You're right but it's a little late now that we've sent all our manufacturing elsewhere.
Like many of our most serious problems, the political elites on both sides of the aisle worked together to screw ordinary Americans. Republicans liked the idea of making stuff using cheap foreign labor. Screw the unions. Democrats regard manufacturing as dirty and an environmentla disaster under the best of circumstances. so they were only too happy to see it go, particularly if a communist country would prosper at our expense.
