less revenue for the US Treasury, a win win in anybody's book. Even when US citizens find jobs, those jobs are likely to be service sector jobs, the fastest growing least financially rewarding and benefits providing jobs in the nation, often only available on a part time basis. Full time employees are just so costly and unwarranted.
Manufacturing
High Tech
Clerical and Records related
H.R.
The list continues to grow as our unemployment figures worsen and our US Treasury income decays.
The United States was a power second to none in 1990. Where was the impetus for gutting our economy?