I have a dream that American farmers, drillers, miners, industrialists, and manufacturers produce everything that American consumers need. I have a dream that anything worth building is built in America, that any job worth doing is done in America, and that anything worth buying can be found and shipped within the United States.
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Why did we allow ourselves to be convinced that Americans should make only a few select things and buy everything else from foreign markets? Why did we allow politicians and Wall Street investors to convince us that “free trade” requires slave labor from faraway lands? Why did we spend a century ensuring safer work environments and more dependable wages for our skilled tradesmen only to export those jobs to adversarial nations that care nothing about worker safety or providing above-subsistence standards of living? Why did we fight a Cold War in defense of freedom only to subsidize Chinese communism? Why do we regulate ourselves to death in the name of “fighting global warming,” while China and India inflict the worst environmental damage on the planet?
Prove these statements wrong: There is no worker on the planet more capable than an American. There is no nation of people more innovative than the United States. There is nothing that Americans import from other nations that Americans can’t discover, create, grow, or produce on their own. There is no country on the planet with more educational infrastructure than the United States. There is no country on the planet with a greater incentive to defend its way of life.
I believe that Establishment politicians and multinational investment firms sold us a bill of goods when they told us that “free trade” deals, such as the North American Free Trade Agreement, would provide American households greater prosperity. I believe that those politicians and Wall Street investors lied when they told us that the United States would become a “service economy” and that blue-collar workers would find personal fulfillment as customer service representatives, real estate agents, telephone operators, data technicians, and software coders. I believe that politicians and Big Ag corporations lie when they insist that only illegal aliens are willing to sweat in farm fields. I believe that politicians who ignore federal law by establishing “sanctuary cities” and NGOs that aid and abet human smuggling into the United States lie when they say that some jobs are “too dirty” for Americans to take. I believe Establishment politicians and Wall Street titans have spent fifty years lying to the American people about the kinds of jobs that Americans should do.
The economy of the United States did not surpass that of the United Kingdom until the third year of WWI in 1916. While the U.K. had been the engine for the global economy for two centuries, America held an inimitable distinction: No other country in the world had maintained higher rates of both intra- and inter-generational mobility. The American Experiment created an ideal environment for innovation, hard work, investment, and private ownership. Individual workers advanced up the economic ladder during their own lifetimes, and their children and grandchildren ascended even farther. In a few generations, farmers became tradesmen who became merchants who became bankers, lawyers, ministers, and politicians. Respect for private property and a rejection of European social castes made America a land of opportunity.
Since the creation of the Federal Reserve in a rigged Christmas vote in 1913, the American system has been upended. Bankers created a monopoly for themselves to manipulate the value of the American dollar. They, in turn, set the monetary system down a path toward inevitable decoupling from the gold standard. Dollar-printing (and government spending) decreased the value of personal savings and artificially juiced the currency-denominated value of homes, stocks, and other assets — effectively transferring wealth from the poorest Americans to the wealthiest. As inflation steadily kicked in, central bankers and corporation-controlled politicians looked for ways to limit the rising costs of American goods. They artificially increased demand for the dollar by linking it to oil revenues, offshored American manufacturing to low-wage or slave-wage foreign nations, decreased the quality of finished products, and replaced small businesses with a handful of multinational corporate monopolies. Each of these “band-aids” has preserved Wall Street’s internal mechanisms for generating profits, while destroying the engine of American ingenuity and the physical infrastructure of American industry, manufacturing, and real economic growth.
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The end result has been that — in charts and graphs — America has appeared to maintain an advanced economy that has consistently grown through the decades, even though its industrial towns have collapsed into rusty graveyards. If you separate the economy of the United States into two separate lines on a graph — one for Main Street businesses across the country and one for multinational businesses running Wall Street — it becomes obvious that small American businesses have had no growth (or negative growth) for decades. While the costs of their raw materials, employees, government regulations, and taxes have continued to rise, their profits have dwindled. The engine of American growth in the real economy has been sputtering and dying, while artificially inflated valuations of Wall Street assets have been disguising America’s economic infirmity. Wall Street has become the Potemkin economy hiding America’s loss of industrial strength.
This is no way for a superpower to endure. The United States cannot survive if it is dependent on communist China for chemicals, medicines, circuit boards, electrical components, clothing, machinery, and furniture. The United States cannot survive if it is dependent on other nations for critical hydrocarbon energies (see economically impotent Europe as it struggles to survive both “green energy”-induced inflation and self-imposed sanctions on Russian oil and gas). More importantly, America cannot pass any industrial and manufacturing know-how to future generations if the living generations have no real skills worth preserving. Pretending that America can economically flourish on investment portfolios alone is delusional. “Let them be day traders,” is indistinguishable from, “Let them eat cake,” and will inevitably lead to the same bloody guillotine.
When people ask, “What is ‘America First’?” or, “What does ‘Make America Great Again’ actually mean?” or, “Why are President Trump’s tariffs important?” or, “Why should Americans learn to build things again?” the simple answer is this: Economic security is national security. We cannot defend ourselves from foreign enemies if we depend upon our enemies for critical resources. We cannot lift American citizens out of poverty if all the jobs have been exported overseas. We cannot be an innovative nation if our people don’t know how to build things with their hands. We cannot be a self-sufficient nation unless our people are willing to get sweaty and dirty. We cannot be a happy nation unless our people value hard work more than government handouts. We cannot be a nation dedicated to helping each other if we undermine the value of citizenship and community by flooding the country with illegal aliens. We cannot minimize inflation unless we minimize the inflationary effects of open borders on housing, food, and healthcare. We cannot be a wealthy nation if all the “wealth” is created through central bank funny money, tax-and-spend magic tricks, and Wall Street bailouts.
Like him, love him, distrust him, or despise him, President Trump is the first president in more than a century who understands what’s at stake. We either reorient ourselves back toward the American system that generated greater intra- and intergenerational social mobility than anywhere else in the world, or we accept that one day Wall Street’s multinational investment firms will succeed in bleeding this country dry. America will not prosper from open borders, welfare fraud, and central banking.
We must rededicate ourselves to making, building, and producing everything. Securing that future is how we make America great.
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