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Then, why have I been hearing for so long that it is to our advantage to allow all our manufacturing to move to other countries? If it is bad for Japan to stop manufacturing why is it good for the US? Can you imagine someone 200 years ago trying to tell the citizens of a young USA that they would be better off importing all manufactured goods than attempting to create their own? Didn't I hear that one of the major reasons that General Lee finally had to surrender was that the Confederacy was dependent on agriculture and had very little manufacturing capability? Should we feel safer knowing that we have shut down a large part of our defense industry? Can we buy cruise missiles cheaply from Taiwan. Are they coming to take me away?

We manufacture information. The "stuff" based on that info can be made anywhere. BTW, in agriculture no nation can ever match us. Which reminds me. How is Ukrainian wheat production nowadays? When they were Commie, there were wheat shortages over there even though the Ukaine was known as the "breadbasket of Europe."