The Makers Rant

What “we” did to ourselves is a friggin’ tragedy of epic proportions — one of the stupidest things a country ever did to itself.

The guilty “we” should be hunted down and shamed. It was short-term, short-sighted greed that got us here.

If you're reading this, we might be preachin’ to the choir. You might be part of the not-guilty “we” — the ones who saw it happening, hated it, and couldn’t do a damn thing about it.

We gave away our national security — and the future of every generation coming up — when we shipped our manufacturing overseas. Not just the factories. The whole ecosystem: the design shops, the tool-makers, the prototypers, the supply chains, the know-how.

Have you noticed the explosion of new products coming from the countries we handed our manufacturing muscle to? That should be US!

Some of our kids might actually want to make stuff, instead of becoming Internet “personalities”. But they're crippled by the empty hole the idiots left behind. For most of our younger generations, creating physical things isn't even on the radar.

That's the part nobody talks about. Offshoring didn't just kill jobs and defense capacity. It erased the world where a young person with an idea could walk it down the street and turn it into a real, physical product.

It erased the future you didn't know you had.

America has the size, the resources, the talent — and more importantly, the Duty and Obligation to itself and its citizens — to be economically, industrially, and militarily self-sufficient.

No excuses.