Clothing, next to food, is one of our "essentials" and cutting a main source would have huge, unintended, devastating consequences.
This from the KQED website:
In 1960, an average American household spent over 10 percent of its income on clothing and shoes – equivalent to roughly $4,000 today. The average person bought fewer than 25 garments each year. And about 95 percent of those clothes were made in the United States.
Fast forward half a century.
Today, the average American household spends less than 3.5 percent of its budget on clothing and shoes – under $1,800. Yet, we buy more clothing than ever before: nearly 20 billion garments a year, close to 70 pieces of clothing per person, or more than one clothing purchase per week.
Did they tell ya in old America a married couple could buy a brand new home on one single income? And there was plenty of money left for shoes, medical, vacations etc. Try that in today's America.
We don’t need new clothes. we have to pay our obamacare fines. Food and water is what people cannot do without, and we have both. China imports those.
How much of an impact would a nuclear weapon going off in an American city have? It’s either a serious threat (in which case drastic measures are required regardless if they cause short term pain) or it’s not (in which case shut up about it). Also, manufacturing clothing will find a spot in the country I’d there is a need because China can no longer do it