So, how did those stimulus checks work out for you?

[audiophile]

Excellent suggestions MW. I have suggested things similar the last two here before. I believe better product marking would be helpful. I sometimes can't find where things are made on the product, and it should be easy to spot.

[Deleted User 9015]

It would be uneconomical to produce everything we import domestically. The key is to ensure sufficient production capacity exists domestically to support goods critical for our economic survival and our national security.

Chip makers have begun construction of new plants both here in the U.S. and in eastern Asia, but those facilities probably won't be ready for production until 2024.

Your question is a great one and I have no good answer.

Components of a possible solution:
- Restrict access to domestic markets unless a certain percentage of product is manufactured here in the U.S.
- Create a national emergency stockpile of essential goods
- Dump the current federal corporate income tax in favor of a border adjustment tax
- Remove as much red tape as practicable to allow for re-use of dormant or abandoned manufacturing sites.

These are decent ideas, but they seem like they are aimed at manufacturing and are contingent on the U.S. having a workforce prepared for those manufacturing jobs. One of the reasons that businesses in the U.S. have moved to Asia is that workers are prepared for the more complex manufacturing jobs that exist today.

https://redshift.autodesk.com/upskilling-employees/

[MWmetalhead]

Yes - vocational / skilled trades training needs to be part of a solution. LEGAL immigration can be utilized to help fill employment needs, too.

In some professions, human resource availability is certainly a constraint.