There was a huge disruption to lots of industries between the 1950s and the 1990s. Lots of established machine tool companies (bridgeport and such) didn't modernize and went out of business or otherwise shrank.
But at the same time Haas automation started in the early 80s and is now quite large and successful.
The US economy is huge. Lots of other parts of it have made the US manufacturing part of it seem quite small.
If Canada invaded us very slowly, I'm sure we'd figure out (over the course of 2-3 years of massive disruption to our economy and lifestyle) how to make munitions and other engines of war at a much larger scale than we do right now.
Unless someone's willing to cut long-term contracts nobody is going to make this stuff in the USA when it's 10x more expensive to do so here than there. And right now, the counter-parties for any such contracts aren't trustworthy.
I think most people are happier just paying someone else to make these same things. "I want to wear nikes, not make them" is how people feel everywhere...
There was a huge disruption to lots of industries between the 1950s and the 1990s. Lots of established machine tool companies (bridgeport and such) didn't modernize and went out of business or otherwise shrank.
But at the same time Haas automation started in the early 80s and is now quite large and successful.
The US economy is huge. Lots of other parts of it have made the US manufacturing part of it seem quite small.
If Canada invaded us very slowly, I'm sure we'd figure out (over the course of 2-3 years of massive disruption to our economy and lifestyle) how to make munitions and other engines of war at a much larger scale than we do right now.
Unless someone's willing to cut long-term contracts nobody is going to make this stuff in the USA when it's 10x more expensive to do so here than there. And right now, the counter-parties for any such contracts aren't trustworthy.
I think most people are happier just paying someone else to make these same things. "I want to wear nikes, not make them" is how people feel everywhere...