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Look at the arithmetic of being dependent on foreign oil. Now imagine being dependent on foreign food, clothing, and nearly every other tangible product. Our current economy, culture, taxation, and educational system relies on us shedding the responsibility of producing these products. We are banking our future in the U.S. on everyone sitting in ivory towers creating new phenomenons and then convincing the world that they need them when often, they do not.
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We are not and will never be dependent on food and clothing, etc. We have the capacity to produce those things should we feel the need to and are, in fact, doing just that. Oil is a natural resource. We use more than we have. That is not at all the case with tangible products. Capital goes toward its most efficient use. So right now lots of manufacturing is done in China because goods can be produced and sold more cheaply. But we are not dependent on China for those things. We do depend on them to pay for W's spending, however. That is something you need to worry about. Where T-shirts are made is not an issue.