While that is true, I've worked in manufacturing environments with high tech equipment. This manufacturing equipment is so sensitive it gets covered with tarp d

While that is true, I've worked in manufacturing environments with high tech equipment. This manufacturing equipment is so sensitive it gets covered with tarp during dog-and-pony shows. We are using equipment and techniques in the USA that other nations could only dream of implementing. Why do you think most airplane manufacturers are located in the USA? Don't you think an airline would buy aircraft engines from China if they could? Keeping America on the forefront of technology has its benefits. If we don't invest in cornering these technologies; our adversaries will. Unfortunately it's the same technology that has kept us in the middle east that's also been a forceful deterrent which safeguards all Americans.