If the USA could re-industrialize, make the things that we consume, and export some of the things that we manufacture, then the USA would not have to borrow from industrialized nations to pay for U.S. government expenses.

Instead, if the USA re-industrialized, it would have the resources to expand government to provide healthcare benefits, unemployment benefits, and other benefits with the income taxes provides by fuller employment with the industrial manufacturing jobs that the USA would re-create.

We will very soon have no technology base available if the USA fails to  re-industrialize.

Over the past few decades, the U.S. government has destroyed our manufacturing capability with “Free Trade” legislation. The loss of manufacturing also has contributed to the destruction of the nation’s technical capabilities – the same ones that won WWII and created the economic power that the USA enjoyed for a few decades after WWII.

The US future is bleak unless we change our educational and foreign trade priorities.

Gerald R. Spencer, P.E., President
Spencer Engineers, Inc.
Houston, Texas

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