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A Modest Proposal For The U.S. Auto Industry: Stop Building Cars

All the outsourcing sounds good & can be good for the bottom line. However, we've forgotten that many industries, particularly electronics & automotive, are issues of national security. What happens if we go to war with China over dwindling natural resources, like oil? Or, what happens if China become unstable. Already, this downturn has forced the Chinese Gov't to place troops in some areas heavy in closed factories. They have large numbers of migrant factory workers, many of whom are male & under 25.

Historically, whenever the male-female ratio in a generation tips towards 60% males... there is unrest. Thanks to the 1 child law & the aborting of female babies, that is what China is looking at.

So, China blows up & all of our manufacturing is there... Or India & Pakistan go to war... & we've oursourced all of our software & call centers to India. What then?

Such industries do not automatically restart. For every product outsourced, we lose skills that we might one day need. It leaves us to reinvent the wheel.

Americans, of all classes, need to learn that there are things that must be paid for.... either in higher production costs that carry on down the line... or in higher taxes. But in return, we have jobs... & a self-sustainable, self-defense.