“And, as much as some of you love blame it all on regulation, “
I doubt you could even build a textile mill in the US anymore. You couldn’t get it past the EPA.
Quite a sweeping, convenient and totally unsupported statement.
I knew families who operated sewing plants for several decades until the cheaper foreign imports put them all out of business. None ever mentioned regulations as the problem.
Their labor cost was around $10.00 per hour and plants in Asia were paying about $0.50 per hour or less, twenty or so years ago. And sewing is fairly labor intensive.