A country that doesn’t manufacture is not a real country. It’s a dependent outpost with a flag.
For the past fifty years, Americans have been sold a fantasy: that global “free trade” would benefit everyone, everywhere. That letting factories go abroad and turning our economy into a service-sector playground would somehow enrich us all. That we could import our way to prosperity.
Well, we tried it. What did we get? We got ghost towns where manufacturing once thrived. We got millions of Americans who don’t make anything but debt payments. We got flooded with cheap junk made in sweatshops, while being lectured that we’re spoiled if we don’t appreciate the low prices.
But cheap stuff isn’t free. It’s bought with the lives of underpaid workers overseas and the livelihoods of American workers here. We’ve outsourced everything: our jobs, our dignity, even our sovereignty, all in the name of an economic theory no other country believes in.
