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Originally Posted by Charlatan
It's just not practical.
What is your market going to do for the materials it requires to make computers (some elements can only be found outside the US), what about things you've grown used to like bananas?
What will the buying public do when prices have to go way up because the manufacturers can't keep prices low by exploiting cheap labour outside the US?
The cost of living in the US would skyrocket.
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It might not seem practical, but between the econemy continuing to be in a slump, jobs going overseas, our frightening reliance on energy and goods from outside the US, we need to learn to be self reliant in case of an emergency. What if terrorists bombed oil distributers in the Middle East? We'd have to rely on Alaska, Canada, Central America, and the Soviet States (what are they called now?) for our oil, all of which cost a lot more. We'd be in serious trouble. Reserves in the US for oil are a joke compared to our usage. If we were to learn how to use the energy available to us, wind, hydro, solar, biofuels, nuclear, hydrogen, all in congruence with each other, we could breath a sigh of relief and no longer persue oil interests globally. I'd be willing to sacrafice bananas if it meant stabilization and the ability to be self reliant in an emergency. We are stretched too thin.