I think all of us who think President Trump is the worse, most corrupt, narcissistic President we have ever had should join those who thinks he walks on water (He knows where the rocks are.) to support their campaign for on-shoring. Trump and his butt-kissing minions have said they want to bring back manufacturing to America. Few of our medicines and other medical supplies are made here. Their current push is for medicine and medical supplies to be on-shored. The pandemic brought to the forefront how much is made in China, Europe, and India.

Republicans have pushed globalization for their business supporters. Long ago the idea became rampant as one manufacturer after another was forced to move more and more of their work to other cheaper countries. They trained people and shipped over American technology in hopes of producing far cheaper products and selling some of those products there. It was called the Wal-Mart effect because Wal-Mart pushed manufacturers to lower prices or lose shelf space. One manufacturer said he lost the Wal-Mart contract by less than a half cent per item on a product costing a few dollars.

This is a real dilemma for many Republicans and some Democrats who have supported off-shoring as a way to keep prices down and to get money from businesses and their lobbyists. As millions of Americans lost their jobs, we couldn’t wait to buy those cheaper products. Since our purchases are over 70% of our GDP, I doubt we will buy as much considerably higher priced American made products causing the GDP to drop. Remember, on-shoring was called protectionism and it was a chief cause of the Depression.