Can you reverse over 40 years of closed mines, steel mills, processing plants and factories? A basic Chinese factory worker makes around $300 a month, a U.S. worker around $2,000. So I don't see how we could manufacture (compete) with China without inflation.

Also, supply chains are super complex and global. If the display in an F-35 is made with parts assembled in China does it count if it's one part, two, three?

I bet there isn't a single electronics manufacturer in the U.S. that has 100% fully sourced components from the U.S. I wouldn't be surprised if the figure is 80%+ from Asia.

China has already moved its output to shadow markets in Vietnam, etc.

The proof of how little basic manufacturing power we have is, again, artillery shells. Two and half years on and Russia continues to outgun Ukraine.

Why is that the case? There's no money in it. You have to build most of it from scratch in the U.S. with its limited steel manufacturing industry. The presses and furnaces are not something you order on Amazon.

All simple facts politicians won't touch with a 10-foot pole.

Whereas an update to the F-35 computer systems for hundreds of millions of dollars has a HIGH margin of profit. No profit in artillery shells.

And even in high tech we're fat, dumb and happy. $5.8 billion to Boeing and they can't even do the basic job of sending people into orbit and back.