Apparently the Right, Left, and Center agree on one thing and that is we are too dependent on China and other countries for too many commodities and manufactured goods. When we started to try to recover from the Pandemic it became very obvious how much America depends on China to supply us with vital items used by our Military, businesses, and the public.

            Pictures of huge storage lots of cars without Taiwan and Chinese chips, tens of thousands of containers sitting on ships off our over stressed ports, and China’s reaction to the Pandemic by closing the manufacturing plants and cities showed we are too dependent on Asia for our “normal” life.

            The answer to solving the dilemma is easy to see and to solve. We must “On-shore” the materials used to manufacture the items. The problems with the “On-shoring” is finding workers in the needed areas or even finding the millions needed. Finding already trained people is almost impossible so higher wages is required to get immediate help. For those plants being built thousands of craft people are needed now and they aren’t in the building areas so higher wages need to get them to move to the area for months. Building the plants may take years. Allowing time to train permanent workers that will be difficult to find and for the housing to be built for them. Those plants being built in low wage states will have to change to get workers to move in to work!

            Housing, food, and other items will increase in price significantly. That is called inflation! The Federal Reserve says it is better to increase unemployment by cutting investments and consumer demand.

            “On-shoring” is the direct opposite of what the Fed wants so “Damned if we do?”