“These sick folks are hurting our production of cheap sneakers and schidt for the US and European markets! What do we do??”
“Burn ‘em!!”
We’ve let businessmen and politicians talk us into farming out our manufacturing to a country that treats its’ citizens worse than cattle.
2010-“We’ve saved the US citizens TRILLIONS of dollars on manufactured goods, by moving production to China!”
2020- “It’s costing us TRILLIONS because we’ve become dependent on China for manufacturing, and we’re threatened by a CHINESE virus!”
The term “sucker’s bet” might apply to our last 25 years of economic policy...
