Just asking...

[cksmithy]

5. It is always about money and cost to do business.

It became cheaper to manufacture out of the country and then pay shipping costs to bring product back to the usa. When businesses did this, the only alternative was to have to pay the higher minimum hourly wage at the time (compared to China or Vietnam), which would of helped people of the us. They couldn't do that, they had to make more and more money. When this happened years ago, people talked about how the us was turning into a service economy, think, fast food worker, customer service departments, bank tellers, house keepers, gardner's, and not a manufacturing country. I'm old, the town I grew up in had a Firestone tire factory, a Smucker's jelly/jam factory, Nestle's or some candy factory and a Spreckles's Sugar factory, where high school graduates could get a good job. That was back in the 1950's to late 1970's. All gone now.