And just to follow up to my self.. There’s a huge array of things that admittedly might be designed here but are manufactured elsewhere. Every large-cap company in the United States is a multinational. If the ‘close the borders’ crowd ever got enough idiots in congress, the very next day they’d have to deal with the realization that things like jet engines are suddenly impossible to fix, many computer components are impossible to replace, a lot of scientific equipment can be designed but not acquired repaired or replaced. Most of our retail stores would empty themselves without replacements, and with no inventory to sell, they’d close. Consumer confidence would be destroyed, so those factories you might think, Bob, that would spring up to fill the needs of the US, they’re too busy either trying to adjust to the huge supply shock or closing their doors as the elite businessmen and woman of the country flee to other countries not run by idiots so that they can make money elsewhere. And because there would be no demand for their stuff, since, well, like I said, retail stores would close years before the capital stock of the country could retool for such purposes.

Not to even mention the number of high-paying highly trained professionals that would have to be retasked to menial factory labor to replace the untrained automaton Chinese that were doing our dirty work for next to free beforehand.

all in all, yep, great plan “Bob”.