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If the US is willing to import many more low-skilled workers, then I would agree it's a great idea. Absent that, with a 4% unemployment, then the pigeon hole principle makes it difficult. Open to proposals about how it could be done without significant downside.


> Open to proposals about how it could be done without significant downside.

That's a policy straitjacket: a demand that strategic and necessary things can be done only if there's no downside for some privileged group.

If the US doesn't want to be a weak-ass paper tiger, it needs the capability to mass-produce consumer electronics (a civilian capability that can be redirected for military purposes, if needed). That will likely require trade offs.

Let's employ fewer people in the sandwich-assembly industry and more people assembling electronics.


> If the US is willing to import many more low-skilled workers, then I would agree it's a great idea.

Bring back slavery to the USA. :-)




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