Rebuilding American Strength: The Case for Manufacturing
Rebuilding American Strength: The Case for Manufacturing
Manufacturing in the U.S. is facing serious challenges. Over the last few decades, much of our production—both essential and non-essential—has been moved overseas, especially to China. This shift has had major consequences:
- Jobs disappeared
- Skills were lost
- Wages declined
- Business owners became disconnected from real work
- Even companies that wanted to stay in the U.S. were forced to leave to stay competitive
Why did this happen? The simple answer: cheap goods, more profit. The dark answer: globalism, New World Order: the targeted elimination of US domination – by internal and external people.
When something has gone to hell, its gone there with malice. Someone(s) did it. Someone(s) failed to stop it.
Hard to Come Back
American consumers like the low prices. Many don't care if its "Made in the USA".
But it has come with a debilitating cost: when a country stops making things, it loses the ability to make those things, or eventually if the trend continues, loses the ability to make anything at all. The succeeding generations grow up without learning hands-on work, rebels at exerting more effort than it takes to tap a computer keyboard. And soon people need the government or their parents, to survive.
A Dangerous Dependency
Today, America relies heavily on a country that isn’t just a competitor, but an adversary:
- Stealing technology
- Pushing for global dominance
- Ignoring human rights
- Spreading fentanyl – death and social turmoil
- Threatening Taiwan (and global chip supply)
- Buying land near our military bases
- Quietly flooding our country with military-aged men (thanks Biden)
- Owning the last administration through bribery and corruption
- And this is a short list
This isn’t how a healthy "business partner" acts.
The Hollowing Out of Business
Business owners who once oversaw large production facilities now outsource everything. Instead of managing workers or solving real problems, they become "investors" focused only on profits. Some never even see the products they once made—they just ship it straight from China to U.S. stores or online outlets.
The number of US marketing companies has exploded over the last decade. Paid for by cheap Chinese labor.
With extra profits, foreign-made brands flood the internet and TV with advertising. Meanwhile, American manufacturers—who make better products—but a lower profit margin, can’t afford to compete in ad space. The result? Lower-quality goods dominate store shelves, and better U.S. products go unnoticed. US businesses go bankrupt, and jobs go away.
The Profit Problem
US retailers often choose imported goods to line their shelves because the wholesale cost is lower and profit margins higher. That means some retailers won’t even consider U.S. made products, no matter the better quality.
Losing the Edge
We’ve lost more than just jobs—we’ve lost the know-how. Even if all manufacturing came back today, too few people would know how to do the work. Generations of skills have disappeared.
Even the things we still manufacture are affected. American businesses are sometimes forced to cut corners to stay competitive. Quality drops. Trust is lost.
The “pandemic” was a commie wet dream – kill jobs and income, give “free money” to enforced non-producers. Destroy work ethic. Make people prefer welfare to work. Ruin the country.
One example: my mechanic recently told me new car parts increasingly fail – something he had never experienced in a life of fixing cars. Customers blame his repair shop, but the real issue is low-quality imported parts. I’ve seen it myself, my four-month-old water heater just broke and was replaced. This proud American brand used to be "Made in the U.S.A."
The Problem
Not everyone can be a computer genius, social media influencer, or a stock market wiz. For kids just starting out or those with limited skills, manufacturing jobs give people work they can succeed at, be paid for, become independent with, something to build on. Without it, we lose not just our independent economic engine, but our safety and security as a nation and personal self respect.
People who won’t work hard soon can’t work hard. And, when someone stops being productive, they become a problem for themselves, their family and society.
Evil people (some bureaucrats and a few doctors) provide legal excuses for the able bodied to avoid work. This practice degrades everyone. Long term welfare recipients always vote for more welfare. Even a disabled person with clear intent can do meaningful, productive work if they don't give in to those who seek undermine them.
Those of us still working hard, paying our dues - seeing others get by without lifting a finger creates resentment. That resentment becomes frustration and hostility. Some of the marginally productive join the idle - why struggle when the system punishes effort and rewards dependence? When the state incentivizes idleness in the able bodied our culture dies. Generations raised without the example of hard-working adults at home, are more likely to follow an idle path. And once the pride in earning a living is gone, it’s hard to bring it back.
In the End
A nation that loses its work ethic and can’t produce its own essential needs, cannot last.
Hard work overcomes so many ills – idle hands really are the devil’s playground.
We’ve traded steel and sweat for cheap goods, and a growing dependence on those who seek our downfall.
Work hard, set an example. Some, I know, never get it – but many do.
Because, if we don’t make what we need, we won’t keep what we have.
And if we don’t fight for our future, someone else will take it.
Our survival includes manufacturing and those willing to work those jobs.