I posted something on this when we were talking about free trade and how communist nations were using their money to buy machines and produce enough product to pass inspection that it didn’t matter how much the manufacturing cost was, all that mattered was replacing United States manufacturing capability. A lot of people thought I was crazy because they all told me how good free trade was.
That was almost twenty years ago now on this site, and I think I titled it why free trade is not the answer. And boy you should have seen all these people defending free trade. And I’ve read through this post up to now and boy all the good points I see that other people are writing I pretty much covered 20 years ago. I wasn’t the only one saying those things but this conversation has been around for a while and it seems our government just didn’t care about any of that